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Robots

Learn Your Way Around A Cow’s Rectum With A Robot

7:00AM Chris Jacob | The ‘Haptic Cow’ may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow’s feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. More »
Robots

Warning: Robots Have Learned Deception, Will Kill Us All

1:40PM Dan Nosowitz | Not to get all alarmist with you people, but a group of robots in Switzerland have learned to lie to each other about the location of an object representing food, which almost certainly means we’re all going to die. Soon. More »
Robots

Robot Baseball Players To Necessitate Man’s Fusion With Rhinoceros

11:40PM Mark Wilson | Unless you’re Mark Buehrle, it’s nearly impossible for humans to play a perfect game of baseball. But for robots, feats like batting 1000 are already a reality. More »
Robots

Stanford Cart: When Robots Started Seeing In 3D

10:00AM Matt Buchanan | Terminators have night and infrared vision. But they had to start somewhere, right? In 1979, a robot at Stanford called Cart that was radio-linked to a mainframe tracked and navigated 3D obstacles using a sliding camera for stereoscopic vision. More »
Robots

Robot Crawls Through Veins To Kill Heal You

12:30AM Mark Wilson | A new robot, just one millimeter in diameter, can crawl through your veins to treat arterial blockage or deliver targeted medication. More »
Robots

Momozon Robot Ramen: 40 Million Ramen Flavours Made By A Robot

11:40PM Matt Buchanan | I’ll take six of the $US200,000 ramen-making robots Yoshihira Uchida built for his noodle shop Momozono Robot Ramen. The robot crafts completely customised ramen broth—there are over 40 million flavour possibilities you can configure. Mmmmm. More »
Games

Buy A Modded Guitar Hero Controller To Cheat At Fake Rocking

11:00AM Jason Chen | We’re big Guitar Hero/Rock Band fans, but buying a controller so that it can play the songs perfectly so that you don’t have to do anything? That’s taking it a bit too far. More »
Toys

MyDeskFriend Combines Facebook With A Little Robotic Penguin

7:00AM Jason Chen | Arimaz’s MyDeskFriend is a little penguin that rolls around your desk, has 5 moods, responds to physical input and connects to Facebook. I kinda want one. More »
Robots

Feed Me, Aero Blue Robot

9:00AM Andi Wang | It’s no secret that machines are taking over the world, starting with our menially laborious jobs. We’ve got cooking robots, vacuuming Roombas, and now there’s the Aero Blue Robot—a force-feeding droid. [Japan Times via DVice] More »