[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

The robot stories have been piling up, so it will probably take a couple
of robot roundups this week to get caught up! In the last roundup, we
mentioned the robot page
embedded in the new Firefox 3 browser. Rog-a-Matic noticed that
Firefox fans in San Francisco built a giant robot
in Dolores Park to celebrate the launch of the browser. Several
readers sent links to Nuvations air hockey
robot. The Swirling Brain has swirled up a stories about orbiting
robots that could repair satellites, the coming android
apocalypse, the almost as deadly pet-vs-robot
wars, the new Kiva
robots that Zappos.com is using in their warehouse, a speech implant
that turns
thoughts into words, defense
department interest in neural nets, and a robot
arm that surfs the web all day and diggs stories (or maybe it's
hoax). Roland Piquepaille has been busy as well, reporting on the use of facial recognition used
for remote control and the history of bilateral
teleoperation. And two last items that are not exactly robots but
still cool: first a
gyroscopically
stabilized cross between a unicycle, a motorcycle, and a segway and
second, photos
of university team solar vehicles being prepped for the North American Solar
Challenge rally. Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts
we should report? Send 'em our way please.
   

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