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A group of flying robots construct a 20-foot-tower, from beginning to end

A group of flying robots construct a 20-foot-tower, from beginning to end | Science News | Scoop.it
Remember that autonomous swarm of drones that built a 20-foot-tall indoor tower in Orléans, France? The FRAC Centre has now released a start-to-finish reel of the quadrotors completing the tower.
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The Future: Where Sexual Orientations Get Kind of Confusing | The Crux | Discover Magazine

The Future: Where Sexual Orientations Get Kind of Confusing | The Crux | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
Living World | sexual orientation | Sex, a biological function of reproduction, should be simple.
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Soft-bots: Research challenges traditional image of robotics

Soft-bots: Research challenges traditional image of robotics | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- What do you think of when you hear the word “robot”? If you’re like most folks, you probably imagine something like Gort from “The Day the Earth Stood Still” — a lumbering metal machine designed to resemble a human.
Caelin Thomas's curator insight, March 26, 2015 8:52 AM

This article outlines how robots can be a much softer materials than metals. These robots are controlled by small compressed air. They are hopped to be used in helping after an earthquake to clean up rumble and other material.

Caelin Thomas 

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Chinese Company Continues Plan To Replace Workforce With 500,000 Robots | Singularity Hub

Chinese Company Continues Plan To Replace Workforce With 500,000 Robots | Singularity Hub | Science News | Scoop.it

How to deal with the rising cost of running your factory? Get rid of all those inefficient humans and hire robots instead. Citing labor shortage and rising wages Hon Hai, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, recently announced that it intends to build a robot-making factory and replace 500,000 workers with robots over the next three years.

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Nao robots practicing tai chi

Tai chi practice by UJI Nao humanoid team...

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20 Nao Robots Perform Synchronized Dance

20 Nao Robots Perform Synchronized Dance | Science News | Scoop.it
Watch as a group of 20 robots strut their stuff. While this robotic dance troop isn't world-class, they probably dance better than you do.
Alexander Bratton's curator insight, February 21, 2014 2:51 PM

20 Nao robots can do a synchronized dance

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Do Plants Have Minds? : NPR

Do Plants Have Minds? : NPR | Science News | Scoop.it
There is good evidence that plants exhibit signs of intelligent behavior. Is this because they are robots?
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EPFL robots will soon appear in school classrooms

EPFL robots will soon appear in school classrooms | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss scientists have developed an educational robot designed to introduce children to technology in schools. Baptized Thymio II, it was officially presented to teachers in the Canton of Vaud last friday.

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Liquid Robotics launches quartet on epic swim across Pacific

Liquid Robotics launches quartet on epic swim across Pacific | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Four self propelling robots, called Wave Gliders,from the company Liquid Robotics were launched last week from San Francisco for a 33,000 nautical mile journey. The robots took off from the St.

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Giant Robot Dinosaurs from Japan

The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan has created some incredible new robot dinosaurs that can actually walk around. ...
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NASA flies Robotic Lander prototype to new heights

NASA flies Robotic Lander prototype to new heights | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.
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NASA - NASA Flies Robotic Lander Prototype to New Heights

NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal.
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Montpellier team turns tables on robot-human interactions (w/ video)

Montpellier team turns tables on robot-human interactions (w/ video) | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots have entered a newer phase of serving, not obeying. for use in medical settings. Chapter one in robotics history encouraged a perception of clever little machines skating around with the mission to obey a human's commands.
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Domestic robots: Harmony on the homefront?

Domestic robots: Harmony on the homefront? | Science News | Scoop.it
Are robots welcome in our homes? A qualitative study done at EPFL has revealed some interesting possibilities. Only one out of three households thinks automatic vacuum cleaners are worth the investment.
Ricky Phan's curator insight, March 28, 2014 12:57 AM

Some many not like the idea of robots taking over household chores. In this text, families are given robot vacuum cleaners and only three out of the nine families liked this robot. This says that most families will not welcome the new domestic robots that will be later introduced into the modern world. There will be a major shift in the world when the time comes. 

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Robots Interact, Snub Humans - Discovery News

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Robots Interact, Snub HumansDiscovery NewsPlay has been a big piece of technology ever since the first video games, but robots haven't been in on the fun. Most robots are built for industrial.

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Army of the Future: Russian combat Robots

The US already has thousands of military robots and unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan. As for the prospect of killer robots stalking the battlefield Russia is...

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TUM robots 'Kinect' to sandwiches and popcorn

TUM robots 'Kinect' to sandwiches and popcorn | Science News | Scoop.it

A robotics team from the Technical University of Munich are now able to show an audience how their cuisine robots James and Rosie have graduated from a previously famous repertoire of sausages and pancakes to making salami and...

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Nao Robots - Thriller

A definitly too short Thriller-Spot "danced "by Nao Robots

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A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot | Singularity Hub

A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot | Singularity Hub | Science News | Scoop.it
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A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor?

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Rise of the Nature-Inspired Robots (Videos)

Rise of the Nature-Inspired Robots (Videos) | Science News | Scoop.it
Robots designed to mimic animals and insects are everywhere. TIME magazine weeds out the 10 most fascinating.

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Robots in reality

Robots in reality | Science News | Scoop.it
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that’s been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point of entry, the scout carefully navigates through a small opening.

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Robot transforms children’s playtime

Robot transforms children’s playtime | Science News | Scoop.it
For all the work that’s gone into developing educational media, even the most stimulating TV shows and games leave kids stationary.
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Insect cyborgs may become first responders: Search and monitor hazardous places

Insect cyborgs may become first responders: Search and monitor hazardous places | Science News | Scoop.it
New developments may lead to insects monitoring hazardous situations before humans are sent in. The principal idea is to harvest the insect's biological energy from either its body heat or movements.
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Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean

Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, November 17, four unmanned Wave Gliders left the coast of San Francisco and began a 300-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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Kilobots - tiny, collaborative robots - are leaving the nest (w/ video)

Kilobots - tiny, collaborative robots - are leaving the nest (w/ video) | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Kilobots are coming. Computer scientists and engineers at Harvard University have developed and licensed technology that will make it easy to test collective algorithms on hundreds, or even thousands, of tiny robots.
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