This week’s Canadian Tire flyer looks to be pretty hot. Let’s great straight to the deals: To start, they’ve got 12-packs of Coke products for $2.47 and bags of Lay’s Chips are 3/$6 Moving to other areas of the kitchen, their Bravetti slow cooker (Product #43-1622-2) is 60% off and comes to just $20. Hello, slow-cooked meals! The Black and Decker toaster oven (Product #43-0876-4) is now $40 (that’s half off!) The Roomba (Product #43-6345-2) is $100, so you can pick it up for $270. Remember when
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Doug’s family is coming in for his niece’s wedding. They should be here sometime today. They are flying in and renting a car. And they’re staying here until Tuesday so I should be mostly unavailable until then. I know, because I’m always around these days anyway. hah! Anyway, the house is as clean as it can be…except the floor. I wipe the puppy paws off on a rug when they come in but still, they track in dirt. Ugh. I can’t keep up with it! Makes me want to pull my hair out. Stup
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Check out this extensive new article on iRobot’s use of LADAR 3-D laser technology to radically improve robotic vision: Christian Science Monitor link. Key quotes:”Even though we have great capabilities for them to be mobile and … to control their actions and motion, their perception is still something that’s technically behind,” says Edison Hudson, deputy director of research at iRobot. The Burlington, Mass., company is building the LADAR-enabled robots for the military and other interested
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Battlefields will be big test for 'seeing' robot Christian Science Monitor, MA - 9 minutes ago says Helen Greiner, chairman and cofounder of iRobot. "It doesn't sense what we sense with our visual processing that this is an object we can easily just …

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Click here to see more photos Robotics technology has seen some impressive improvements in recent years, whether it was in cars that (sort of) drive themselves or in advanced remote controlled robots deployed in military and emergency situations. But whether it was an advanced AI controlled vehicle moving through the desert in the DARPA Challenge or a bomb detection robot remote controlled by a specialist, all of these robots have one common weakness, they can’t see very well. Typically these
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iRobot Names Jay Leader Vice President of Information Technology … PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 15 minutes ago www.irobot.com - iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT) today announced Jay Leader has been named vice president of information technology (IT) and chief information …

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