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ROBOTICS News, Apr 23, 2013

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German Engineers Build Robotic Dragonfly [VIDEO]
PlanetSave.com
We are living in a Golden Age for robotics, or more accurately, robotic biomimicry. If there be any doubt, consider the numerous, recent robotic engineering projects taking their lead from Nature — especially the small and non-vertebrate kind — from ...
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Robot-Human Interaction: Will We Bond With Bots In The Future? (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Research scientist Dr. Leila Takayama studies human-robot interaction at robotics lab Willow Garage, and has seen our relationship with bots evolve. What's her take on our future bond with bots? Find out in the video above, and/or click the link below ...
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Humans feel empathy for robots - Nanowerk
Nanowerk LLC
In the first study, 40 participants watched videos of a small dinosaur-shaped robot that was treated in an affectionate or a violent way and measured their level of physiological arousal and asked for their emotional state directly after the videos ...
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Robot learns to collaborate assembling IKEA furniture (w/video) - Nanowerk
Nanowerk LLC
(Nanowerk News) Research in learning from demonstration has focused on transferring movements from humans to robots. However, a need is arising for robots that do not just replicate the task on their own, but that also interact with humans in a safe ...
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TechHive Video Update: Home-made robots
TechHive
In this video, you'll meet the Homebrew Robotics Club, which meets the last Wednesday of each month at Google—”just a bunch of guys that like to build robots” is how club member Camp Peavy describes the group. It's all fun and games now, but Peavy ...
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Team DRC-Hubo Prepares for DARPA Robotics Challenge
IEEE Spectrum
Early this year, the team had released a rather nifty computer animation starring Hubo as a disaster response robot in the year 2020. This week the HuboLab researchers have published the first videos showing their robot engaging in DRC-related activities.
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IEEE Spectrum
Providing medical video-on-demand
Globes
The future is even more exciting: video imaging and distribution of medical content in real time can enable remote diagnosis and treatment through robotics. Already, some minimally invasive surgeries are carried out without the doctor touching the ...
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U.S. Team Take Home Robotics World Championship [VIDEO]
Nature World News
"Their world championship award reinforces the power of STEM education, specifically as it applies in robotics, and especially the highly effective curriculum and dedication of the faculty at 'the other' Worcester Tech," said Worcester Polytechnic ...
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Nature World News
Robots Helped Capture Boston Bombing Suspect [VIDEO]
International Business Times
After authorities were tipped off that Tsarnaev was hiding beneath a tarp in a boat parked in the driveway of a home in Watertown, Mass., robotic devices were employed to help capture the armed suspect, who engaged law enforcement officers in an ...
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International Business Times
2013 FIRST Robotics Competition: High School Students Build Robots ...
Huffington Post
Watch the full story in the video above. Teens watched -- and sometimes operated -- robots that played against each other in a game called "Ultimate Ascent." The purpose of the game was to land as many discs into the goals within two-minute matchups ...
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SkySweeper robot makes inspecting power lines simple and inexpensive (w ...
Nanowerk LLC
SkySweeper robot makes inspecting power lines simple and inexpensive (w/ video). (Nanowerk News) Mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego invented a robot designed to scoot along utility lines, searching for damage and other...
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Nanowerk LLC
Humans feel empathy for robots: fMRI scans show similar brain ...
In the first study, 40 participants watched videos of a small dinosaur-shaped robot that was treated in an affectionate or a violent way and measured their level of physiological arousal and asked for their emotional state directly after the videos. .... More news stories. Rights group launches campaign to ban 'killer robots'. A global rights group launched a campaign on Tuesday to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the ...
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Spike in scrutiny for robotic surgery | Watch the video - Yahoo! News
Watch the video Spike in scrutiny for robotic surgery on Yahoo! News . Reaction from Dr. David Samadi.
news.yahoo.com/.../spike-scrutiny-robotic-surgery-11392272...
Robotic breast reconstruction surgery | Fox News Video
Surgeons have been using robotics to perform surgery in urology and gynecology departments ...
video.foxnews.com/v/.../robotic-breast-reconstruction-surgery/
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