[Tyler]

Robot News Roundup
     



Here's a few interesting articles for your holiday-time perusal:

 For $225k, you can swing by a department store in Japan
and get a humanoid
robot that looks like you!

 Robot advances from around the world are featured in the

EU Infrastructure article.

 Wired's Gadget Lab shows off the hard-drive sculptures by Miguel Rivera,
including a
biped
robot which uses 14 defunct laptop drives.

 Unmanned flying vehicles are looking for a boost from research into
hummingbird flight
at University at Buffalo.

 Advances in brain-machine
interfacing is outlined in a recent article at GIGIOM.

 A posting over on DIGG linked to this picture of

R2 having lunch.


 And we finish off with this

Christmas video by rhyspross and the robot powers that be.

 Cheers to all!
   

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