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Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous Than Real Bears, For Now
2:30AM Chris Jacob | Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo’s deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of the robot bear uprising. More »
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8:30AM Kyle VanHemert | Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless and transcendent. More »
Fly Away
8:30AM Kyle VanHemert | Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless and transcendent. More »
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Michael Jackson’s 3D Body Scans On eBay For $US1.5m
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The 10 Best Videos Of Man (And Creature) Fused With Machines
1:40PM Sean Fallon | A spillover from last week’s Cyborg-a-thon, Wired has put together a list of the top 10 cyborg videos. But not everything is about fusing man with machine. More »
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Cheap Open Source Robots Set To Take Over The World
8:05AM Rosa Golijan | How can we fear the robot revolution when it’s our own DIY handiwork and GPL? Each of these swarm robots costs less than €100 (about $160) to build and has a mind powered by open-source software. More »
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Say Hello To Your New Local Power Guy
2:28AM John Herrman | Helmeted workers in cherrypickers or precariously tethered to high voltage lines are as much a part of our power infrastructure’s aesthetic as towers and transformers. In the next few years, these iconic silhouettes will become a little more… mechanical. More »
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Robot Practices Tai Chi And Swordplay In Preparation To Kill Us
12:20PM Rosa Golijan | The first HUBO robot innocently rode a Segway. The HUBO 2 looks like he’s ready to turn into a killer ninja-bot as he practices tai chi, hones his swordsmanship has a drink when he’s finished. More »
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10 Machines That Have Taken On Important Human Roles
8:00AM Sean Fallon | The idea behind a “cyborg life” is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun passing the torch on tasks we are getting to lazy to do ourselves. More »
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Police Robot Negotiator Ends Stand-Off With Armed Man
5:41AM Jesus Diaz | Sensorial telepresence is a fancy name for sending robots with sensors to remote places, generally to perform dangerous tasks. Last Saturday, one was used to negotiate with an armed 61-year-old man holding a hostage, barricaded into a home. More »
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