Real-Life Battlebots
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The U.S. Army has plans to let robots handle war's dirty work.
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In the past couple of years, robots have started to move around and work independently. Just don't expect them to look, walk and talk like C3PO in the Star Wars movies -- rolling and beeping like R2D2 is more like it.
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Israel rolls out a tiny, Uzi-toting robot. But what happens when the armed equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death occurs? In Danger Room. In Danger Room.
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A German art group reprograms old assembly-line robots to become autonomous artists. The machines draw, spin tunes and dance in public. The group wants to show that the industrial beasts can create beauty. By David Cohn.
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It's time for radical robomediation. Let's hand the service industry to automatons rather than transforming humans into reluctant machines. Commentary by Momus.
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As millions buy increasingly powerful cell phones, many companies are racing to develop video games to take advantage of the newfound portability. The newest twist is multiplayer: You can face real people in space battles or fishing tournaments.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surface on FCC Web site.
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From in-home surveillance robots to flying battle bots, WowWee is showing more than 20 new robots at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. Here's a sneak peek at the company's 2008 robot lineup.
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Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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The war in Iraq has proven the lethal effectiveness of roadside bombs. But the war has also proven the value of a new tool to deal with the bombs: small, agile robots that disarm or detonate the bombs at the direction of soldiers who operate the robots from a safe distance.
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.
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Our video-game enemies are smart - and getting smarter. The artificial intelligence that guides in-game characters today leads to far more natural actions and realistic friends and foes than in the past. &quot;As graphics improvements top out, artificial intelligence will (drive) game innovation,&quot; says University of California-Santa Cruz professor Michael Mateas. A look at  AI evolution:
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--Everyone knows someone like this: The guy who sits for hours, playing video games, his heart racing as he pummels animated bad guys with controller-driven automatic weapons.
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The shape-shifting robots of "Transformers" have taken on a new form: Huge piles of cash.
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To join DARPA airship-bot flotilla 12 miles up Fuelled by a seemingly inexhaustible stream of federal military/security research cash, the US flying-robot industry seems to produce fresh wonders every day.â¦
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iRobot and WowWee introduce new robots at the Consumer Electronics Show. IRobotâs cleans gutters and WowWeeâs is a night watchman.
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An advanced robotic arm beats a host of other machines to win a Japanese government competition