Robo-lawnmower goes hybrid CNET.com.au, Australia - 10 hours ago The company is no stranger to robo-mower business with its Automower line, which has already seen competition from LawnBott and other automated clippers. …

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Check out what Trot Nixon said about a couple of hecklers.
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He was the original “Dirt Dog.” And as you can see from the photo above, probably not someone you want to have catch you sneaking around with his wife or taking the last Oreo without first asking him. Something tells me he misses the AL East rivalry. From Sportsline.com: Trot Nixon had a couple of answers for a small band of hecklers on Monday — a two-run homer and a two-run double. “I guess they were Yankee fans,” the former Red Sox outfielder said after he helped Arizona beat San Diego 8-4
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While people are running around in a panic over the economy, new innovations are constantly happening. It’s beginning to look like robots are the new “Next Big Thing”. Of course robots have been used for years in the assembly of automobiles, but what’s new are completely independent robots that can coexist with us as part of our daily environment. Most familiar are iRobot’s rug and floor cleaning robots. But iRobot also makes a number of robots for the use in dangerous environments. If you watc
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Robotic BigDog Is Amazingly Lifelike, Scary, Headless, Awesome, Leggy, Strong MORE: animals , ass , awesome , crazy , dog , drug mule , i want , mobility , mule , nuts , robot , scary , sick , video , wicked This is a new video of Boston Dynamics’ incredibly mobile BigDog quadruped robot. The robot has gone through several modifications since its inception, and this is the new-and-improved version. As is evident from the video, the scary little bastard can now climb hills, j
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You hate to see annoying things like this that put some truth into the old-joke oxymoron “Military Intelligence”: iRobot told the General Accounting Office (GAO) that the Army at one point required the addition of a fire extinguisher to the 30-pound Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle in the Future Combat Systems program, which was impractical. (We note that the whole point of the SUGV is to make it light enough to be easily carried by soldiers in their backpacks). They also wanted the SUGV to be abl
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Note: Over the next few days in Machinist, I’ll be running excerpts from my new book, “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.” The book argues that new communications technologies are loosening the culture’s grip on what people once called “objective reality.” Here, I discuss one aspect of this trend, why people are quick to see bias in the news. Excerpted from “True Enough” by Farhad Manjoo (Wiley, 2008) In the fall of 2004, Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal’s influenti
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