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First Reported 5 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)

Robotic Spy Planes Go Green (LiveScience.com)

Special to LiveScienceLiveScience.com charles Q. Choispecial To LivescienceRobot spy planes are harnessing alternative energy to make them more covert and longer lasting than ever.Such drones could also find use in civilian life to help monitor the earth ... [Yahoo! News - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Fuel Cell, Robotics, Ion, Payload, Alternative Energy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

The Technology Student Association (TSA) and Innovation First International Announce a Partnership to Introduce a Signature Robotics Competition Using

The TSA VEX Robotics Competition will provide students with a hands-on co-curricular competition for learning about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and will complement the existing technology-related competitions offered by TSA. ... [Yahoo! Canada - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Robotics, Invention, Tony Norman, Greenville (Texas, United States), IFI

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Henry Ford

Obese patients no more likely to have post-operative complications after robot-assisted laparoscopic myomectomy

Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital.Myomectomy is a procedure that removes uterine ... [News-Medical.Net - 15 hours ago]

Entities: laparoscope, Obesity, Henry Ford, gynecologic, Robotics

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Robots Perform Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream has been updated for the 21st century with seven small robots playing fairies alongside carbon-based co-stars.Beyond being a cool thing to do, researchers saw bringing bots to the Bard as a chance to introduce robots to the public ... [Wired News - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Robotics, Robin Murphy, SEARCH AND RESCUE, Texas A&M University

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Is The Singularity Coming?

th, 2009 at 9:51 am by Rand Simberg and is filed under Technology and Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.2 Responses to “ ”Brock Says:Genuinely scary ... [Transterrestrial Musings - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Robotics, Ecosystem, Bill Joy, Species

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Peter Thiel Says Don't Piss Off The Robots (Or Bet On A Recovery)

Peter Thiel is best known as the guy who cofounded and ran PayPal before selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.Since then, he's founded a $2 billion hedge fund, Clarium Capital, and the Founders Fund, a venture fund with $275 under management. Peter ... [Business Insider - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, Robotics

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Robots.Txt and the .Gov TLD

I'm on the board of CommonCrawl.Org, a nonprofit corporation that is attempting to provide a web crawl for use by all. An interesting report just got sent to us about the use of robots.txt files within the .Gov Top Level Domain, a standard known as ... [O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Robotics, Nonprofit Corporation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

NASA 'Drops' Next Gen Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests

Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing MOON DAILY Another significant milestone for the was the successful hot-fire thruster testing of a candidate descent thruster at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., using technology developed ... [Space Daily - 11/19/2009]

Entities: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Robotics, Missile Defense, Danny Harris, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labora...

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Uruguay: Film About Robots Invading Montevideo

The locally produced short film called Panic Attack! created by Fede Alvarez shows the science fiction story of robots invading the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. The blog El Bachural [es] enjoyed the short because it showed his city in a different ... [Global Voices Online - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Montevideo (Uruguay), Robotics, Uruguay

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Robotic Surrogate Takes Your Place at Work

Robotic Surrogate Takes Your Place at Work Having one of those days where even a hearty bowl of Fruit Loops and Jack Daniels can't get you out of bed? A telepresence robot can come into the office for you, elevating telecommuting to a decidedly new ... [Scientific Blogging - Culture - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Robotics, Jack Daniels

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

UK Afghanistan Forces to get Dragon Runner Robots

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a contract to QinetiQ for the provision of 100 Dragon Runner robots to help forces in Afghanistan deal with dangerous jobs such as disarming roadside bombs.The lightweight, rugged and easy-to-operate Dragon ... [Army Technology - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Robotics, Afghanistan, Net Resources International

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents (in AI & Robotics)

Fly Away

Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless and transcendent.Amy Hopper, ... [Gizmodo - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Robin Murphy, Robotics, Texas A&M University

Quotes

Commenting on the announcement, Gary Guthart, President and COO of Intuitive Surgical, said, "We are pleased with the Ministry of Health's decision to grant Shonin approval for the da VinciVinci S Surgical System. This approval has been a long process for Intuitive, and we are happy to be one step closer to bringing our products to market in Japan. Our focus will now shift toward satisfying the trade and importation requirements necessary for commercialization and to obtain appropriate reimbursement for da Vinci procedures in Japan."

da Vinci Approved in Japan - Zibb.com [Zibb - 3 hours ago]

"With UAVs, we are dealing with relatively small fuel cells of 500 watts," Swider-Lyons explained. "It is hard to get custom, high-quality fuel cell membranes built just for this program. So we are riding along with this push for technology from the automotive industry."

Robotic Spy Planes Go Green (LiveScience.com) [Yahoo! News - 3 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Robots.Txt and the .Gov TLD [O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - 2 hours ago] I'm on the board of CommonCrawl.Org, a nonprofit corporation that is attempting to provide a web crawl for use by all. An interesting report just got sent to ...
Uruguay: Film About Robots Invading Montevideo [Global Voices Online - 11/19/2009] The locally produced short film called Panic Attack! created by Fede Alvarez shows the science fiction story of robots invading the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. ...
Geek boys, pet dinosaurs and the ‘thing’ of the... [FeistyFemale - 11/19/2009] Hanging around with geek boys can be an experience… When Sean first mentioned that he had ordered a pet dinosaur, I practically rolled my eyes, grabbed my gym bag ...
Robots Perform Shakespeare [Wired: Autopia - 11/18/2009] A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been updated for the 21st Century with seven small robots playing fairies alongside carbon-based co-stars. Beyond being a cool thing ...
Today Only: Zombie Vampire Robots Shirts [Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome - 11/18/2009] If you're not familiar with shirt.woot, congratulations, and welcome to the internet. There's lots of stuff in this series of tubes, including, and virtually ...

Audio/Video

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Zhu Zhu Robotic Hamsters Sell Out at Walmart, T... [Bloomberg - YouTube - 11/14/2009]
Raw Video: Laser Robots in Space Competition [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/05/2009]
Vision guided forklift BCIT Mechatronics and Ro... [BCIT- YouTube - 11/04/2009]
Rubiks cube solver BCIT Mechatronics and Roboti... [BCIT- YouTube - 11/04/2009]
Robot with Conveyor BCIT Mechatronics and Robot... [BCIT- YouTube - 11/04/2009]

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