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Buy A Custom Robot That Looks Just Like You (PHOTO)

Posted 12.14.2009 | Technology

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*See photo below* If you're wondering what to put on your wishlist for the holidays, here's a gift idea you might not have considered: your robot twi...

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International Robot Exhibition 2009: AMAZING New Robots On Display (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology

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Tokyo's 2009 International Robot Exhibition brought together hundreds of robot companies and institutes to show off their latest and greatest robot te...

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Einstein Robot 'Albert Hubo' Brings Physicist Back To Life (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology

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The famed physicist Albert Einstein may no longer be living, but his robotic double almost seems to bring the scientist back to life. The engineers...

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Skiing Robot Races Down Snowy Slope (VIDEO)

Posted 10.21.2009 | Technology

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This skiing robot, about the size of an eight year-old, uses real skis to ski down a snowy hill, and can even navigate a slalom course. Courchevel cou...

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Kick Back Tech: 7 Gadgets That Will Keep You Off Your Feet All Weekend

gizmodo.com | Posted 10.17.2009 | Technology

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On your feet all week? Maybe you just want to spend the next couple of days sitting on your ass. If you had these 7 gadgets, you wouldn't have to get ...

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Deep Sea Robot Investigating Climate Change

treehugger.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

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Crawling along the ocean floor at a rate of one meter per minute, it stops every few feet to collect information from the mud, including oxygen levels...

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The JusticeBot 9000

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.

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ROBO Cop: Recycling Wall-E Cleans Up The Streets of Italy (SLIDESHOW)

Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

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This real life robot called DustCart, created as part of the $3.9 million DustBot research program has been busy at work on the streets of Pecciolli, ...

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U.S. Department of Defense to Use Hummingbirds as Spies

Levi Novey | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

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Robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able to go without being detected and will look so realistic that people could easily be fooled.

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"IRON MAN" ROBOT SUIT Cyberdyne: HAL in 2009 (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

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Ever dream of being Iron Man? Well, that dream might not be as far fetched as you might think. Cyberdyne, a Japanese company founded Professor Sankai,...

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Walking, Talking Robot Will Make Debut At Japanese Fashion Show

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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TSUKUBA, Japan — A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to ma...

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WALL-E and The Fall of Man

Joshua David Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Entertainment

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Wall-E is hopefully the first herald that the studios (or at least the smart ones) have finally said, "Phooey on humans. Robots are where it's at!"

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Japan Looks to a Robot Future

AP | HIROKO TABUCHI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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TOKYO — At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fe...

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Robot-clad Professor Heckles Bill Clinton At Iowa Campaign Stop

T.M. Lindsey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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T.M. Lindsey

An unidentified robot heckled the former president, who was playing the surrogate role while stumping Hillary Clinton, at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus Monday night.

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Bill Clinton Heckled By 'Robot'

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Bill Clinton has dealt with his fair share of hecklers over the years, but on Monday night he faced off with his first robot. Or, more specifically, ...

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