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IREX 2009 PICTURES: Japan's Amazing New Robots On Display (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Deep Sea Robot Investigating Climate Change

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

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

Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 05.25.2011 | Green
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Levi Novey

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 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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 05.25.2011 | 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 05.25.2011 | 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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Robot-clad Professor Heckles Bill Clinton At Iowa Campaign Stop

T.M. Lindsey | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Japan Looks to a Robot Future

AP | HIROKO TABUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Bill Clinton Heckled By 'Robot'

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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