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The Robobusiness 2008 Conference kicked off today with a speech from Kevin Fahey, the army’s head of ground combat systems, praising robotic systems for saving lives. But two tidbits in this story at CBC News stand out: iRobot CEO Colin Angle mentioned deep ocean oil drilling and janitorial duties as growth prospects for robotics: In 2000, more than $80 billion U.S. was spent in the United States simply cleaning floors, he said, a pie the robot industry is well poised to grab. Overall, the robo
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by amber I just saw this video of a little yellow robot designed to zoom around to different objects, tap out some beats on them, and then sample himself to make a song! It’s pretty cool - the robot sort of looks like WALL-E, and his eyes seem to function as maracas. So cool! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4768785847596057252 I have to say that on the whole, I’m sort of disappointed with our progression on the domestic robot front. Rosie from the Jetsons is still a figment of Han
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Ah, the future. It’s always fun to look back and see some of the inventions and ideas around technology that everyone would eventually be using. At least that’s what inventor Claus Sholz thought. Case in point, the MM47 life size robot for handling housework and radioactive materials? Thankfully handling radioactive materials is not something that we are doing everyday but do you think that this will ever actually happen? Would you want something like this in your home or is the Roomba vacuum
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Middle school girls explore math, science Exeter News-Letter, NH - 58 minutes ago … technology, and design, through the 15 different classes that were offered, such as, "CSI: Reality," "iRobot," "Fly by Math" and "Elements of Design. …

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