Review: Gibson’s robotic, self-tuning guitar is expensive but feels impressive

Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar

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Customizing electric cars for cost-effective urban commuting

WASHINGTON - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have come up with a novel approach of customizing electric cars for cost-effective commuting.

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Russia to provide Venezuela with technology ranging from robotics to biochemistry

Venezuela, Russia to boost technology cooperation

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Researchers operate biomedical robots from different locations worldwide via Internet

WASHINGTON - Experts from the University of Washington and SRI International have jointly developed a new software protocol, to standardize the way biomedical robots are managed over the Internet.

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New laws for responsible robotics may soon replace Asimov’s robo guidelines

WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots.

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Astronauts turn attention to robot arm, social networking, storage outside space station

Space station astronauts use robot arm, go Twitter

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts inside the international space station on Tuesday used robotic arms to move a storage pallet holding equipment for three experiments from the belly of the docked space shuttle Endeavour to the outside of the orbiting outpost's Japanese-made lab.

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Space and robotics technology used to improve forest planning and harvesting

WASHINGTON - Space and robotics technology have been combined to develop an advanced Precision Forestry Positioning System, which allows more efficient forest planning and harvesting.

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5 Cute Robot Pets

robot petsRobots are taking revolutionary roads of progress. Even some years before a robot used to look like an ugly machine that can walk and talk in a machine language (literally). But now, we have robo world cups for football. Robots are selling coffee in the streets of NY and etc. While the progress in robotic terms have always eluded us, Gadgetophilia has caught up with the flow with different robot- related articles in a regular basis.This time, on a rather cuter note, they present to you the best of pet robots.
As Gadgetophilia says,

As your companion, it won’t betray you, won’t divorce you, won’t die, won’t fall asleep when you want to talk, and they won’t even eat the favorite food out of your refrigerator.

Don't you agree to that? here is a sneak peek:

  1. Pleo : The pet dinosaur
  2. Paro : The pet seal robot
  3. Aibo : The intelligent dog
  4. Dacky : The healing partner
  5. PaPeRo : The companion

Read: Top 5 Pet Robots.

Now, an ‘elegant’ robotic hand that can gently grasp a raw egg

WASHINGTON - Undergraduate students at Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory have made a robotic hand that can gently grasp a raw egg as successfully as the machine holds a heavy can of food.

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Iron Man-like exoskeleton designed to help disabled move

WASHINGTON - A Japanese robotics company called Cyberdyne has designed an Iron Man-like exoskeleton to help people with weak muscles or disabilities move.

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