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Nissan BR32C – car crash avoiding robot

Nissan has made the BR32C robot, which is equipped with technology to avoid car crashes.

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Bat-like robotic spy plane developed by University of Michigan

Spy planes should come in the shape of a “bird” for better camouflage. Univerisity of Michigan has been awarded a 5-year grant of $10 millions for the development of some bat-like robotic spy planes.

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ScanBot – book scanning made easy, with the robotic hands flipping pages for you

Most Book scanners look similar and all they have to do is to scan the pages in a book for you. And most of them have no intelligence to flip over the many thousands of pages and you’ll have to use your two hands to flip through those pages.

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50-foot robotic spider to attack Liverpool

A gigantic 50-foot robotic spider was spotted of clinging to the side of an office building in Liverpool, England.

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TICKER Clockworks robot will attract the love of antique collectors

The TICKER Clockworks robot sold at Etsy doesn’t seem to have any intelligence and high-tech stuff contained within. I guess it shall be made of used parts from dumped old clocks.

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Robotic helicopters with self-learning system, fly better than the human RC jockey

Some computer experts at Stanford University have designed an intelligent system and install them on a troupe of autonomous helicopters, which let them fly better than the RC pilot who trained them.

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New Zealand to use robo doctor to treat patients

The Kiwi researchers are somehow pretty excited in their research to build robots to replace doctors in hospitals. How reliable a robotic doctor is? It is definitely a big question or whether you can put trust in the robot’s hands if you’re the patient?

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WIRED NextFest to be held in Chicago September 27 – October 12

This year, the WIRED NextFest is gonna be held in Chicago’s Millennium Park, and open for the public from September 27, 2008 to October 12, 2008 daily from 11am to 7pm. (Thursday noon to 8pm, closed on Monday).

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Stonehenge Robotic Digital Clock

Somehow people love weird clocks, especially those with pretty confusing clock face which are hard for you tell time by simply taking at a first glance. Here comes the Stonehenge robotic digital clock which also belongs to the confusing crocky group.

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Swallowable pill-like camera robot used to examine a patient’s gut

Robots can get extremely tiny in size these days. Such as just about the size of a pill is all possible today. Such a super tiny-sized robot will be best used in medical and many other useful applications.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have successfully developed a pill capsule-like tiny bot, which is to be used to effectively examine the internal organs of a patient.

A patient will just swallow the tiny bot like a normal pill. And the pill-like robot will then swim itself through the intestine of the patient, capture images and feedback to the doctor wirelessly.

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