DARPA's 8-Task Obstacle Course for Robots is No Joke
We've got a few months yet until December, when DARPA will hold their 2013 Robotics Challenge, but that hasn't stopped the MIT team from releasing an "unboxing" video of their Atlas robot, delivered from Boston Dynamics. And while we had a chuckle at …
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Volkswagen Turns Robotic Arms Into Production Assistants
The car manufacturing group Volkswagen has integrated an industrial robotic arm from Denmark's Universal Robots to collaborate directly with employees at a Volkswagen plant in Salzgitter Salzgitter Germany. This is the first collaborative robot in use …
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Robots test Puget Sound for shellfish toxins
Two seafaring robots have been busy at work in the Puget Sound this summer, searching for toxic algae and bacteria growths that could contaminate seafood. Robotic sensors have been placed in the water in Samish Bay and Lummi Bay and are being tested …
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Bay Area techies hack Legos in a very goofy robot showdown
Lego's new line of EV3 Mindstorms robots are fun; too much fun for kids to have all the action. Imagine a Lego kit equipped with a tiny programmable computer and other supplies you need to bring life to any toy brick creation. So Lego gave employees at …
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Fast-food fight: Living wage or invitation to robots? Twitter debates
Robots! cried one ad. On Twitter, a range of wage earners threw in their two cents — from one man who says he makes $ 10 an hour to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose salary in 2010 was $ 223,500. See some highlights from the Twitter fight below.
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