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More Robots to Manhandle Human Corpses
Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger more than ever hour after our work is never over. (Image courtesy FNSNF) Yes, if the prospect of corpse-eating warbots wasn’t enough, Swiss...
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Stuff from the Science Lab Roundup: Road Trip to FIRST
Did you know that some high schools give out a varsity letter in robotics these days? And that some schools send off their robotics teams to matches with a hearty pep rally? You get what you celebrate,...
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SFSL Podcast Roundup: Robots! Compost! Worms!
Remember these plant-loving robots from the sci-fi classic "Silent Running?" Click the image to get your own paper models of them. (e.parsley/Creative Commons) Like most males of my demographic, I’ve...
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All I Need to Control my Robot Army is a Kinect
It’s no secret I love Microsoft Kinect hacks — I’ve posted videos of some on here in previous blog entries. Now I’d like to include a pair I discovered while browsing other tech sites. The first I...
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Robots get more and more realistic – Here is a Geminoid “designed to look...
This robot is called Geminoid DK and looks remarkably realistic: This is from the first test of the Geminoid. The first hint of a smile triggers immediate response. The people laughing in the...
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Mind-blowing Video: Robot Boxers of Fact and Fantasy
Finish him! (unloveablesteve/Creative Commons) Anyone who has ever played “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots” knows that artificially intelligent machines exist to punch the bejesus out of each other for our...
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Elective Amputation and Robotic Hands
As doctors, scientists and engineers build better robotic prosthetics, some tricky ethical questions arise. One of those questions can be worded this way: Is it ethical to amputate a limb in order to...
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The Pooping Duck: Marvel of 18th Century Robotics
Inside the pooping duck. (Creative Commons/Spiff_27) Radiolab’s recent “A Clockwork Miracle” episode concerns a sixteenth-century mechanical monk, but Jad also briefly mentions the wonders of a robotic...
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Blow Your Mind: The Pooping Duck or When Robots Digest
The horror that is the cloaca bot(John Dalton/Creative Commons) Step right up and behold a marvel of 18th century robotics! See the Jacques de Vaucanson’s fabulous digesting duck, the clockwork miracle...
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Robot Humor: BigDog Walking Robot Parodied
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Boston Dynamics’s DARPA-funded BigDog robot quadruped is an amazing machine and allows us to imagine a future in which robotic walkers provide support on our streets...
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