Robot glider harvests ocean heat
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A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the oceans is tested by US scientists.
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Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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Game animator I-Wei Huang is getting rave reviews for his steam-powered robots. How does he hack RC kits with steam engines? And will he ever make a rideable robot? By Griffin Wright.
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It&#039;s one of the greatest challenges for robotics engineers: Building a machine that actually walks like one of us.
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Several research teams are developing robots made of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms to perform a broad variety of tasks. The bots are to be used in space missions and in search-and-rescue efforts. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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America's favorite deep-sea sponge is coming to the surface.
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Researchers are working on autonomous robots that eat to produce energy. The problem right now is that batteries are much better. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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German researchers claim they have figured out a way to use body heat to generate power that could eventually run mobile devices.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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A robot that can fly "like a  mini-helicopter" and a second that can glide across ice will  aid Chinese scientists during an Antarctic expedition slated  for October, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
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Geoengineering experts reveal plans to tackle global warming with fields of crops that reflect sun's heat
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Pentadyne twirls weights in the air, and it makes electricity.
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Telerobotic surgery performed in zero-gravity environment holds promise for  medicine in space and on the battlefield.
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PITTSBURGH - It could be called a mechanical miracle - a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs...
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the sun is hot, so harvest the heat to make ice cubes.
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The gutter-wrenching Looj remote-control robot gets rid of wet leaf build-up.