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A small yellow submarine is exploring Lake Superior to give scientists information about water temperatures and conductivity.
The 7-foot-long, unmanned vessel is expected to be in the lake for about two weeks. It moves slowly and surfaces every three hours to get any new signals from scientists.

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Military robot 'hops' over walls
Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m high.
Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot - which is being developed for the US military - uses its four wheels to get around.
But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated "leg" to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.

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Space robot 2.0: Smarter than the average rover
Something is moving. Two robots sitting motionless in the dust have spotted it. One, a six-wheeled rover, radios the other perched high on a rocky slope. Should they take a photo and beam it back to mission control? Time is short, they have a list of other tasks to complete, and the juice in their batteries is running low. The robots have seconds to decide. What should they do?

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Cornell's robotic submarine wins international competition
For the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team, months of meticulous testing, refining and retesting has paid off: With a flawless 11.5-minute run through a complex course of underwater tasks in the final round, the team's autonomous submarine beat the competition and earned first place in the 12th annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (UVSI) competition in San Diego Aug. 2.

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Action on a global scale must be taken to curb the development of killer military robots that think for themselves, a leading British expert warned yesterday.
Terminator-style machines that decide how, when and who to kill are just around the corner, according to Noel Sharkey, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield.

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An international debate is needed on the use of autonomous military robots, a leading academic has said.
Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield said that a push toward more robotic technology used in warfare would put civilian life at grave risk.
Technology capable of distinguishing friend from foe reliably was at least 50 years away, he added.

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Robot model hits runway at Osaka fashion show
Japanese scientists have made a robot in an elaborate wedding dress walk down the runway at an Osaka fashion show, a development seen as a major advance in humanoid technology.
Developed by Japans National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the "pretty woman" in an elaborate wedding dress took part in the fashion show earlier this week.

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In a pair of small laboratories in Prague, a swarm of tens of millions of robots is being prepared, to be set loose en masse.
It is only fitting that here, in the town where the word robot was coined by author Karel Capek, the next generation of robotics should be envisioned.
But these won't be typical robots with gears and motors; they will instead be made of carefully designed chemical shells-within-shells, with receptors on their surface.
Instead of software and processors to guide them, their instructions will be written into the chemistry of their constituent parts. They are chemical robots, or as the 1.6m euro project's title has it, chobots.

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An Eagle company that made a robot baby dinosaur toy has closed, dismissed its workers and filed for liquidation of its assets under federal bankruptcy law.
Ugobe Inc., the maker of Pleo, filed under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy code Friday in Boise.

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Experts predict that an ageing world population and continuing global military conflicts will be the two main drivers of robot design and function in the coming years.
Speaking at the Robo Business 2009 Conference and Expo in Boston, Tandy Trower, the general manager of Microsoft Robotics, noted that in the next 40 years, the number of pensioners - those aged 65 and over - is set to increase by two billion worldwide.

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