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Video: Simon the Robot Can Tell When It's Being Ignored, And Try To Get Your...

Simon Says Excuse me. Um, hello? Look at me, please. Stop ignoring me! via YouTube A new robot can tell when it's being ignored, and it politely and subtly gets a person's attention. Researchers say...

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Workers at Japanese Nuclear Plant Finally Get A Robot Assistant

Monirobo Asahi Shimbun Finally, some news that Japan is actually using its rescue robots. The red Wall-E-esque 'bot seen here is on the scene at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to a...

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Video: Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters Hold Their Own At Tennis

Quadrocopters are already accomplished piano players and Kinect-assisted navigators. Now they are playing tennis.ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena hosted a quadrocopter tennis match, involving a...

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Video: New Creepy, Customizable and Cheap Spider-Bot Stomps Along On Six Legs

Hexapod Spider-Bot via Robots Dreams Meet KMR-M6, a new arachnid-like robot from Japanese manufacturer Kondo Robot that you can own for just under $900. It scurries around like a curious spider,...

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Video: An Industrial Robot Made Entirely of Legos Sorts 48 Items Per Minute

The Lego Quad Delta Robot System As industrial robots go, Chris Shepherd's Quad Delta Robot System is decidedly awesome. It's not so much that it produces something particularly amazing--it doesn't....

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Perfect for a Hot Day: A Robot That's Also a Beer

CanBot Robots are cool because they're robots. But a robot is ice cold when it's also a beer. Ron Tajima has created exactly this: a robot surreptitiously disguised as a beer. The only thing we can...

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Video: Automatic Butcherbot Debones 1,500 Whole Chickens Per Hour

Mayekawa Chicken Deboner DigInfo The fastest human butchers can fully debone about 150 chickens per hour. That's a lot of chickens! But the new Mayekawa Automatic Chicken Deboner easily bests it,...

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Video: DARwIn-OP Wants Tecate, Not Bud Light

Mine. All Mine Trossen Robotics Among beer-grabbing robots, DARwIn-OP is apparently pretty particular. In repeated tests, it shuns Bud Light in favor of Tecate.In the video below, programmers at...

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Video: Wall-Climbing, Base-Jumping Robot Hurls Itself From Buildings

Base-Jumping Bot Having climbed up the building along a red carpet, Paraswift base jumps to the ground, where ETH Zurich engineers waited with a safety net. via YouTube A new base-jumping robot can...

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Video: Watch BigDog, PopSci's Favorite Quadruped Bot, Romp and Grow Through...

BigDog at the Beach via YouTube The proud roboticists at Boston Dynamics compiled a nice new video featuring the greatest highlights from the life and times of BigDog, to whom PopSci first introduced...

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Video: You Can Buy This Anime-Inspired Yet Very Human-Like Robotic Head

Meka's S2 Anime-Inspired Robotic Head San Francisco-based Meka Robotics wants to make robots that are human-safe and human-scale, but their new S2 humanoid head is more anime than animal. And that's...

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Remotely Operated Via Kinect, Handy Robot Cleans Your House

Kinect-Controlled Robo Maid A Kinect-controlled teleoperated robot can serve as a remotely controlled household servant. DigInfo TV A new household servant robot made by the world's largest...

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Meet Your New Robot Receptionist, the DARPA ARM 'Bot

Recepto-Bot DARPA Bad news for long-term receptionists: DARPA's ARM (Autonomous Robotic Manipulation) robot can perform a whopping 18 different reception-ready tasks, from stapling to answering the...

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Video: Herb the Robot Butler Microwaves Your Dinner For You

Dinner is Served CMU Robotics They can fetch sandwiches just fine, but robots can have a hard time cooking meals, with proper pancake flipping a serious and daunting challenge. So why not have them...

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18-Foot-Wide Rideable Robot Named Stompy Gets Funded on Kickstarter

Stompy the Giant Rideable Robot Project Hexapod Project Hexapod, based in Somerville, MA (just outside Cambridge), just passed their requested $65,000 funding on Kickstarter, which is great, because...

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Perfect for a Hot Day: A Robot That's Also a Beer

Robots are cool because they’re robots. But a robot is ice cold when it’s also a beer. Ron Tajima has created exactly this: a robot surreptitiously disguised as a beer. The only thing we can see wrong...

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Video: Automatic Butcherbot Debones 1,500 Whole Chickens Per Hour

The fastest human butchers can fully debone about 150 chickens per hour. That's a lot of chickens! But the new Mayekawa Automatic Chicken Deboner easily bests it, masterfully breaking down a whopping...

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Video: DARwIn-OP Wants Tecate, Not Bud Light

Among beer-grabbing robots, DARwIn-OP is apparently pretty particular. In repeated tests, it shuns Bud Light in favor of Tecate.

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Video: Wall-Climbing, Base-Jumping Robot Hurls Itself From Buildings

A new base-jumping robot can climb vertical walls, flip open a parachute and jump off, parasailing to the ground while capturing video of the trip. It’s the first compact robot that can both climb and...

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Video: Watch BigDog, PopSci's Favorite Quadruped Bot, Romp and Grow Through...

The proud roboticists at Boston Dynamics compiled a nice new video featuring the greatest highlights from the life and times of BigDog, to whom PopSci first introduced you five years ago. From robot...

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