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New app store caters to robot fans
If you want to waltz with your Roomba or remotely control your flying AR Drone, there's an online store that sells apps that let you do those things, and more. In fact, there are more than 300 apps available at the new site, RobotAppStore.com.
By Johanna Ambrosio | 09 April, 2012 23:26
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iRobot unveils robotic navigator
Ever wish you had someone to help visitors find their way through your business or to guide executives through a manufacturing plant?
By Sharon Gaudin | 11 January, 2012 06:31
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Cyborg plants render humans even more obsolete
The cyborg plant is not a new concept. The robot plant replacement is even less new: You can buy one for a price of $4.19 from ThinkGeek, after all. But a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich isn't interested in solar-powered plastic toys or surgically-altered self-lighting plants that hang on a wall (creepy!) -- they're giving plants the ability to feed, water, and sun themselves, by augmenting them with iRobot technology and wheels.
By Rachel Martin | 21 September, 2011 04:25
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What the robots saw: Inside Fukushima nuclear power plant
A stepladder bent and broken against a rack of electrical equipment, debris covering the ground, on-screen radiation readings in the red zone. These are the first images provided by robots from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the massive March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami led to the world's second-worst nuclear accident.
By Martyn Williams | 21 April, 2011 04:03
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Robots enter Fukushima reactor building for first time
A pair of remote controlled robots entered a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday morning for the first time.
By Martyn Williams | 18 April, 2011 02:07
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