Fighting The Next War With Insects And Sharks

There is a long history of the use of the honey bee in war. Roman catapults, with bee hives as projectiles, unleashed the fury of angry bees on an advancing enemy. Bee hives booby trapped to topple over with trip...

BigDog: Military Packbot

This one was handballed to me by Truemors... BigDog, man's best friendbot may soon be joining US troops in the field, though there is still some work to be done. This quadruped pack-robot needs no obedience school,...

Pope Watched by Drones at Lourdes

The Pope is indeed watched from above, by eyes that never blink, by eyes that never sleep... eyes that belong to flying robots. "Aviation Week reports that Eagle-1 SIDM autonomous surveillance platforms orbited on...

Robots to teach kids how to read

Whatever happened to reading to and with our children as the main way for learning to read? Well in the UK the move to using phonics as the only system in some schools has led to some teachers being labled...

The robots with ‘emotions’ who like a cuddle and can recognise faces

"Heart Robot, who has been programmed to react ‘emotionally’, depending on how he is treated, has brought out the bully in many of the visitors to a science event."

Stock Trading Robot, Doubling Stocks

Marl just picks up Penny Stocks from a list. The price per share of this stock is also very less (in between 0.10 to 10$ etc). In general such stocks are highly volatile and they always trades with high volume so...

Robot Capital of America

Finally, a city that's getting with the whole 21st-Century thing: touting your city as most-liveable for humans is so played out... now, it's all about how robot-friendly your city is. Pitssburgh is laying claim to...

Soft, squishy, octopus like robots can change shape, size

Researchers are developing organic robots that will mimic the way octupuses move and use their bodies. They believe that within two years these organic machines will change robotics forever. This approach using...

Fish Explores Land with Robotic Vehicle

"Seth Weiner's art project is a vehicle called Terranaut. This interesting vessel is driven by the motions of a parrot cichlid in a fish bowl. A camera mounted above the tank tracks the fish's movement and relays that information to a computer, which then drives the robot in...

Giant Sea Snakes to Provide Electricity

Okay, so they're not really snakes, but they're longer than they are wide, and they live in the ocean... but the resemblance ends there. The Anaconda is a giant hydroelectric plant that generates power from passing...

World's first robotic barman could spell last orders for pub staff

Hey, I've been served by some barmen that could pass for automaton's not in that they were so fast but essentially just went through the motions, and that of course will be the problem with Mr. Asahi - no real smile,...

When The Job's Too Dirty, Send In The Robots

It's a dirty job, but somebot's gotta do it... Popular mechanics has a geektastic article about the robots that squeeze, crawl and creep into the nastiest and most dangerous spots in the working world. Bonus: they...

In 2050, your lover may be a ... robot

""I am talking about loving relationships about 40 years from now," David Levy, author of the book "Love + sex with robots", told AFP at an international conference held last week at the University of Maastricht in the south-east of the country. "... when there are robots...

New Robot Printer Can Replicate Itself

British researchers have invented something out of Star Trek: a printer that can print out plastic pieces of itself, that can be assembled into a complete unit...that can then print out pieces of itself. It's a...

Dance, Robots, Dance: Automated Music Personality

One problem with being a carbon-based lifeform is the imprecision of our dance moves, and our inability to provide our own lighting effects. However, that is now no longer an issue, as robots have been developed to...

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