Robotics

ResearchMoz: Military Ground Robot Market Will Reach $12.3 Billion By 2018
MarketWatch (press release)
Military ground robots promise to provide the core technology for management of conflict as strict nationalism in military matters is being replaced by the new era of terrorist threats. Military robot are used globally. Growth comes as the nature of ...
Military ground robot markets at $3.4 billion in 2011 are anticipated to reach ...Virtual Press Office (press release)

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Franklin deputies put new robot to work on submerged car
Bellingham Herald
MESA -- Just days after buying a search-and-rescue robot to help in drowning cases, Franklin County sheriff's deputies put the remote-controlled device to work on a call for a submerged vehicle. The robot, called SARbot, quickly revealed Friday that no ...

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Southborough robotics team gearing up for competition
MetroWest Daily News
For the second year rolling, the school's robotics team will enter a robot in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) regional robot competition — but it won't stop there. Bolstered by its strong showing last year, ...

Technabob (blog)
Harvard Makes Robot Bees [VIDEO]
Mashable
Why build robot insects? The new mass-production technique is a huge step forward in constructing high-power switches, optical systems and electromechanical devices. Earlier bug prototypes were carefully built by the researchers with glue and by hand, ...
Robot Insects Spring to LifeAstrobiology Magazine (press release)
Miniature bee-drones made from pop-up-book-style fabricationBoing Boing
Mobee Robot Bees to Patrol the Skies of Our NightmaresTechnabob (blog)
Wired News -Fellow GEEK -Digitaltrends.com
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Drones in Afghanistan, Drones in … Akron?
New York Times
The trick for drone advocates will be to harness the potential of drones without frightening or offending American civilians. It's crucial that we place clear limits on the use of drones to collect information about citizens.

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Telegraph.co.uk
How two monkeys, two chimps and a robot made Mercury possible
DVICE
We probably wouldn't call this "crewman simulator" a robot today, but it was intended to do just about everything a human would do short of controlling the spacecraft itself. It breathed, turning oxygen into carbon dioxide and water at a rate similar ...
John Glenn Frustrated on 50th Anniversary of Friendship 7ABC News

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Columbia Daily Tribune
Former US diplomat to speak on military drones at MU
Columbia Daily Tribune
Ann Wright, a former State Department official who helped reopen the US Embassy in Afghanistan in 2001, said soldiers are being trained to "commit acts of extrajudicial killing through drones" at Missouri's Whiteman Air Force Base, and she finds the ...
Peace activist Ann Wright to speak at MSU WednesdaySpringfield News-Leader

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Mobile Magazine
French robot Romeo displays a creepy kind of love for humans
DVICE
A couple of years ago we introduced you to a concept humanoid robot from France called Romeo. Now that concept has finally been turned into a working prototype, and it's making its first robo-baby steps into our hearts...sort of.
Romeo robot greets the worldUbergizmo
Aldebaran Prepares to Introduce Romeo Helperbot to the WorldMobile Magazine
Aldebaran's Humanoid Robot Romeo On VideoiProgrammer

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New York Times (blog)
Drones May Set Off a Flurry of Lawsuits
New York Times (blog)
By SOMINI SENGUPTA | February 20, 2012, 1:28 pm Opening up the skies to the civilian use of drones in the United States is likely to lead to a number of new questions about surveillance by electronic means. Unmanned aerial vehicles can not only take ...
Drones come to the USWorld Socialist Web Site
Commercial Drones Could Soon Be OverheadKETV Omaha
SKY OPENS TO DRONES, PROMPTING CHEERS, CONCERNSU-T San Diego
ABC Online -The Independent Florida Alligator
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New York Times (blog)
Drones May Set Off a Flurry of Lawsuits
New York Times (blog)
By SOMINI SENGUPTA | February 20, 2012, 1:28 pm Opening up the skies to the civilian use of drones in the United States is likely to lead to a number of new questions about surveillance by electronic means. Unmanned aerial vehicles can not only take ...

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Forbes
Scientists Are Building Robot Dinosaurs Out Of 3-D Printed Fossils
Forbes
By pairing the 3-D printed fossils with robotics, scientists are able to test how dinosaurs actually moved when they roamed the Earth millions of years ago. “We don't know a lot about the way dinosaurs move,” Lacovara said in a press release.

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Thomaston High school's FIRST robotics team to compete next month
Foothills Media Group
James Brady, 16, foreground, works on Bob, the Operation PEACCE robot, in the industrial arts room of Thomaston High School. Kalyn Newmin, 17, of Bristol, watches in the background. THOMASTON — The next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates could be among students ...
Reveal the RobotsPatch.com
Robots playing basketball – only at a FIRST eventNashua Telegraph

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Commercial Drones Could Soon Be Overhead
KETV Omaha
Unmanned military drone aircraft have been a vital tool in the fight against terrorists in Afghanistan, but drones could soon fill the skies back here at home. Congress has directed the Federal Aviation Administration to open the airways for commercial ...

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ABC2 News
Robotics contest tests students' minds
Columbus Telegram
The unique competition was on display Saturday at Cross County Community School near Stromsburg, where 24 teams from 11 schools gathered to put their robot building, programming and controlling skills on the line. Started in 2006, VEX Robotics ...
Students prepare for Robotics CompetitionsABC2 News
Auburn High School club members prove to be Masters of machineryAuburn Citizen

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The Industrial Robot Revolution
Network World
And although the project's price tag - $2.5 billion - might seem staggering, it's a clear statement to the world that the future is in robotics. A message that is not lost here on Earth. According to the International Federation for Robotics (IFR), ...
Robotics expo helps equip children for the futureDaily Nebraskan
IFR: Robotics sales increased by 30% in 2011, exceeded forecastsVision Systems Design
2011 robot sales rise 30 percent over previous year, says IFROptoIQ

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Longview robotics team preparing for regional event in Portland
Longview Daily News
They're no longer eligible to be Rookies of the Year, but members of Longview's Bits and Bots robotics team have big plans for their second year of competition. They will demonstrate their work at an open house Monday at Mark Morris High School.

The Voice of Russia
Report: US drones flying over Syria to monitor crackdown
Haaretz
Pentagon officials say drones used to gather evidence to make case for international response; 40 Turkish intelligence officials captured in Syria, Assad regime claims Israel's Mossad trained them. The United States is flying unmanned reconnaissance ...
US drones conduct reconnaissance operations in Syrian skyThe Voice of Russia
Syria: US reconnaissance drones, Iranian warshipsHot Air
Officials: US drones monitoring clashes in Syriamsnbc.com (blog) (subscription)

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Report: US drones flying over Syria to monitor crackdown
Haaretz
Pentagon officials say drones used to gather evidence to make case for international response; 40 Turkish intelligence officials captured in Syria, Assad regime claims Israel's Mossad trained them. The United States is flying unmanned reconnaissance ...

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New York Knicks Sensation Jeremy Lin A Rousing Success For Harvard Robotics
The Spoof (satire)
Professor Roger Brockett, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983, says he and his students created Lin all those years ago with the hopes that he would one day go to medical school and become a surgical-assisting robot.

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Robotics squad aims at FIRST districts
Hometownlife.com
But when Plymouth-Canton's robotics team, FIRST Team 862 Lightning Robotics, heads to district competition at Kettering University March 2-3, they're taking his namesake, a robot named “Eddie,” with them. While “Eddie” carries with him the ...

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