Under Angle’s leadership, iRobot has joined forces with exceptional strategic partners – including The Clorox Company, The Boeing Company – to create new and innovative robot solutions that build on decades of leading expertise from …
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MobileRobots Inc. says today that a 12-year, $15 million research effort has resulted in the first robotic navigation system that works indoors and out regardless of whether GPS is available. (I wonder if PackBot could use this technology, or Roomba?) Press release at this link. Tags: iRobot, MobileRobots
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In 2004, best-selling authors Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan teamed up to write Faithful, a day-by-day account of the Boston Red Sox championship season as experienced through the eyes of two diehard fans. Now that Boston has once again climbed to the summit of their sport, we here at Yard Work are proud to re-team these two literary titans for more Sox talk in today’s installment of our 2008 Season Preview. STEWART O’NAN (SO): Yeah, this winning stuff. I could definitely get used to it. 20
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Keynotes at APEX 2008 EMSNow (press release), UK - 43 minutes ago The company he founded, iRobot, deftly combines the latest artificial intelligence technology with easy-to-use interfaces, to develop robots for government, …

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Well, considering the fact that the esteemed Dr. Kate Nicholas while commenting on another post (Sinners and Saints to be exact) requested sex, and as I hold the Royal Society in such high regard, I simply had to oblige. Looking at the following article, it seems that we are on the verge of a new sexual revolution which is just begging for commentary by Dr.Nicholas. The liberation of women AGAIN, you ask? Been there, done that, doing that again next Friday you say? No, not women this time.
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Foxconn Board of directors approves plant in Russia Foxconn’s board of directors has approved a plan to invest € 32.3 million to set up a PC assembly plant in Russia. EMS | March 12 2008, 8:11 AM most popular Romania a new EMS hotspot in Europe Celestica wins Bluetooth deal over Foxconn Jabil & iRobot develop robot for defence sector Flextronics may build a full industrial Park in Russia Former Flextronics boss joins Proxy < official par
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As Cam mentioned, we’re building a chicken coop (well, Brad and Colin from Seattle Urban Farm Co. are building a chicken coop, and we’re helping) and checking out the baby chick catalog. Later this year, or maybe early next, I expect we’re going to have more fresh eggs than we know what to do with. So start currying favor now. *cough* I got a new computer. It had been about seven years, so the difference (between a Powerbook G4 667MHz with 1GB of RAM and an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz with 4GB of R
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