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The Robot Touch - Daily Californian
it took me all summer, but i finally saw pixar's summer blockbuster wall-e. spoiler alert: it was a love story, and i didn't expect one. it seems like that's the big theme among robots in fiction. though they aren't supposed to have the capacity to ...
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Microsoft's Odd Couple: Bill Gates Does A Mean Robot
bill and jerry are back, and the dynamic duo's second microsoft ad is already bringing as much divided opinion as its much-analyzed predecessor. the spot, which first appeared on youtube thursday night, shows seinfeld and gates staying with "average family" in an effort to reconnect with the common american.
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Rialto Police Roll Out Newcomer To Swat Team -- Remote-controlled Robot
rialto - the rialto police department on tuesday night unveiled a new tool that can go to work in dangerous situations: a bomb-detecting, stair-climbing, camera-wielding robot.
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Whew: Second Bill Gates/jerry Seinfeld Ad A Sharp Improvement Over The ... - Hotair.com
the bar was low , granted, but even so: king nerd doing the robot? i might upgrade my copy of office just for that. these two relating to “real people” is kind of like obama and biden trying to do the same. only obama and biden are more out of ...
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Previous Day - Belfast Telegraph
a teenager in the uk has been charged with making a home-made bomb. channel tunnel fire put out (10:14) the fire in the channel tunnel has been put out after burning for more than 16 hours, french police said today. 12:53 man charged with 2005 dublin ...
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The Asphalt Jungle: Pc Rider - "let Me Drive Your Car, Dave. I Can Feel It, Dave."
the skinny-tie crowd is getting serious about fully automated cars. you see, robot-driven automobiles are going to help save us from global warming. the notion, as outlined in a recent article in businessweek, is that by turning over all driving control to an autonomous "car-bot" (the article quotes a gm engineer who says "they are more polite than people"), crashes will become all but ...
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Is Man's Best Friend A Robot's Worst Enemy?
james woudhuysen, computing , thursday 11 september 2008 at 06:00:00 as consumers start to explore the benefits of mobile robotics, a potential rival to the technology is emerging from an unlikely source last month, gartner vice president jackie fenn suggested that mobile robots are among the technologies that have “begun to be interesting to business”.... ...
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Man Charged With 2005 Dublin Murder (12:53) - Belfast Telegraph
a man has appeared in court in dublin this morning charged with the murder of another man in clontarf nearly three years ago. man dies after falling from hotel balcony (12:44) a 29 year old man has died after falling from a hotel balcony in county ...
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Local Soldier Shares Spotlight With Robot - Everything Alabama Blog
sgt. 1st class stephan faddis was just doing his job - demonstrating a small unmanned ground vehicle to a group of tourists on the national mall in the nation's capitol - when a magazine photographer took his picture. a few months later, faddis ...
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Akron Man Helps In Recovery Of Stolen Gorilla Robot
east machias, me -- an akron man who owns and operates the gorillarobotfactory.com is considered one of the reasons why a stolen gorilla robot in maine was returned.
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Robotic Surgery At Banner Cuts Hospital Stay, Recovery Time
a four-armed robot in east mesa is helping surgeons in the operating room. {vnl} watch the robot in action
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Game Pitch: Plain Sight - Guardian Unlimited
beatnik games is an indie games company based in london. it's first game - a stunning 3d beat-em-up - plain sight , is soon to be released on the xbox 360. it focusses on the machiavellian tendencies of a little sword-wielding robot with suicidal ...
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Future Combat Systems, Here And Now - Cnet Asia
the u.s. army has ambitious plans for a widespread high-tech refresh of its vehicles and other soldier gear. it's also finding a way to make some parts happen sooner rather than later. "this little robotic fellow in the foreground looks like he might ...
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Standoff Ends With Man's Suicide
a 49-year-old man is dead after taking his wife and two daughters hostage during early morning hours of friday. jacob josephat stallworth of woodland committed suicide at 12:26 p.m., before officers could reach him.
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Standoff Ends With Man's Suicide
a 49-year-old man is dead after taking his wife and two daughters hostage during early morning hours of friday. jacob josephat stallworth of woodland committed suicide at 12:26 p.m., before officers could reach him. his family was released unharmed earlier in the morning.
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Please, Not Another Automatic Toilet - Papillion Times
by now, i'm starting to realize the futuristic society i used to watch on television as a kid has become a reality. maybe it's a little different than doc brown and marty mcfly's future of flying cars, but with cell phones that are more like mini ...
www.papilliontimes.com

Powerful Robots Clash At Imts - Design News
the battle for the title of "world's strongest robot" escalated here at the imts 2008 show, which featured demos of two six-axis robots that up the ante on payload capacities and reach. one of the new models, from fanuc robots , debuted here at the ...
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Seinfeld And Gates Hit The Road For Vista
in the second installment of the new ad push, the microsoft chairman and the tv star move in with a family. spoiler alert: this time gates does the "robot dance."
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The Tv Ad Exodus, Part 1: Beyond The 30-second Spot
you come home one night and want to catch up on a local sporting event or your favorite show. you sit down, pick up the remote for your dvr, and start watching. as the first commercial appears, you -- like most individuals -- hit the fast-forward button. as you do so, advertising executives, tv networks and even dvr makers themselves wonder: what good are commercials if viewers like you don't ...
www.technewsworld.com

Robo Spyplanes Turned Into Pigeons For Remote Area Health Care - Newstrack India
london, september 13 (ani): engineers at the south african national health laboratory service have converted uncrewed military aircraft into robotic carrier pigeons that can carry medical samples from remote areas to labs for testing, and thereby ...
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