[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

While the rest of the world is busy noticing all the new cameras, games,
and home theater gadgets at CES
this year, JETRO wants us to remind
you about their JETRO
Robotics Zone at CES featuring Japanese consumer robots now
available in the US including the new I-Fairy
receptionist (PDF format), Paro
the therapeutic seal robot, and robot dinosaurs from
Kokoro.
The Swirling Brain ran across insplore.com, a website that provides
online robot simulations similar to the old Unix crobots from the 1980s.
He also sent links to an io9
article on the Mahru III robot, a story on hummingbot,
a two million dollar Japanese flying robot the size of a hummingbird,
and a Wired
article on the need for AI that can connect the dots to
predict terrorism. Lastly, Matt Musick writes, "I know you briefly
covered Owens a few years back and I wanted to pass  
along our
new video interview with him." He's referring to Carlos Owens from Alaska,
who built the giant,
flamethrower equipped, exoskeleton that we reported on in 2004.
   

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