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Random Robot Roundup
     

Markus Waibel writes,
"A few weeks ago Robots celebrated its 1 year
anniversary". Robots.net wishes Markus and all the Robot podcast crew a
happy birthday and many more years of great podcasts! Beth Tucker of
GlobalPost writes, "Italian scientists are developing DustCart,
an on-demand robot trash collector. DustCart is part of a project
called DustBot". A slashdot
story brought good news of a Lithium-Air battery
breakthrough that promises 10x the energy density of current
lithium-ion batteries. Ronald C. Blue (remember the CORE processor?)
sent us video of
Little Blue, his "Analogy self programming robot" that "learns how
to control itself in 15 seconds". Rog-a-matic spotted an
interesting New
Scientist article on the function of chaos in the brain. He also
points out a photo
gallery of robotic creations by Paul Loughridge who turns the chaos
of junk into well ordered robot art. The Swirling
Brain has been busy too, swirling up stories on Vernor Vinge's
latest prediction that AI
will exceed human intelligence by 2020, an autonomously
reconfiguring space robot, and a plan to release a movie-version
of the classic robot story R.U.R. in 2011.
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