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Brown's hero is Transformer Optimus Prime - Daily Telegraph


During a local radio interview to coincide with his regional "recession tour" of the country, the Prime Minister confessed that he would benefit from the problem solving skills of the cartoon character Optimus Prime, robot hero of the Transformers ...


9 Jan 2009

BBC Two Programmes Horizon Where's My Robot? - bbc


Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavigates the globe searching for robot nirvana, trying ...


9 Jan 2009

Plen the world champion robot fails to survive credit crunch’s ... - Times Online


Japanese sports fans have stoically watched Honda pull out of Formula One; its housewives have quietly endured cutbacks on sushi and karaoke and have been forced to suffer repeats of television soap operas; even the toiling salaryman is making do ...


9 Jan 2009

Domo Arigato - Reason.com


Robots are not quite up to Asmovian levels worldwide yet, sadly. But we've hit about 1 million industrial robots worldwide. Check out the distribution of robots about the globe , from IEEE: Unsurprisingly, Japan is kicking serious metallic ass. And ...


9 Jan 2009

Chinese farmer and robot inventor cranks into gear - Reuters


BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Wu Yulu has burned down his house, sprayed himself with battery acid, driven his wife to contemplate divorce and openly admits he loves a few contraptions made from scrap metal more than his own children. But the self ...


9 Jan 2009

WALL-E (dub) - Finnkino


What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides ...


9 Jan 2009

Japan researchers unveil robot suit for farmers (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


YAHOO - Japan researchers unveil robot suit for farmers (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Japanese researchers have unveiled a robot suit designed to help reduce the heavy burden of harvesting as the nation's farm industry faces an ageing, shrinking workforce.


9 Jan 2009

Plen the world champion robot fails to survive credit crunch’s terminal tackle (Times Online)


YAHOO - Plen the world champion robot fails to survive credit crunch’s terminal tackle (Times Online)Japanese sports fans have stoically watched Honda pull out of Formula One; its housewives have quietly endured cutbacks on sushi and karaoke and have been forced to suffer repeats of television soap operas; even the toiling salaryman is making do without his usual postwork beer.


9 Jan 2009

'Devious Machinations' begins work on robot (Park Rapids Enterprise)


YAHOO - About a dozen Nevis students have started creating a robot for competition in April.


9 Jan 2009

Video: Business robot debuts at CES (EETimes)


YAHOO - Video: Business robot debuts at CES (EETimes)Trevor Blackwell, founder of startup Anybots, rolled out QA at the Consumer Electronics Show, a robot that acts as a webcam and phone on wheels, letting users visit remote colleagues by navigating the five-foot bot via a Web browser.


9 Jan 2009

Research Shows Combined Use Of A Robot And Virtual Reality System Improve Walking Speed And Distance Post-Stroke (Medical News Today)


YAHOO - Research Shows Combined Use Of A Robot And Virtual Reality System Improve Walking Speed And Distance Post-Stroke (Medical News Today)Patients who've had a stroke and were rehabilitated using a robot to navigate virtual reality environments walked faster and a greater distance following physical therapy compared to those trained with the robot alone, according to researchers at the UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions.


9 Jan 2009

Japan researchers unveil robot suit for farmers (AFP via Yahoo! News)


YAHOO - Japan researchers unveil robot suit for farmers (AFP via Yahoo! News)Japanese researchers on Friday unveiled a robot suit designed to help reduce the heavy burden of harvesting as the nation's farm industry faces an ageing, shrinking workforce.


9 Jan 2009

Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources » Settlement likely in bitter ...


Robot 6 Archive. Settlement likely in bitter Watchmen dispute [Update] ... Search Robot 6. Advertise here! Advertise here! Advertise here! ... Browse the Robot 6 Archives. Select Month, January 2009 (60). Subscribe to Robot 6 ...


9 Jan 2009

Topless Robot - Breaking: Watchmen Might Not Be F@#ked


Because everyone in Hollywood is a two-faced liar. Yay!


9 Jan 2009

Random Robot Roundup


Long time robots.net contributor Roland Piquepaille passed away this week. True to form he submitted two last stories just days before he died: one on the use of AI to predict heart attacks and one on a robotic Cyberknife used to treat ...


9 Jan 2009

Robot Evolution - Popped Culture


A life viewed through the lens of entertainment. It's a pop culture world, I just live in it.


9 Jan 2009

Robot King | CollectionDX


This guy actually came boxed instead of carded. The box looks great, and for a bootleg the packaging is top notch. The toy comes packaged in the combined robot mode, but we will break it down from the individual components. Robot King ...


9 Jan 2009

ROBOTS DREAMS: Robot Sightings:


Include discussions on all types of robots and provides the chance to interact with the magazine authors and contributors. RoboKojo. New, very professionally executed, robot forum with discussions on every aspect of hobby and humanoid ...


9 Jan 2009