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• Article | 21/09/2011 Cyborg plants render humans even more obsolete

  The cyborg plant is not a new concept. The robot plant replacement is even less new: You can buy one for a price of $4.19 from ThinkGeek, after all. B...
• Article | 7/08/2011 Google Blames a Human for its Robo-Car Crash

  One of Google's self-driving cars got into an accident earlier this week. But Google is claiming the auto-pilot-equipped Prius was actually flipped in...
• Article | 1/03/2011 Robotic Herds Could Be the Next Step in Farming

  Fully autonomous herds of robots could be the future of farming, or at least that's what one roboticist thinks. Trossen Robotics forum member Vanmunch...
• Article | 12/01/2011 Robotic privacy curtain fails, but amuses the masses

  More than ever, people are taking their online and real-life privacy more seriously. Swedish inventor Niklas Roy also felt that his privacy was being ...
• Article | 26/10/2010 Get Snooping With a Nosy Japanese Robot

  If you're a homeowner and have done any sort of do-it-yourself home projects, chances are you've had to get into the crawlspace beneath your home on s...
• Article | 20/10/2010 Behold the robotic future of cake decoration

  Developments are still continuing apace in the field of delicious-food-making robots. This time we have an automated cake decorator that extrudes desi...
• Article | 16/10/2010 iRobot demos 'shape shifting' next-gen robots

  Meet the next generation of robots that shape-shift, are squish-able, and can troll the world's oceans for months on a single battery charge. iRobot, ...
• Article | 13/10/2010 Google's Self-Driving Car: Will Hollywood's Dream Become Reality?

  Google <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/207416/googles_selfdriving_cars_a_ride_drive_down_memory_lane.html">self-driving cars</a> may someday l...
• Article | 27/08/2010 MIT builds swimming, oil-eating robots

  MIT researchers have used nanotechnology to develop a robot that can autonomously navigate across the surface of the ocean to clean up an oil spill.
• Article | 16/07/2010 New Zealand's Rex the robot helps wheelchair-bound to walk

  Hayden Allen makes a couple of moves, whirring noises are heard, and the young New Zealander undergoes an astonishing transformation.
• Article | 14/07/2010 South Korea deploys robots armed with machine guns at DMZ border

  The Demilitarized Zone ("DMZ") is a 160-mile long, 2.5-mile wide strip of land that separates the two Koreas. South Korea has recently bumped up the s...
• Article | 10/07/2010 Era of robots, tech-enhanced humans not here yet

  Advocates of the concept called singularity envision a future in which humans and technology fully converge, but a keynote speaker at the World Future...
• Article | 29/05/2010 Research robots 'graduate,' head to uni

  A California-based start-up called Willow Garage is hoping to accelerate the adoption of robots into human society by lending eleven robots to differe...
• Article | 14/05/2010 SLIDESHOW: The cutest robots in the world

  Robots are always one of two things: unbelievably adorable, or terrifying, creepy, and ready to take over the world.
• Article | 13/05/2010 Fujitsu's teddy bear robot

  Fujitsu has developed a robot teddy bear that's designed to motivate children and stimulate the elderly.