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President Obama,  in remarks today about the importance of a solid education in Science and Math, tipped his hand on national defense – Nationa read more »
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Spirit, one of the two rovers currently on Mars, has been stuck in the sand for about six months now, and the prognosis is not great. After months of read more »
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This FANUC robot has an immensely satisfying job: it sorts candy (they say pills, but it looks like candy to me) into little jars by color, and then read more »
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To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette (Peko) Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one read more »
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This article, from Israel’s Yediot Acharonot newspaper, is titled “‘A Vacuum Cleaner Captured a Snake.” It looks like “ read more »
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GetRobo has the scoop on a presentation made by Toyota executives entitled “Realization of Moon Exploration Using Advanced Robots by 2020.̶ read more »
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Bandit here is a sort of friendly, sort of scary robot designed to help you exercise. And I mean, that’s what you want in a personal trainer, r read more »
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The latest episode of the Robots podcast interviews two
experts in robot learning. Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech stud read more »