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Meet Ember, the Littlest Warbot
http://ak.c.ooyala.com/ByMnUwYjqPoJ5z164p2h28QVKBxfjMBH/Ut_HKthATH4eww8X... Please enable Javascript to watch this video iRobot's multipurpose PackBot has helped lead the way among war-bots, disabling...
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iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze
Chembot iRobot iRobot, who brought us the Roomba and friends, have now devised a ball-shaped, undulating "chembot" under the auspices of -- who else -- DARPA. The lovable machine resembles something...
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New Army Bot Blasts Land Mines With a 150-Foot Bomb-on-a-String
Warrior iRobot's Warrior is capable of casting a line of explosives. via IEEE Spectrum PackBot, iRobot's longtime military robot, is getting some new cousins that just may be the most efficient...
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A Robot With Coffee-Filled Balloons For Hands Is The Best Grabber Yet
Robotic Mitt The robotic mitt conforms to the shape of the object it is lifting. John Amend, Cornell University The most dextrous, most careful and most useful robotic gripper is not a claw or a hand...
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Google Engineer Builds an Affordable DIY Telepresence Robot To Keep In Touch...
DIY Telepresence Robot ProcrastineeringJohnny Lee wanted a telepresence robot, but he didn't want to pay thousands of dollars for one. So he did what any good hacker would do: bought a netbook, bought...
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Video: Robots Finally Enter Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactor, Find High...
In Through the Out Door Tokyo Electric Power Co. Nudging open a door with its extendable arm, a bomb-disposal robot became the first robot to enter a reactor building at Japan's stricken Fukushima...
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A New Generation of Throwbots is Ready to Be Flung Into Battle
Throwable Robots Before hurling themselves into battle, soldiers now have a variety of tiny, toss-able reconnaissance robots they can hurl into hostile territory ahead of the troops. Recon Robotics...
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iRobot's 710 Warrior, Strong Enough to Tow a Car, is Finally Ready for the Field
iRobot's 710 Warrior iRobot We've been catching glimpses of iRobot's 710 Warrior ground robot at trade shows and in videos for something like 2 years now. We even saw a couple of pared down prototypes...
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Video: DARPA's Lightweight, Inflatable Robotic Arm Lifts Four Times its Own...
DARPA's Inflatable, Robotic AIR Arm via Danger RoomThe future of military robotics isn't all heavy metal and humanoid soldier-bots. If DARPA's newest warbot implement is any indication, the future is...
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The iRobot 110
The iRobot 110 Sam Kaplan The iRobot 110 FirstLook is the toughest, most maneuverable reconnaissance robot made. The five-pound robot is light enough to be thrown into action and sturdy enough to...
View ArticleVideo: The Latest From iRobot's Research Lab
http://ak.c.ooyala.com/NsdXcwYjogCx7d4BnduYT3kwOWVdIS1T/Ut_HKthATH4eww8X... Please enable Javascript to watch this video The nice folks at iRobot were kind enough to swing through our offices yesterday...
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FDA Approves First Robot For Hospital Use
Robo-Doctor Business Wire Robots are taking over the world. Robo-nurses have been around for a while, but in the quest to make healthcare more efficient, another medical robot could soon be coming to...
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Watch A Super-Dexterous Robot Hand Use Tweezers
A Robotic Hand Grasping A Battery iRobot Robots, while awesome, tend to be clumsy in unpredictable human environments. Machines that use hands as deftly as humans do, with only minimal direction,...
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Brazilian Government Invests In Robocops To Prep For World Cup, Olympics
iRobot 510 PackBot iRobot Brazil has a big couple of years coming up: the FIFA World Cup and the pope are both coming to Brazil in 2014, and the summer 2016 Olympic Games will be held in Rio. To...
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Creators Of Roomba To Sell A Telepresence Robot
Ava 500 iRobot Massachusetts-based iRobot (the company that makes the Roomba!) announced today that it's planning to sell a "telepresence" robot starting early next year.The Ava 500 will show video...
View ArticleVideo: Robots Finally Enter Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactor, Find High...
Nudging open a door with its extendable arm, a bomb-disposal robot became the first robot to enter a reactor building at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,…
View ArticleA New Generation of Throwbots is Ready to Be Flung Into Battle
"One time we dropped it out of a helicopter from more than 100 feet," one of the designers tells me. "The worst that happened was that one wheel was slightly damaged so it…
View ArticleiRobot's 710 Warrior, Strong Enough to Tow a Car, is Finally Ready for the Field
We've been catching glimpses of iRobot's 710 Warrior ground robot at trade shows and in videos for something like 2 years now. We even saw a couple of pared down prototypes deployed to Fukushima...
View ArticleVideo: DARPA's Lightweight, Inflatable Robotic Arm Lifts Four Times its Own...
The future of military robotics isn’t all heavy metal and humanoid soldier-bots. If DARPA’s newest warbot implement is any indication, the future is soft, lightweight, and…
View ArticleVideo: The Latest From iRobot's Research Lab
The nice folks at iRobot were kind enough to swing through our offices yesterday to demo some of the latest things coming out of their robotics research labs--which, from…
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