I went to Ashlee’s bridal shower today, which was fun. Afterwards, we had a conversation about things that scare us. I can’t exactly remember how it started, but it was pretty fun. Here is a list of 10 things we are afraid of, ranked by level of threat to us in ascending order. 10. Octopuses. This didn’t actually come up, but it is well-known that Bryna is afraid of them. 9. Scary Babies. Nothing is scarier than scary babies. If a toddler or child is demon possessed and attacks you, you can’
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This Week On BotJunkie By Evan Ackerman On BotJunkie this week, we started things off with a video of a robotic chair that you control by pointing where you want it to go, heard with a raised eyebrow or two that WowWee’s Robosapien is going to be starring in a feature film, started caring about car racing when we learned that there’s going to be an unmanned event at this year’s Toyota Grand Prix featuring winners of the DARPA Urban Challenge, acquiesced to the demands of NASA’s Dextre robot
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A medical student places a chest tube in a patient lying on an operating table, while another student conducts a colonoscopy. Everything is just as it would be in a real OR or treatment room, except that the patients won’t be harmed or complain if mistakes are made — they’re robots. These high-tech, electronically outfitted mannequins are equipment in the new $5 million medical and surgical simulation training center at the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center in East Baltimore that opened in March
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