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Chatbot takes on critics of climate change

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Search for artificial intelligence in space, not radio waves

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Larissa Anderson
Aug 23, 2010
Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomer Seth Shostak says instead of listening for radio waves and looking for biological signs...
Posted In: artificial intelligence, robots, SETI, space
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New robot eats and poops

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Jul 22, 2010
A new British robot called Ecobot III can survive for seven days at a time by consuming biomass and excreting waste. The article points out that it...
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Oscar the bionic cat

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Jun 25, 2010
Of course we're charmed by Oscar. More on him here. *
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