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AT&T finds a SECOND Jim Henson robot film

Posted January 30, 2012 - 10:42 am

The folks at the AT&T Archives have uncovered another Jim Henson gem, a film that he made for the Bell Data Communications Seminar in 1963.
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AT&T unearths rare Jim Henson robot video

Posted January 23, 2012 - 4:36 pm

This is amazing - AT&T today released this 1963 film created for The Bell System by Muppet creator Jim Henson, featuring a robot that talks about how great machines are compared to human beings.
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Sundance film about a man and robot gets early buzz

Posted January 23, 2012 - 11:03 am

A film that's getting some significant buzz at the Sundance Film Festival is "Robot and Frank", a futuristic movie about a cranky old man and a caretaker robot.
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Japanese spider robot can pick up 'prey' and carry them away

Posted December 14, 2011 - 10:14 am

I still have nightmares from the '80s film "Runaway", in which bad-guy Gene Simmons (minus the Kiss makeup) stalks good-guy cop Tom Selleck with a slew of spider-robots that can kill with their pincer arms.
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Robots get cuter, smarter and creepier

Posted December 1, 2011 - 3:10 pm

Two new robots that are learning lots of new things, like how to identify objects and themselves.
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Squishy robot wiggles into tight spaces

Posted November 29, 2011 - 2:33 pm

Harvard scientists helping out with the creation of robots that will destroy us all someday.
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Ladder-climbing robots means there's fewer places to hide

Posted November 28, 2011 - 12:07 pm

Whenever I joke about robots gaining more and more abilities in their eventual plan to destroy humanity, there's always the feeling that as long as the robots can't climb stairs, then humans can likely escape if things go wrong.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a dancing robot!

Posted November 24, 2011 - 6:06 am

While you're digesting your Thanksgiving dinner and watching the latest football games, do some more multi-tasking and check out this video from Peter Fankhauser during a recent TEDtalk (at TEDGlobal), in which he demonstrates Rezero, a robot that can balance itself on a ball.
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Robot Rides a Bicycle

Posted November 11, 2011 - 10:42 am

From our friends in Japan, we end out the week of cool robot videos with a bipedal robot riding a bicycle, using only its arms to steer and make balance corrections.
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Human raises stakes in robot/Rubik's cube battle

Posted October 25, 2011 - 12:51 pm

Just when I thought I lost all hope in humanity's battle against the robots, out comes a video that restores my faith in the species. Yes, young David Calvo provides us with this video of himself not only solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand, but juggling two solved cubes at the same time.
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Robot triathlete challenges human dominance on Ironman course

Posted September 15, 2011 - 11:19 am

Multi-sport endurance robot Evolta will run Ironman course in three different bodies, stopping to change batteries when it gets tired. Heck, Icould do that.
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Robot Goalie Rocks

Posted August 19, 2011 - 12:43 pm

Bring it on, Beckham...
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Robot shoots pool, not sure if it calls its shots

Posted June 6, 2011 - 9:24 am

Ya got trouble, my friends...
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Robot pitcher cracks major league baseball's titanium ceiling

Posted April 20, 2011 - 12:54 pm

A quickie robotics project called PhillieBot threw out the first pitch in Philadelphia Monday, doing a worse job for more money than a pitching machine would have managed.
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CES: Can robots replace a human touch? (Video)

Posted January 6, 2011 - 8:08 pm

The robot zone at CES offers several impressive mechanical assistants, but can the same technology that powers your Roomba really match a human when it comes to something personal like a back massage?
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Slovenian Vending-Machine Assembly Robot Beats Assemblers

Posted October 14, 2010 - 7:54 pm

Some allege robot was programmed for beating; no hint the
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Towel-folding robot as yet no threat to human launderers

Posted April 22, 2010 - 7:54 pm

Video evidence shows that the robot is shockingly slow.
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Dept. of corrections: Defense contractors not building flesh-eating robot monsters after all

Posted August 4, 2009 - 8:51 am

The confusion began with a reporter's misunderstanding of the term "biomass."
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Coolest Robots of 2009

Posted July 30, 2009 - 4:31 pm

The latest wave of robot technology can enrich and save lives. Some of the coolest robots highlighted here perform a variety of duties in the health care and military fields.
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8 robots that could kill us all

Posted July 28, 2009 - 1:43 pm

Real-life robots that can eat flesh, run through your veins and blow up missiles.
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The hidden victims of unemployment: Japanese robots

Posted July 21, 2009 - 9:00 am

Hopefully mass robo-unemployment won't bring forward the day of the inevitable robot revolt.
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When the robot from Lost in Space is configured with Google Voice

Posted July 17, 2009 - 1:48 pm

Danger! IT support!
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Future military robot to feed on corpses

Posted July 16, 2009 - 3:26 pm

One defense contractor is working on a steam-powered rover that converts biological material to electric power by feasting on grass, wood, old furniture ... uh, and did we mention human corpses?
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Latest terrifying Japanese robot produces ghastly parodies of emotions

Posted July 2, 2009 - 8:00 am

KOBIAN is a metal humanoid with 48 "actuators" that allow it to mimic the body posture and facial expressions that correspond to real human moods.
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12 Favorite robot pickup lines

Posted June 9, 2009 - 3:00 pm

Now that #robotpickuplines has been dropped from Twitter's trending topics list -- replaced by the lofty #crapsuperpowers -- it's high time for a wrap-up of some favorites.
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