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| Los robots medusa de Festo | | 2008-05-07 04:21:39 | | Aquajelly y Airjelly son los dos robots medusa artificiales creados por Festo, empresa Alemana dedicada a la robótica y automatización de procesos.
Aquajelly es una medusa artificial formada por una semiesfera translucida y ocho tentáculos que utiliza para desplazarse en el agua, ejecutando movimientos de modo independiente a través de un sistema mecánico inteligente, de la [...] | | By: Mare Magnum | | |
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| Oxford and Pugwash’s Robots Readied For Competition | | 2008-05-02 02:54:46 | | This news comes from Oxford and Pugwash, road to EAST robotics competition held by tommorow…
Students at two local high schools are hoping their boxes of nuts, bolts and spare parts will become robots capable of capturing a pirate’s flag this weekend.
The students are preparing for the annual Robots EAST robotics competition in Fredericton on May [...] | | By: Robotics Technology | | |
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| "Making robots and electronic gadgets"- For future engineers | | 2008-04-27 11:36:31 | | Being an educator, although I have to deal with reception years classes, but personally I am fond of making stuff, either it is with blocks, machanics sets or other science projects. I remember my school going days, when my father gave me a "mechanics" set, alongwith screws, bolts, screwdriver and all the parts which can make car, plane, furniture and lot of models out of it. I was really addicted to my construction set, and for 2 or 3 years I played with it.Still I have addiction of those construction kits, and now I buy those kits for my son who is 9 years old and fond of electronics and building kits.I fould this site Hobby Engineering during my search for "hobbies" and found it quite interesting. It is for students and adults who have an interest in creating "stuff" using technology.More about the site:(In their own words)Hobby Engineering alludes to the process of creating high tech inventions, toys and art while developing leading edge knowledge and skills and having fun!Some o | | By: Hobbies and hobbies | | |
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| Futuristic robots, friend or foe? | | 2008-04-22 11:15:49 | | A leading robotics expert will outline some of the ethical pitfalls of near-future robots to a Parliamentary group today (22 April 2008) at the House of Commons. Professor Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield will explain that robots are in many ways beneficial to mankind, but there are limitations and we should proceed with caution.
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| RoboCup German Open: La liga de los robots | | 2008-04-22 01:03:52 | | RoboCup German Open, es una competición que se celebra desde hoy a hasta el 25 de Abril, enfrentando a equipo de ingenieros de diversos países. Serán sus robots quienes les peguen las patadas al balón. Van equipados con cámaras y sensores de última tecnología, procesadores que les permiten “idear” tácticas de juego y estrategias [...] | | By: Mi Ventana | | |
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| Film: Robots | | 2008-04-18 13:25:00 | | TITOLO: RobotsNAZIONE: USAGENERE: AnimazioneDURATA: 91 min.DATA DI USCITA: 2005REGIA: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha L’ingenuo robot Rodney figlio di un umile lavapiatti parte per Robot City per inseguire il sogno di fare l’inventore; li’ apprende che il suo eroe, l’industriale Bigweld, è stato usurpato da un avido capitalista che intende rendere obsoleti i robot più vecchi.Rodney decide di restare a Robot City per combattere i capitalista.E’ un racconto di formazione di alto valore educativo, dal ritmo serrato ma non frenetico, con un intreccio avvincente e ricco di gag spassose.L’aspetto vincente del film è l’umanizzazione grafica delle macchine, l’invenzione di un nuovo mondo fatto di robot-uomini.Apprezzato dai critici e dal pubblico. | | By: Recensioni Film | | |
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| ¿Quieres tener robots en tu cuarto como acompañantes o puertas? | | 2008-04-13 05:04:18 | | A mi me daría bastante miedo tener un bicharraco de estos en mi cuarto pero oye, que siempre está el típico friki que soñaría con tenerlo. Je je je.
Y además todo son ventajas, éste de la izqda por ejemplo, se llama CYLON, sólo pesa 129,63Kg, nada, una miseria para transportarlo y llevártelo donde [...] | | By: SoyGik | | |
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| Forex Robots - Learn To Spot Curve Fitted Systems Or Lose | | 2008-04-10 15:27:00 | | Many forex traders want to use forex robots and make automatic forex profits but if you want to follow a forex trading system then you need to be able to spot curve fitting or you will lose...So what is curve fitting?Curve fitting is testing a system over back data and bending the rules of the system to fit the data. This is similar to shooting at a barn door with a blindfold on and then drawing a bulls-eye around everyone afterwards!Most forex robots you see are curve fitted and a good clue is - if you see the disclaimer below with the track record read it very carefully!"CFTC RULE 4.41 - Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not been executed, the results may have under-or-over compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that | | By: Learn Forex | | |
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| Army brings armed robots home from Iraq over control issues | | 2008-04-10 15:19:00 | | Filed under: RobotsAlthough other countries have deployed gun-toting robots and there's no shortage of companies trying to develop weaponized bots for Uncle Sam, it looks like the first test of actual killer robots in battle has ended in a whimper: the Army's TALON SWORD gunbots, are headed home, after being plagued with control issues. Yeah, that's right -- control issues. Apparently it was too hard to prevent the Army's gun-equipped robot from moving its gun "when it was not intended to move." Reassuring, no? The Army doesn't sound too enthused about another go-round, saying, "once you've done something that's really bad, it can take 10 or 20 years to try it again." Ouch. On the plus side, at least that's 20 more years before we're all put to work in the mines, no? Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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| Más robots en Firefox 3 Beta 5 | | 2008-04-09 00:00:54 | | En lo que vendría a ser la sección infantil de éste blog les cuento que que dentro de Firefox 3 Beta 5 hay más información a la cual podemos acceder ingresando a la dirección about:robots.
Ahi nos enteramos de que hemos sido invadidos por éstos amigables robots y que tienen un plan… veremos cual será.
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| Google Offers Robots.txt Generator | | 2008-03-29 04:52:19 | | Google’s rolled out a new tool at Google Webmaster Central, a robots.txt generator. It’s designed to allow site owners to easily create a robots.txt file, one of the two main ways (along with the meta robots tag) to prevent search engines from indexing content. Robots.txt generators aren’t new. You can find many of them out [...] | | By: Semaphore - Software Development Articles, IT News | | |
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| Robots gigantes en Japón y fantasmas oscuros en Argentina... | | 2008-03-27 18:39:00 | | Mejor dediquémosle estas líneas a los robots que tanto me fascinaron de pequeño y a la serie de la que mi amigo es casi experto. Por aquí hubo unos días bastantes raros en cuanto al clima (físico y político) y la verdad es que estuvimos viendo bastante tele y leyendo diarios.Pero lo mejor que leí fué esto que me mandó nuestro arquéologo de la red. Así que a partir de aquí, es todo palabra de Sergio..."Robotech"Hace algunos días el Pelado me comentó que fue a ver la fiesta de año nuevo, al barrio chino en Belgrano, en esta breve conversación que tuvimos recordamos aquella serie de animé que veíamos en nuestra adolescencia: “Robotech”... Me puse a investigar y descubrí algunas cosas interesantes como que: 1)- La saga "Robotech" fue emitida en 85 capítulos por la televisión estadounidense, recogiendo tres series japonesas que inicialmente no tenían nada que ver entre sí: "Súper Dimensional Fortress Macross", "Súper Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross" y "Géne | | By: De Partuza y algo mas.. | | |
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| Robots voladores ? | | 2008-03-24 13:55:00 | | Esta vez, la industria robótica de Japón, quizás la más desarrollada del mundo, se enfrenta en la actualidad al reto de dar el salto desde los juguetes y los diseños de laboratorio hacia robots voladores. En esta competición de robótica se pueden ver diversos diseños que en un futuro no muy lejano se utilizarán en diversas tareas cotidianas e incluso para el desarrollo de investigaciones científicas. Via : 20Minutos.es | | By: Entre 2 Caras | | |
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| Robots! Watch out! | | 2008-03-22 03:30:34 | | photo credit: Cle0patra
Here’s an interesting paper on the role of robotics in a Lean environment; the conclusion:
Robots help achieve higher production quality at a reduced operating cost compared to manual manufacturing. They help produce more parts with fewer defects sing less equipment while maintaining their flexibility for future changes. Their capability is only [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
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| Japanese super robots invade italian fashion event | | 2008-03-22 00:54:00 | | Pitti Immagine Uomo, Grendizer Statues Inserito originariamente da Abriael It's not exactly news, since it dates back to january, but this has been a slow day/night, so I'm taking my time to talk about something quite funny. One of the most important italian events dedicated to men's fashion is Pitti Immagine Uomo, held in Florence. What does this have with videogames? Pretty much nothing, but actually this year it DID have something pretty peculiar, related to Anime to be precise.As a premise, we have to say that, in Italy, the super robot anime series Grendizer (renamed Goldrake in Italy and some other countries) by Go Nagai used to be extremely popular. So popular that many men that now are adults (me included, even if I have to say I was more interested in other series, such as Captain Harlock) can name it as one of the important factors of their youth .To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series, the designer and sculptor Oliviero Baldini created an impressive array of | | By: Classy Gamer | | |
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| Meta Robots Tag Syntax for SEO | | 2008-03-20 08:07:33 | |
I just wanted to post a quick blog about the Meta Robots tag. Quite often, we in the SEO world try to make sure that the code element of a page is small in comparison to the amount of visible text on the page.
So we move CSS formatting and JavaScript off the page into external files, and we encourage the use of "table-less design". However, we can be less than frugal with the meta robots tag, especially as each tag can be added in a separate line.
Therefore, amalgamating them all on one line gives you:
<meta name="robots" content ="index, follow, noodp,
noydir">
But there is an even shorter syntax, using the "all" reference instead of index and follow.
<meta name="robots" content ="all, noodp,
noydir">
But remember, if you are writing it for an XHTML site, then you'll need a training slash to make it validate!
<meta name="robots" content ="all, noodp,
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| Waste, Recycling, and Space: Where Are Our Recycling Robots? | | 2008-03-02 11:40:00 | | What is the world's ugliest building? Esquire says it's the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. The interesting thing about the hotel is that it's only ugly because it's not finished, but if you finished it and get it a nice color and flashy lights it could very well be the coolest hotel outside of Las Vegas. It looks like a spaceship, or a spired pyramid of sorts. If you spruced it up it would look awesome. Heck, you could even go as far as to make it a space-themed hotel! So what's the problem with the hotel other than it's ugly? Well, apparently it's unfinished and it will never be finished. That means that North Korea has poured millions of dollars into this thing only to quit a good portion of the way through for whatever reason. Rumors are it's because there is some structural problems, but I don't buy that. My guess is that they simply ran out of money, or stopped funding it, or some such. It seems too idiotic to build something so massive only to get | | By: The World in the Satin Bag | | |
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| Salmonella bacteria turned into cancer fighting robots | | 2008-03-01 19:03:33 | | Neil Forbes of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to research killing cancer tumors with Salmonella bacteria. Forbes turns the bacteria into tiny terminator robots that use their own flagella to venture deep into tumors where conventional chemotherapy can’t reach. Once in place, the bacteria manufacture drugs that trigger cancer cells to kill themselves.
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| Japan experiments with robots as part of daily life | | 2008-02-29 11:33:22 | | At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot -- dubbed Kansei, or "sensibility" -- responds to the word "war" by quivering in what looks like disgust and fear. It hears "love," and its pink lips smile.
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| UP-Robots: the birth of useful personal robotics | | 2008-02-29 06:31:55 | | According to Forbes, robots are going to be the next tech bubble. There's nothing really new going around the net these days, just fights over taking control of the next big thing, which is probably going to be old after a couple of months. Facebook is already going down, with lesser new subscriptions every day.A bubble is something that, by definition, is supposed to burst, sooner or later. The trick is to ride it while it's still full (of air), and to put your money in it while it's still taking shape. Robots are going to happen, sooner or later. They are going to take over a lot more of tasks around our houses, our places of work, our cities, our fields, our factories, even in our nice little battlefields abroad...Of course this is already happening, what's new is that it's going to happen right before our noses. Technology is getting cheaper, and something is going to hit big time our supermarket shelves and start a new trend, simplifying something that we do everyday. It's not goi | | By: :u:b:i:k:u:o: | | |
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| Killer military robots pose latest threat to humanity | | 2008-02-27 10:38:45 | | In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Professor Noel Sharkey, from the University´s Department of Computer Science, will express his concerns that we are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms race. He will warn that it may not be long before robots become a standard terrorist weapon to replace the suicide bomber.
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| Creando un Robots.txt para un Blog basado en WordPress | | 2008-02-26 19:09:37 | | Para aquéllos de ustedes que estén poco familiarizados con Robots.txt, es un archivo que los webmasters usan para ayudar a controlar qué aspectos de sus sitios Web son indexados por motores de búsqueda y que partes no lo son.
Ésta es una gran forma para darle control completo en la forma de cómo miran tu sitio [...] | | By: Bitácora de Jh®> Web 2.0 Rulz! | | |
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| Redes 233: Programados como robots | | 2008-02-26 13:16:10 | | Desde la Universidad de Nueva York, Eduard Punset entrevista al prestigioso cientÃfico Rodolfo Llinás, neurólogo de origen colombiano, uno de los mayores especialistas en la evolución del cerebro.
La historia de la evolución nos enseña que sólo tiene cerebro quien lo necesita. Hicieron falta 750 millones de años para que apareciera, y sólo lo hizo en [...] | | By: Documentales Tv-ON | | |
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| Robots.txt - Its definition and use | | 2008-02-22 03:10:00 | | Robots.txt : It is a file created by webmasters is a set of instructions for the search engines robots that index the web pages. This is
called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
It includes User-Agent and Disallow. Here is the meaning of these words as these are very important part of robots.txt file :
User-Agent : It is used for the search engine robots. It gives the permission to a particular or | | By: SamratHacks | | |
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| Rescuing Workers from Robots | | 2008-02-16 06:51:00 | | Many workers are afraid of losing their jobs — not to outsourcing, but to robots. The automotive industry, one of the first to invest in large-scale automation, has already weathered this storm. However, as robots become better at spatial awareness and "judgment," automation is moving into con | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
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| A new theory changes the thinking behind creating robots and smart machines | | 2008-02-14 11:45:17 | | Asim Roy, an information systems professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business, was on sabbatical at Stanford University in 1991 when several years of thinking about the operation of the brain and artificial systems inspired him to act. In a message to the leading Connectionist scholars, he threw down the gauntlet, challenging the prevailing school of thought and thereby the very foundations of the technologies behind smart machines and artificial intelligence.
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| FPS gamers to control future killer robots | | 2008-02-13 10:08:00 | | How far are we from killer robots and human controlled mechs? Not far.
"The whole point of robots is that they’re not human. When it comes to military ops, the upside of not being human is that robots can get blown up and it’s not such a big deal. The downside (and it’s a big downside) is that robots aren’t yet ready to make their own decisions in battle, meaning humans have to be in the loop | | By: Wasted Rant | | |
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| Great wind robots | | 2008-02-01 19:11:00 | | "For the past fifteen years, Theo Jansen has been creating (growing?) "beach animals" made from commonly available tools like plastic tubing, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, hose, tape, and all sorts of other stuff. Wired News did a pretty good article on Jansen earlier this year:- http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2005/1...Jansen is evolving an entirely new line of animals: immense multi-legged walking critters designed to roam the Dutch coastline, feeding on gusts of wind. Over the years, successive generations of his creatures have evolved into increasingly complex animals that walk by flapping wings in response to the wind, discerning obstacles in their path through feelers and even hammering themselves into the sand on sensing an approaching storm.It's hard to know where to begin in talking about what's so cool about Jansen's beach animals. They're evolved for one thing; he worked out the optimal 11-piece leg using evolutionary algorithms on a computer but now prefers to race h | | By: R2K - All the R thats fit 2K | | |
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| Robots Help Local Students Learn | | 2008-01-27 21:19:08 | | KINGDOM CITY, Mo. - Robots have invaded the North Callaway High School.
The good thing is that they were invited.
Math teacher Kevin O’Neal was inspired by his brother, who works in robotics maintenance, to create a new robotics and automation program at the high school level. The class is taught as part of an after school [...] | | By: Robotics Technology | | |
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| New Robotics Challenge Aims To Develop Friendly Highly Autonomous Robots | | 2008-01-24 21:08:22 | | The “ROBAUCO: mobile, autonomous and collaborative robots” project was recently initiated.* The principal objective of the project is the generation of the technologies necessary for the development of mobile robots able to carry out complex tasks with a high degree of autonomy and capacity for collaboration. These robots, moreover, have to share tasks with people [...] | | By: Robotics Technology | | |
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| Why Robots.txt? | | 2008-01-18 03:14:00 | | by Matt BenyaI am sure that a lot of you have heard of the file named robots.txt (also called a "robot exclusion file") before. But what does this file really pertain to? Basically you can think of a robots.txt file as a list of rules that search engines follow when they spider your site. A robots.txt file gives you the Webmaster a say in what does and does not get indexed when spiders come to your little corner of the web.Okay I can hear a few people asking why anyone would want to keep some things from being indexed. I thought the goal was to get indexed, right? Well yes and no, there are quite a few instances when blocking spider access to certain areas or pages is almost a must. Here are several examples of what a person might want to restrict access to: temporary files or directories, presentations, information with a specific sequential order, testing directories or cgi-bin. As you can see just from these few examples there are definitely files that you would most certainly want | | By: All of Web Design | | |
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| Robots seek role in automation drive | | 2008-01-13 23:36:25 | | From effortlessly lifting your car that weighs over 1,000 kg to painting it, inspecting it and even sending a text message in case of an emergency - you name the task and they will perform it with ease. In case you haven’t guessed it yet - it robots - and some [...] | | By: Robotics Technology | | |
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| Allen Van Wert: robots and empire | | 2008-01-08 16:40:35 | | News:
08-01-2008:
The robot man returns, fans here will know about Allen's insane techniques... well others don't... Allen Van Wert says: "This is my reply to the people saying my tapping and shred video was somehow fake or doctored up. I play the stuff slow and prove that I don't use any FX"
INSANE TAPPING AND SHRED REPLY
Allen Van Wert INSANE Tapping and shred
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| Fuwa robots and technology at the Olympics | | 2008-01-07 17:22:23 | | Another goal for China in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games is to show off their technological expertise. China will be launching their TD-SCDMA 3G network before the Olympics. China will also be releasing new environmentally cars.
Lastly, the article mentions the newly developed Fuwa robots. Fuwa are the mascots for the Beijing Olympics. [...] | | By: Beijing Olympics 2008 | | |
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| Robots | | 2007-12-12 05:39:07 | | Toyota developed a great new robotics. The concern has born the next generation of manlike robots. It´s 60 inch tall and weighs 125 pounds, can help at the household chores and in the geriatric care. The youngest model is so movable, it´s played on a violin. And this faultless! But not only Toyota created robots. Honda and Sony developed too. | | By: Pipsnet Technology | | |
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| Los Robots tambien estan full de Amor | | 2007-12-10 11:36:55 | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA
Una Increible Animacion de Robots, donde muestran algo mas que tecnologia: Amor, ( No vayan a pensar que estoy loco, solo me parecio un buen video =D)
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| 'Violin-playing', 'Mobility' Robots Launched by Toyota | | 2007-12-09 12:15:00 | | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) unveiled today two new robots, a "Mobility Robot" and a "Violin-playing Robot"—the newest additions to its Toyota Partner Robots being developed to support people's everyday life.Outline of new Toyota Partner Robots Name Mobility Robot Violin-playing Robot Main use Assistance with short-distance personal transport Assistance with domestic duties and nursing and medical care Features Can negotiate steps with independent vertical movement of left and right wheels, allowing it to assist in short-distance personal mobility - Has a traveling range of 20km on one hour of battery charge - Travels at up to 6km/h and capable of traversing a 10-degree gradient - Capable of following a person, allowing it to function as a porter | | By: Beta18>>Technology HotSpot | | |
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| Intestinal Robots | | 2007-11-27 08:01:51 | | Intestinal robots are artificial electromechanical systems – robots – that were designed for exploring the inner cavities and organs of the body, particularly the intestines and other parts of the digestive tract. Built to replace or provide an alternative to colonoscopy, currently the only option for taking a look inside the human body (this is [...] | | By: Scienceprog - Embedded Related Info | | |
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| Robots in Disguise | | 2007-11-26 23:30:00 | | They are always among us, living in disguise. Even in the year 1191, Optimus Prime and the other Autobots were there to protect us should the world need it... Via Nukuda | | By: X-Intelligence Krew | | |
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| Robots - the Future of Eldercare | | 2007-11-19 21:33:12 | | Advances in technology have been astounding over the last decade. Electronics are starting to be built into everything from vacuums to toothbrushes and slowly, but surely, computers will become an invaluable part of every aspect of daily living. Someday, you’ll be able to take a shower and the bathroom will not only detect you, it [...] | | By: Robotics Technology | | |
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| Japanese Robots | | 2007-10-26 15:22:48 | | Fantastic examples of Japanese innovation, coming on the same day that it’s been reported that:
A microscopic robot small enough to travel through blood vessels has been built by scientists. Less than a millimetre in size, the robot walks like a crab on six legs and has been designed to clear blocked arteries. It was [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
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| SEX AND MARRIAGE WITH ROBOTS ??? | | 2007-10-18 14:05:25 | | Technology now going to be your life partner. Sounds astonishing? Human will be marry a robot and also can involve in sex within a century. It assumed by a researcher of artificial intelligence, David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands._________________________________According to him around 2050 it will be possible, and Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize human-robot marriage. He also said that, now it would sounds odd, but when it will just start then it will be so much popular for sure.The incident of romance between a human and a mechanical creation is came from very past. In the Greek myth Pygmalion falling in love with the ivory statue he made named Galatea, to which the goddess Venus eventually granted life.According to Levy, now a days a robot becomes so much close to a human in every field.So sex and marry with a robot is not so much fictitious from now. He also added that,"It may sound a little weird, but it isn't, Love and sex with robots are inevitable."__________________________________Psychologists have gathered, a lots of reasons which make a people to fall in love. And it will be used to form the robot. All the reasons by which a human falls in love with other is programmable and will be injected into the robot, Levy thinks.Levy also thinks it will work greatly for those people "who find it hard to form relationships, because they are extremely shy, or have psychological problems, or are just plain ugly or have unpleasant personalities. Of course, such people who completely give up the idea of forming relationships with other people are going to be few and far between, but they will be out there." - the most beneficial part of this invention.An Online Guide | | By: MESSENGER EXPRESS | | |
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| Robots.txt Guide | | 2007-10-17 05:40:51 | | What is robots.txt?
Robots.txt is a TEXT FILE which instructs search engine spiders or crawlers on what to do. It tells specific web spiders on which specific web pages to index. Just by tweaking this file, you will be able to command the spiders to crawl or not to crawl certain files in your site.
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| Research: Humans will wed robots | | 2007-10-12 23:11:12 | | "MAASTRICHT, Netherlands, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The University of Maastricht in the Netherlands is awarding a doctorate to a researcher who wrote a paper on marriages between humans and robots.David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher at the college, wrote in his thesis, "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners," that trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners.Levy's conclusion was based on about 450 publications in the fields of psychology, sexology, sociology, robotics, materials science, artificial intelligence, gender studies and computer-human interaction.The thesis examines human attitudes toward affection, love and sexuality and concluded that the findings are just as applicable to human interaction with robots of the future as they are to the relationships between humans of today."Source: Breitbart.comOn one hand that's sort of depressing, humans having to resort to robots for companionship and love. On the other hand, if the robots are anything like Aegis or Leviathan, maybe KOS-MOS, bring it on. | | By: Poopsies - Toys, Anime, Manga, Video Games, etc. | | |
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| CHINA TO SEND FLYING ROBOTS TO ANTARCTICA | | 2007-09-13 22:07:32 | | China first time will going to send a robot that can work in ice in an Atractica expedit-ion. It is assumed that it will reduce the risk and cost in in scientific research. A report said that, the project will start on october 2007, will use a tank-like robot that can not only easily move through ice, but also fly through low-altitude. It's weight is about 200kg, and it can carry 40kg easily and can pull 100kg within working radius of 25km. It has a differential global positioning system (DGPS) and a meteorological observation device by which the robot can easily automatically stride across ice crevices and snowy slopes. According to the report, another robot, of 20kg and with a flying speed of50 to 100 km/hour will be there. It has an infra-red radiometer for observing ice on the sea and an aerial camera. The Chinese expedition team of 219 explorers will be in 2 seismic station in Antarctica to measure tremors and tectonic movements on the continent. | | By: MESSENGER EXPRESS | | |
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| robots.txt en blogger.com | | 2007-09-13 17:21:00 | | Verificando el blog, encuentro que ahora blogger incluye un robots.txt con las lineas:User-agent: *Disallow: /searchEsto significa que los amigos de blogger.com impiden que los buscadores indexen todo el contenido bajo la ruta http://tudominio.com/search.En otras palabras, los buscadores no indexaran tus etiquetas (labels).Parece que blogger no duda en ser autoritario, ya que ni siquiera tienes la opción de modificar dicho archivo.Realmente no entiendo cual es la justificación de implementar esta restricción, sin siquiera consultar a los autores.Parece algo poco inteligente, porque el contenido que archivo si pude indexarse.Se supone que si clasifico en categorías, es porque será de más utilidad para el lector, ¿no?Dado a que tu blog es propiedad de blogger.com y este no permite modificar la mencionada restricción, podríamos interpretar la acción de blogger como; al que no le guste que se vayaAl Sr. responsable de dicho Disallow; bien igual | | By: Bitácora del Desarrollador | | |
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| I, Robot: How Do Search Engine Spiders and Robots Work? | | 2007-08-23 19:26:00 | | By: Philip NicosiaSome internet surfers still hold on to the mistaken belief that actual people visit each and every website and then input it for inclusion in the search engine's database. Imagine, if these were true! With billions of websites available on the internet and with a majority of these sites offering fresh content it will take thousands of people to achieve the tasks made by search engine spiders and robots - and even then they won't be as efficient or as thorough.Search engine spiders and robots are pieces of code or software that have only one aim - seek content on the internet and within each and every individual web page out there. These tools have a very important role in how effectively search engines operate.Search engine spiders and robots visit websites and get the necessary information that it needs to determine the nature and content of the website and then adds the data to the search engine's index. Search engine spiders and robots follow links from one webs | | By: Get Paid, Work at Home | | |
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| How to use Robots.txt file effectively | | 2007-08-21 19:44:39 | | Robots.txt file can be used to prevent search engines from indexing the parts of your web sites. Some times you don’t want to index sensitive pages of your web pages then robots.txt file can be useful. Also robots.txt file is a good option to avoid duplicate content penalties by search engines.
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| Armed robots to go to war in Iraq | | 2007-08-07 02:31:00 | | American forces have deployed robots equipped with automatic weapons in Iraq, the first battlefield use of machines capable of waging war by remote control. A US division of British defence company QinetiQ revealed that the 3rd Infantry Division, which is based south of Baghdad, purchased three Talon Sword robots for operations in Iraq. Sword robots are a modified version of track-wheeled bomb disposal devices in use around the world. Soldiers operate the robots with a specially modified laptop, complete with joystick controls and a ’kill button’ that terminates its functions if it goes awry. According to the industry magazine, Defence News the US military has 80 remote controlled armoured robots on order but funding constraints has delayed delivery. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Immigration, puddle of water, robots and sushi. | | 2007-07-09 15:44:00 | | Work at AEON is going smoother and quicker these days, haven't had any lesson preparation sessions until 5 A.M. recently:). Instead I've been enjoying my evenings with doing none-work-related-stuff, like watching movies or studying Japanese and it's great! Saturdaynight, Yasu was back in Inuyama and picked me up from work. He met my coworkers and saw the school, and it was pretty weird and distracting to have him there, but it was fun to show him where I spend most of my time.Today, we went to Nagoya to get me a re-entry permit at the immigration office. Foreigners living and working in Japan on a visa need to get such a permit if they want to travel abroad and be allowed back into the country afterwards. It's very important, because if you don't get one they really won't let you back in and that effectively ends your job and life in Japan. And as I am very eager to go home for Obon week but not willing to say goodbye to my Japanese life just yet, I needed to get one. I was prepared to do a couple hours of waiting in a stale government's office, but it turned out to be very quick and we were done in about 20 minutes! The office was stale and sticky though...After the necessary stuff was done we set out to enjoy a day in Sakae, Nagoya's shopping district. At first we couldn't really find something enjoyable to do, so we were prepared to give up and catch a 1800 yen movie in some cinema. But we couldn't find one because apparently there aren't any cinemas in Sakae. Finally the nice ladies at the Sakae Station information booth gave us some alternative things to do. We spend a fair amount of time at the roof of the station where they have a big puddle (as Yasu put it) of water with fake whales sprouting water and a nice view of Sakae's version of the Eiffel Tower. It was very relaxing to hang out there and enjoy the music coming from the station underneath.We also went to what they called a robot museum, but looked more like a robot shop to me, nonetheless it was still fun to see the different kind of the robots on display there. Of course, they had the famous vacuuming robot and also a big boombox ball for your iPod which will dance and roll around your apartment.All men have little boys inside of them, and so does Yasu. He really enjoyed playing with these puzzle-like building blocks and afterwards he proudly showed me the face he made. Aren't little boys cute?!We also found these cute little guys somewhere in the robotshop, who all peacefully moved their heads from one side to the other. At first the whole sight came across as a little creepy, but after looking at them for a while we decided they were very relaxing to look at... Of course my favorite was the pink one, which apparently brings you luck in love, well I'm pretty lucky in that area already :).Just before Yasu had to catch his shinkansen back to Osaka, we had dinner at a kaiten sushi (a.k.a. conveyor belt sushi) place! Believe it or not this is the first time since my arrival in Japan that I had sushi (I've had some loads of sashimi though)! The sushi was pretty good and not too expensive, but Yasu is still planning to take me to Sushiro, a kaiten sushi in Amagasaki which is supposed to amazing and incredibly cheap. Well, perhaps we'll try that next week. The coming two weekends I'm going to Osaka to spend some time with Yasu's friends and family, but most importantly to spend time with him before he departs on his month-long-trip to San Francisco! My favorite city in the States, yes I am slightly jealous! But hey I get to go home for Obon and my birthday, what could be better than that?!And I have been cooking on a regular basis too! After Yasu introduced me to his version of yakiniku (Korean BBQ) during our weekend in Rurikei, I have been copying it all week. Japanese sesame dressing makes every salad taste awesome and the yakiniku tare (sauce) adds a great taste to any meat or vegetable cooked in my new grilling pan! | | By: The Loulogue | | |
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| The Best Beer Robots | | 2007-06-25 17:45:54 | |
Robots make our life easy. They perform repetitive tasks for us without complaining. If I only had an industrial robot laying around that I could convert into a beer opener! Have a look at the Hacked Gadgets top picks of Beer Robots. What is your favorite?
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| Fruit-picking robots closer to reality | | 2007-06-21 20:05:13 | |
It looks like Vision Robotics’ would-be fleet of agriculture robots is getting a little closer to reality, with the previous crude 2D sketches of ‘em now replaced with slightly less crude 3D models (among other developments). Last we heard from the company, its scout robot was still a long ways from hitting the farm, but Wired News is now reporting that Vision expects to have a prototype of it ready sometime next year, with the larger harvester bot expected to follow two or three years after that. As before, the company plans to have the scout robots plot out the best fruit-picking route, which the harvester would then follow, grabbing hard to reach fruit with the utmost delicacy — no doubt picking up a few humans’ jobs along the way. | | By: Information Popular Technologies Review | | |
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| Light Robots | | 2007-06-17 14:05:47 | | I remember reading somewhere the other day that C3PO was viewed as the politically correct character in Star Wars. Why? Well aside from speaking some 6 million languages the neurotic cyborg did display some vaguely homosexual mannerisms.
Now, considering that Star Wars was released in the '70's I doubt that accounting for the gay market was top of George Lucas' mind (although one can argue that he was aiming to cater for the degenerate market with Jar-Jar Binks 22 years later).
Whatever C3PO's sexuality one simply cannot imagine him cracking open a Castle Lager to watch the latest Springbok game with a bunch of his mates. But maybe, he would have felt a little more at home with this beverage:
Comment on "Light Robots" | | By: Top-notch South African eMarketing blog | | |
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| Robots Are Coming… | | 2007-05-25 01:10:01 | | If you have ever seen The Terminator you know that at some point a robot uprising will be upon us. Forntunately, tastybooze is here for your edification on survival (for much more, check out this website) .
- Survival Method 1: Pose as a Broken Humanoid Robot
This is in hopes that the robots just pass you by during their destruction, thinking you are one of them. Some of the key’s to this method include: making noise such as an occasional “beep” or “boop” sound and moving like a robot, i.e. very abrubtly while constantly maintaining perfect 90 degree angles. The latter of course only works because you are broken. Contemporary robots are more dexterous. Pretend you are either damaged machinery or a well-oiled break-dancing machine, and pop and lock your way into the heart of robot territory.
- Survival Method 2: Hand-to-Hand Combat
If you find yourself in a brawl with a robot, your only hope is to escape. A robot | | By: Where the Boggs are Always Cold | | |
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| Robots futboleros | | 2007-05-17 01:12:00 | | En este video vemos dos tipos de robots diseñados para cumplir una determinada función: jugar al fútbol. Como casi siempre sucede con los robots, los no-humanoides son los más eficientes.De todas formas hay que darle crédito a los robots humanoides por su gran destreza: yo no podría hacer tales piruetas.Traten de soportar las partes del las entrevistas que el resto vale la pena :DBlogalaxia: robots humanoides futbol football robotica video tecnologia ~ Technorati: robots humanoides futbol football robotica video tecnologia ~ AgregaX: robots humanoides | | By: mas Tecno | | |
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| Robots al ring | | 2007-05-07 01:48:00 | | Es evidente que los japoneses son muy hábiles diseñando robots pero esto es sorprendente.Diganme si no concuerdan conmigo :DBlogalaxia: robotica robot japones robots lucha boxeo boxing japon ~ Technorati: robotica robot japones robots lucha boxeo boxing japon ~ AgregaX: robotica robot japones robots lucha boxeo boxing japon | | By: mas Tecno | | |
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| Yahoo Releases Robots Tag for Blocking Specific Content | | 2007-05-02 23:10:00 | | This morning Search Engine Land released details of a "robots-nocontent" tag that has just been adopted by Yahoo. The tag will allow site owners to block portions of a page from searches. This means that blocked content will still be indexed by Yahoo!'s search engine spider but it will not be among the searchable content at Yahoo.What would be the purpose of such a robots-nocontent tag? Perhaps you have a few paragraphs of generic content duplicated across several pages of your website and you are suspicious the dupe content is hampering rankings. In this case you can now block that specific content from searches and test your assumptions. It remains to be seen how well this tag will work but it is always favorable to have more tools in the optimization tool chest.ImplementationThe new tag must be included as a "class" in these exact words "robots-nocontent" and can be included anywhere in the page. If wide areas need to be blocked then simply use DIV tags to encapsulate the content.A | | By: The SEO Blog | | |
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| Use Robots.txt, Save the World | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | Robots.txt Help the Search Engines Learn All About Your Website
There is a growing interest in the little known file that every website should have in the root directory: robots.txt
It's a very simple text file you can find all about at the robotstxt.org website.
Why should you use it ? Here are ... | | By: Isulong SeoPh | | |
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