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  • Researchers build a robot you can’t knock down; Robot apocalypse begins

    By Kevin Lee | 09 May, 2012 03:09

    After all of our advancements in walking robots, we still have yet to see one that can pick itself back up. Current automatons either need to be helped back up or specifically designed to do so.

  • Scientist unveils mind-controlled robot

    By AAP | 26 April, 2012 09:46

    A professor at a Swiss university has unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported.

  • Flying robots play James Bond theme

    By AAP | 06 March, 2012 08:27

    A video shows flying robots darting through hoops, working together in swarms and even forming a band to play James Bond film theme music.

  • Cyborg plants render humans even more obsolete

    By Rachel Martin | 21 September, 2011 04:25

    The cyborg plant is not a new concept. The robot plant replacement is even less new: You can buy one for a price of $4.19 from ThinkGeek, after all. But a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich isn't interested in solar-powered plastic toys or surgically-altered self-lighting plants that hang on a wall (creepy!) -- they're giving plants the ability to feed, water, and sun themselves, by augmenting them with iRobot technology and wheels.

  • Robotic Herds Could Be the Next Step in Farming

    By Blair Hanley Frank | 01 March, 2011 12:39

    Fully autonomous herds of robots could be the future of farming, or at least that's what one roboticist thinks. Trossen Robotics forum member Vanmunch has developed an "Autonomous Micro Planter," which he's named Prospero.

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