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Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

...What about a robot companion while you're driving? The Aida project has designed a robot... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Thought-controlled robot arm created by US scientists

...thought. Two people paralyzed by strokes have been able to move a robot arm using their thoughts, after having an electrode-containing device implanted in... Read more

17 May, 2012 by Jo Best
<endeca_term>Robot</endeca_term> gives Usain Bolt a run for his money

Robot gives Usain Bolt a run for his money

...We've seen running bipedal robots before, but they tend to move like, well, robots. Ryuma Niiyama of... Read more

29 December, 2010 by Leslie Katz
Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine

Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine

...developments to celebrate Halloween. Here's an old, spooky favourite. The BigDog robot, which lopes along at around 4mph, moves unnervingly like a real canine... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Ben Woods
Inside Nokia's phone-testing facility

Inside Nokia's phone-testing facility

...Elsewhere, another robot has responsibility for wiggling the phone cable around.For more on this... Read more

13 October, 2011 by Jessica Dolcourt
Inside Lego's Danish factory

Inside Lego's Danish factory

...Here we see a small robot adding hands to a mini-figure.Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News... Read more

29 August, 2011 by Daniel Terdiman

Robot zoo: World's best animal-inspired automata

Robot bird Automation technology company Festo has recreated the flight of a bird... Read more

12 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Photos: Robots through the ages: From lunar explorers to emotional machines

...You might not be able to tell immediately but the robot pictured above was modelled after a kangaroo. Known as Uniroo, the hopping... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Nick Heath
Science Museum throws Robotville parade

Science Museum throws Robotville parade

...Museum has opened its doors on a four-day display of 20 robots from around Europe. Robotville 2011, which began on Thursday, is designed to... Read more

2 December, 2011 by Ben Woods
<endeca_term>Robots</endeca_term> bake, fly and kick at US labs

Robots bake, fly and kick at US labs

...One trend in robotics is to design robots that mimic biology, such as this one made at Harvard University's... Read more

26 December, 2011 by Martin LaMonica
CeBIT: Portrait-drawing <endeca_term>robot</endeca_term> finds its muse

CeBIT: Portrait-drawing robot finds its muse

...The robot points directly at a subject to take her photo before drawing a... Read more

8 March, 2012 by Stephen Shankland
CES: <endeca_term>Robots</endeca_term> talk, massage and clean floors

CES: Robots talk, massage and clean floors

...Anybots chief executive Trevor Blackwell hits CES with QB, a telepresence robot that the company will start shipping this year. Priced at $15,000... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Tim Hornyak
<endeca_term>Robot</endeca_term> innovations dance, lift and wash hair

Robot innovations dance, lift and wash hair

...If films and science fiction tell us anything, it's that robots have the potential to take over the world and kill us all... Read more

30 September, 2010 by Leslie Katz and Shannon Doubleday

Robot photos: AI androids to footballing humanoids

...from CeBIT 2011... This year's CeBIT technology conference in Germany included robots of all shapes and sizes. silicon.com presents a selection of the... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Nick Heath
Six weird and wonderful robotics projects

Six weird and wonderful robotics projects

...Rather like the Huggable robots, Nao is a robotic concept designed to gently coax humans into accepting... Read more

26 December, 2010 by Jon Yeomans

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Lonnie

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

16 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

19 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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