Definition of a good host: Someone who sits on the couch with you at night when you’re visiting town, and lets you be antisocial and work. This week I’m down in Raleigh at Red Hat HQ working on the marketing, messages, and mayhem (mama mia, I love alliteration) for the coming of Sulphur. Coming into a Red Hat office is its own special brand of excitement. If coming to work for Red Hat is like jumping a fast-moving train, then coming to work at a Red Hat office is like catching that streaking
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Robotics manufacturer iRobot, which produces some of the machines used on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan, has reached a further funding agreement with the US Army worth US$6 million..
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AP Photo/Jason Bronis Terrill Rufus poses with his vagrant-fighting Bum Bot. Rufus Terrill, a 57-year-old ex-Marine bar owner and engineer in Atlanta, says that vagrants are destroying his neighborhood. “They’re out here to get money for drugs, to get money from breaking into cars,” Terrill recently told the Associated Press. “These are bad guys.” Terrill says he’s tried many ways to keep such bad guys off the streets. First he patrolled the area on foot with an assault rifle in hand — t
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No longer just sci-fi sensations, household robots are at your service Evansville Courier & Press (subscription), IN - 19 hours ago He suggests the Robomower, made by Friendly Robotics, which he says has "the best market penetration of any robotic lawnmower for the consumer. …

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(Credit: Mower Magic) If BattleBots were mashed up with Roombas and rumbled in the backyard, it might resemble the hotly competitive landscape of today’s robotic lawnmowers. Robo-mowers like the LawnBott and Auto Mower are always searching for new gimmicks to distinguish themselves, such as going hybrid with solar energy….
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