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Canadian Man Excavates His Basement Using R/C Trucks Over 7 Years!

Written by: Aaron Saenz 4 days ago

Basement RC excavation feature

One man’s incredible hobby is another man’s vision of the future. Since June of 2005, farmer Joe Murray has been [...]

Robots

A Vintage Toy Robot Website For The Nostalgic Nerd In All Of Us

Written by: Peter Murray 6 days ago

You remember SH Horikawa Gear Robot, don't you?

There’s nothing like vintage toys to take us back to days gone by, and there’s nothing like vintage robot toys [...]

Robots

Special FX Guru Aaron Sims Unveils ‘Archetype’ – New Short Film on Robots With Memories

Written by: Aaron Saenz 10 days ago

ARCHETYPE-interrogation

What good is a killing machine that’s developed a conscience? In Aaron Sims‘ exciting new short film Archetype, RL7 is [...]

Robots

The Era of Robotic Warfare Has Arrived – 30% of All US Military Aircraft are Drones

Written by: Aaron Saenz 14 days ago

Predator drone firing hellfire missile feature

Some herald it as the cure for terrorism, others deride it as mindless video game warfare, but few doubt that [...]

Robots

Boston Dynamics Takes Alpha Dog Military Robot Out For Its First Walk

Written by: Peter Murray 14 days ago

DAPRA released a video of the LS3 Alpha Dog as it conquers a woody hillside. More intensive testing is to begin this summer.

First there were porters, then beasts of burden, then mechanized vehicles. And now we’re back to beasts of burden – [...]

Robots

Flying Robotic Swarm of Nano Quadrotors Gets Millions of Views, New Company

Written by: Aaron Saenz 18 days ago

KMel Nanoquadrotors feature

These acrobatic robots can launch themselves through rings, duck and weave around obstacles, and even fly through your bedroom window. [...]

Robots

eye3: The Robotic Copter That You Can Afford

Written by: Peter Murray 23 days ago

eye3 copy

UPDATE: Kickstarter has cancelled funding for eye3 due to delayed deliveries, skepticism that the drone will actually work and suspicion [...]

Robots

iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

Written by: Peter Murray 28 days ago

iRobot CEO, Colin Angle, with AVA.

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]

Robots

Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 29 days ago

The gangly Agile Justin, ready to toss a ball to its robotic twin Rollin' Justin.

Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]

Robots

CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!

Written by: Frank Tobe 30 days ago

beiber-ces-2012

CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, [...]

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Ripsaw and Riptide – High Speed Tanks Rampage Across Land and Water

Written by: Aaron Saenz 35 days ago

ripsaw

For more than a century the tank has been a centerpiece of war – the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut that brought [...]

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Is 2012 The Year That Robot Applications Take Root?

Written by: Frank Tobe 50 days ago

robots-app-store

In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. [...]

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Robots Patrol South Korean Prisons at Night

Written by: Aaron Saenz 50 days ago

korea prison robot

The South Korean Ministry of Justice announced that they would be adding three new security guards to a prison in [...]

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Aren’t we already innudated by previous alien singularity fields? Why not?

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gahlinger

We are indeed 'innudated' by aliens -- perhaps this undefined term is perfect to describe the equally undefined nature of these singularity fields.

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Matthew

to clarify; i agree that absurd was not the best word choice. no scientific question is absurd, no matter how irrelevant or inapplicable it seems. even if [...]

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IvoryTowerScientist

I can not help but think if singularity-level civilizations had come to Earth and seen human civilization in the past ten thousand years they might have stepped [...]