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Watch out Bad Guys, Here Come the Bots

The assurance of mutual destruction was a profoundly effective peace keeper between the USA and the USSR.  There is no equivalent threat today against the scattered terrorists deliberately embedded within innocent society across so many countries–a tactic that only works against their civilized enemies such as the USA.  Our effort to create and deploy robotic [...]

Observations Portend Robotic Inclusion in Society

In a fascinating study carried out by Javier Movellan from the University of California, San Diego, researchers observed toddlers accepting a humanoid robot as a peer.
In previous similar studies, children quickly got bored with the robot. In this study children accepted the robot and in some cases even nurtured it. The robot was [...]

Like an iRobot Looj but much, much smaller

While iRobot has been busy designing robots for cleaning your gutters, a team at Chonnam National University in Korea has been busy designing another robotic pipe cleaner. In this case, the pipes are human arteries.
News of this robot was recently covered in The Telegraph:

A microscopic robot small enough to travel [...]

Observations of Adoption Trends in Robotics

Selling products to businesses is a relatively quantifiable endeavor. A business customer calculates the cost of his investment and compares it to his projected increased revenue. If his revenue exceeds his cost then the purchase is deemed to have been worth the investment. The higher and sooner the return, the better the investment. [...]

OP ED: U.S. Working to Render its Own Military Robots Impotent

This article started out an effort to dig into the interesting and sociological ramifications of developing and embedding a conscience into robots as Ronald Arkin of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing is working to do. I read article after article in order to find and stitch together the technology thread. Instead I [...]