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Video: Robot cheetah beats speed record
Canada.com
By David Alexander, Reuters March 6, 2012 12:30 PM A robot designed by a Boston company to mimic the cheetah has set a new speed record for running robots, reaching 18 miles (29 kilometers) per hour. The robot is the latest creation of robotics ...
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US robotic 'cheetah' breaks speed records
Ottawa Citizen
The headless robot looks to be about the size of a small dog and is shown running on a treadmill in pictures and video released Monday by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. "The robot's movements are patterned after those of fast-running ...
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DARPA's Robot Cheetah Breaks Speed Record for Legged Robots [VIDEO]
International Business Times
By Amir Khan: Subscribe to Amir's RSS feed The robot achieved speeds of 18 mph (29 km/h) on a treadmill, breaking the previous record of 13.1 mph (21 km/h) set by in 1989, according a to press release from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
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International Business Times
Best of Youtube: Flying robots play James Bond theme
Canada.com (blog)
This week researchers from the University of Pennsylvania showed off some of their recent robotics innovations at TED 2012. One of the resulting projects is this video, which shows flying robots playing the James Bond theme.
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Video: Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Gallops at 18 mph
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and DARPA have just released video of their prototype "Cheetah" robot galloping at 18 mph (nearly 30 kph), setting a new land speed record for legged robots. Boston Dynamics isn't calling this robot"Cheetah" just for fun: the bot's ...
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IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Breaks Land Speed Record for Legged Bots, Might Have ...
BostInno
The video below shows the headless, heartless monster galloping on a treadmill looking awfully terrifying. Noel Sharkey, professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield said the latest achievement was very impressive.
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A Robot Draws People's Portraits in CeBIT High-Tech Fair
First Coast News
... like a robot capable of drawing people's portraits. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/1492117597001/1/A-Robot-Draws-Peoples-Portraits-in-CeBIT-High-Tech-Fair http://cdn.newslook.com/c7/c76ce20f2ff9ec9f81a64cb4fda040c0/images/frame_0004.jpg A ...
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Video: DARPA's Cheetah Sets a Land-Speed Record for Running Robots
Popular Science
In a video released by DARPA, the Boston Dynamics-built Cheetah hits the treadmill, notching what DARPA says is a new land speed record for leggedrobots at 18 miles per hour. DARPA hasn't said explicitly what it expects from the robot or what its ...
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Popular Science
Robotic cheetah sets speed record
R & D Magazine
The M3 program pursues four parallel tracks of research and development: tool design, improvement of production methods and processes, improvement in control of robot mobility and manipulation, and prototype demonstration. This video shows a ...
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R & D Magazine
'Cheetah' Robot From Boston Dynamics Breaks Land Speed Records
Huffington Post
"We really want to understand the limits of what is possible for fast-moving robots." Avideo of the Cheetah on the treadmill can be seen at: www.youtube.com/BostonDynamics#p/a/u/0/83ULlgpT1UQ . (Reporting By David Alexander; editing by Eric Beech)
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The Cheetah sets new land speed record for legged robots
DigitalJournal.com
The robot is not a gimmick though, but designed with the specific purpose of being used in warfare. It has been developed, as CNN report in the video below, to zig-zag and evade capture. Boston Dynamics also successfully designed a Robotic Mule capable ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Cheetah Robot Breaks Land Speed Record
TruthDive
The design firm has broken a 23-year-old speed record for legged robots. Boston Dynamics, founded by Marc Raibert, a former MIT roboticist, released a video on YouTube on Monday of its four-legged Cheetah prototype running on a treadmill at 18 miles ...
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Next steps in situational awareness
FCW.com
The remote-control device uses infrared optics to see in the dark and relays video. It's the third contract the Pentagon has awarded to the company. “These robots allow our dismounted troops to have some safety built in with standoff distance where ...
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Toronto: Robotic surgery treats early stage lung cancer
Canadian National Newspaper
UToronto.ca) -- In a Canadian first, a robotic surgical system has been used to treat early-stage lung cancer by removing the cancer, along with a lobe of the lung. The pioneering surgery was performed at the University Health Network's Toronto General ...
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Canadian National Newspaper
VGo Expands Healthcare Focus
Sacramento Bee
VGo has leveraged the recent trends of widespread wireless high speed networks, lower specialized component costs and the universal acceptance of video as a communications medium to become the Robotic Telepresence market leader.
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Pole Dancing Robot Wows Crowd at German Tech Conference CeBIT [PHOTOS]
International Business Times
Google will be making a presentation about the future of online video, and Amazon will be discussing cloud infrastructure and its impact on business. Start the slideshow to see the pole-dancing robot and other tech unveiled ahead of the CeBIT kickoff.
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International Business Times
Rodney Brooks Keynote at Robotdalen
Robots.net
On February 9 we arranged the event Robotics Innovation Challenge. One of the key note speakers at the event was Rodney Brooks, one of the world's foremost roboticists and founder of the robot companies iRobot and Heartland Robotics. It's a short video...
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Honeywell Had The World's First Fembots in 1968
Gizmodo
This 1968 promotional video for Honeywell's electronics and computing equipment also includes a glimpse of the company's work in obviously-faked-robotics. Miss Honeywell might be billed as the 'world's first robotic woman', but even Vicki from Small ...
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Video: The Byte - App Store milestone, iPad trademark, Boeing's Dreamliner ...
PC Advisor
Originally made for satellite control, the patents have potential applications in robotics, telecommunications, and other areas. Organizers said it helps promote the use of NASA technology and creates a greater ROI for taxpayers.
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At a Harlem Transfer School, a High-Tech Celebration of Student Achievement
New York Times
Nadav Zeimer, a bespectacled former computer engineer and robotics coach who took the helm at Harlem Renaissance in 2010, said the event served both as a shout-out to students and a way to engage them with the larger community.
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Where Gardentrucking And 'Geek Culture' Meet
Manufacturing.net (blog)
Organizations like FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) are making significant progress in making roboticsengineering more mainstream for high school students around the country. Video games are pretty much ubiquitous for ...
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Manufacturing.net (blog)
The Kairos Society: WaterWalla
Huffington Post
Parikh already received his BA in Commerce, Organizations & Entrepreneurship and has even worked in robotics; at NASA on Lunar and Mars landers; and in biotech on water technologies. Slated to graduate from medical school in 2015, he isn't waiting ...
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Robot Cheetah's New Speed Record Spotlights DARPA's Battlefield ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The cheetah robot's record-breaking sprint appeared in a new video posted by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today (March 5). Its top running speed of 18 mph (29 kph) is faster than the average human ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Video: DARPA's Cheetah Sets a Land-Speed Record for Running ...
By Clay Dillow
About a year ago we got our first look at DARPA's Cheetah 'bot via a concept drawing that looked more like a storyboard frame for a Transformers film than real, liverobotics. Today, we get to see much more than a concept. In a video released ...
Popular Science - New Technology,...
Flying Robots Play James Bond Theme At TED 2012 (VIDEO)
Check out a clip of the robots' "James Bond" music video (above) and make sure to.... When Autonomous Flying Robots Fail - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../flying-robots-ted-2012_n_13160...
Arduino robot crawler | Robotics Bible – Robotics Projects, News ...
The above video shows you the motion and obstacle avoidance of an Arduino robotcrawler. At first, this robot is made to crawl on a floor, and it turns ...
www.roboticsbible.com/video-arduino-robot-crawler.html
Video: Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Gallops at 18 mph
Boston Dynamics and DARPA have just released video of their prototype "Cheetah"robot galloping at 18 mph (nearly 30 kph), setting a new land speed record ...
spectrum.ieee.org/.../video-boston-dynamics-cheetah-robot-ga...
Science News Daily || Video Friday: A Robot With Bird Legs, DARPA ...
DARPA's Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program is developing software to perform human-level tasks quickly and with minimal direction.
www.sciencenewsdaily.org/robotics-news/cluster138842276/
Quadrotor robots are a hit with James Bond ... - CNET News.com
Shown at the TED conference, flying quadcopter robots take to the recording studio to jam out a robotic version of the James Bond theme song. Read this blog ...
news.cnet.com/.../quadrotor-robots-are-a-hit-with-james-bond-...
'Mazor Robotics' Spine Surgery System Sold In California | News Flash
Israeli Innovation News ... News Flash · Tagged: news flash, robots, spine, surgery ...Mobile World Congress: App 'Pops' Turns Your Notifications Into Videos ...
nocamels.com/.../mazor-robotics-spine-surgery-system-sold-in...
Middle school students build functional robots (SLIDESHOW, VIDEO ...
FORT WALTON BEACH — Imagination, an instruction manual, a few tools and some nuts and bolts all fused together Wednesday to bring an engineering ...
www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/beach-47833-fort-robots.html
7th Annual Robot American Football Competition (Video) | Robots ...
2nd Annual All Japan Robot American Football Competition (Video) · The ... Robots Dreams also reports on space, military, industrial and medical robot news .
www.robots-dreams.com/.../7th-annual-robot-american-footba...
Video Friday: A Robot With Bird Legs, DARPA Manipulation Demo ...
IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog, featuring news, articles, and videos on robots, humanoids, automation, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, robot kits, and more.
spectrum.ieee.org/.../robot-with-bird-legs-darpa-arm-darwin-o...
Robots That Fly - Video
Written by Harry Fairhead. Friday, 02 March 2012 17:26. TED talks are always fun but this one looks more fun than average. It's about quadrotor based robots ...
www.i-programmer.info/.../3866-robots-that-fly-video.html
Video: Robotics Competition at Berkeley | The Daily Californian
Video: Robotics Competition at Berkeley ... honor society) and PiE (Pioneers in Engineering) hosted a robotics competition at Berkeley for ... Most Recent News ...
www.dailycal.org/.../video-robotics-competition-at-berkeley/
Avon Lake joins robotics club (with video) - morningjournal.com
The Morning Journal is your source for all Northeast Ohio 24-hour breaking news , local news, sports, entertainment and more. View daily weather updates, ...
www.morningjournal.com/.../doc4f5440e360af3977261204.t...
Flying robots play James Bond Theme on real instruments (video ...
From Yahoo! News: In today's edition of pointless-but-awesome, we have anothervideo from the ingenious folks at the University of Pennsylvania's General ...
news.yahoo.com/flying-robots-play-james-bond-theme-real-in...
Robots at the Library! | Video | San Diego County News Center
San Diego County News Center ... Teenagers from two robotics schools showcased their robots at the Encinitas Library, as part of FIRST Robotics Day.
countynewscenter.com/video?page=2&v=115503
Viral video: Flying robot quadrotors created by Penn scientists play ...
An earlier video of quadrotors created by the GRASP Lab and shared on YouTube shows the robots in motion and has netted more than 5.5 million views since ...
blog.pennlive.com/life/.../viral_video_flying_robot_quadr.ht...
Robotics Team Gets White House Praise - One News Page [US ...
Robotics Team Gets White House Praise.. News video on One News Page[US] on Friday, 24 February 2012.
www.onenewspage.us/.../Robotics-Team-Gets-White-House-Pr...
Total Recall: Robot Remembers and Retrieves Objects: Scientific ...
News videos covering science, health and technology at Sciam.com. ... Hitachi has unveiled a robot that can recognize objects at a glimpse and guide humans ...
www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=total-recall...
Island Pacific Academy's robotics team educating the community ...
KAPOLEI (February 27, 2012)—Island Pacific Academy's (IPA) robotics team is looking to ... Submit Photo/Video · Send News Tip · Wake Up 2day; Features ...
www.khon2.com/.../SOKU36zpBEis2QEyt1rpUQ.cspx
Bulawayo24 NEWS | Four-legged robot 'Cheetah' sets new land ...
technology | Bulawayo24 NEWS. 06. March. 2012. News ... Four-legged robot ' Cheetah' sets new land speed record: Video. by Moyo Roy. 2012 March 06 ...
www.bulawayo24.com/index-id-technology-sc-science-byo-1...
Quadrotor robots are a hit with James Bond theme song (video - CNET
See nano quadcopter robots swarm (video) · Bite-size kilobits ready to swarm [li]Robots learn new tricks, take ... Posted on 02/15/2012 | 09:09 AM | Gadget news ...
m.cnet.com/ces2012/Article.rbml?nid...bid...bcid...
Cheetah Robot Hits Record 18 MPH In Video: Science Fiction in the ...
Cheetah Robot Hits Record 18 MPH In Video re: William Gibson on 3/4/2012: Science Fiction in the News.
www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?...3572
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