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Robotic Venus Fly Trap Eats Real Bugs for Fuel

Two prototype Venus Fly Trap robots were recently designed with the ability to capture and eat real bugs and use them for energy.

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New York Man Runs His Office in Texas with a Robot

A well known game developer from Texas works from home and runs his office through a robot, which he controls and leaves in charge during his absence.

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Advancements in a Surgical Technologist’s Arsenal: Would You Let a Robot Operate on You?

Sci-fi movies love to portray the future as some robotic filled universe where the work of humans are replaced by magnificent machines that can do the work in twice the time and double the efficiency. The truth is that while machines can replicate rote jobs, they can’t fully replace the …

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4 Unbeatable Fighting Robots

Maybe “unbeatable” is a bit exaggerated and in fact it should not even be a goal when building robots, given that such a scenario reminds us of Skynet. However, when …

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Tiny Robot Piloted by a Fruit Fly

Swiss researchers have designed a tiny robot that can be piloted by a pilot as small as your average fruit fly.

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Bakebot: The Cookie Baking Robot

Technology is one word that we get to hear very frequently these days. In fact, at an even faster rate we get to see examples of this ever developing technology. Over the last few years, man is witnessing tasks slipping out of his hands and landing up with a robot. …

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LEGO Robot Cuts Cake, Not You

If you’ve ever wondered how LEGO bricks could help you serve baked goods, you can wonder no more.

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Robot Can Think and Learn, Act On Its Own

Someone needs to get on the horn to the Governator and let him know that Skynet is about to take over the world.  A new robot comes as close as exhibiting the traits as that evil program as any that have been seen

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Hugging Robot Makes Everything Better

If Narcissus were alive today, he would have liked to be born in Japan, rather than his original Greek homeland.

A Robot With A Sense Of Touch

A Robot With A Sense Of Touch

Every further improvement made in the field of robotics usually provokes varied reactions that run the full nerdy gamut from “Oh em gee, amazing” to “Next step: Skynet”. This recent development coming from the Tehnical University of Munich (TUM) likely won’t be the exception, though I’m personally more inclined towards …