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Lots of very stupid robots fighting in Afghanistan

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John Moe
Feb 8, 2011
Wired reports there are over 2,000 robots fighting in Afghanistan with real people forces - that's 1 robot for every 50 U.S. troops in the country....
Posted In: afghanistan, military, robots
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Google: Honeycomb big. Yeah yeah yeah. It's not small: No no no.

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John Moe
Feb 2, 2011
Google showed off its new Honeycomb operating system on Wednesday. It's for all those new tablet computers running on Android. They also announced...
Posted In: android, Google, robots
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Robot sports reporter

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John Moe
Nov 29, 2010
But how does he get grotesquely overweight and suck up to spoiled athletes if he's a robot? I'm sure they're working on that....
Posted In: business, robots, sorrow, Sports, Web Culture
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Chatbot takes on critics of climate change

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John Moe
Nov 3, 2010
Nigel Leck was sick of all the people on Twitter arguing that global warming isn't real. So, he made a program that would scan Twitter every five...
Posted In: climate change, robots, Science, social media, Twitter, Web Culture
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ROBONAUT TO THE MOON!

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John Moe
Nov 2, 2010
The plan to send a man back to the moon has been scrapped since at 150 billion dollars, that's just too expensive. But there's a rogue program...
Posted In: ROBONAUTS, robots, space
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Watch the next Mars rover being built

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John Moe
Oct 27, 2010
It's on UStream....
Posted In: NASA, robots, Science, Web Culture
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Guy gets robot to punch people a whole lot in the name of science

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John Moe
Oct 14, 2010
This. This I love. In Slovenia(!), a scientist has somehow persuaded six male colleagues to let a robot punch them repeatedly in order to build up...
Posted In: Entertainment, games, punching, robots, slovenia
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People who can't walk will be able to walk with E-Legs

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John Moe
Oct 8, 2010
Gadget stories can sometimes be tedious but not when the gadget allows people to walk. Berkeley Bionics unveiled E-legs at an event yesterday. It's...
Posted In: gadgets, Health, robots
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Robots programmed to deceive

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John Moe
Sep 10, 2010
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology* have created a robot capable of deception. They set up two bots in a game of hide and seek. Robot...
Posted In: domo arigato, robots
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Oil-eating swarm of robots

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Larissa Anderson
Aug 27, 2010
It's an MIT project called Seaswarm. Little robots drag around nano-fabric that can asborb 20 times their weight in oil.  These robots dragging...
Posted In: oil spill, robots

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