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Beer-Opening Robot

Friday, April 26, 2002

Just when you thought beer-drinking couldn’t get any better, along comes the Autonomous Beer-Opening Robot, or ABOR.
It was built by Jean-Phillipe Clerc, a mechanical engineering master’s student at the University of Florida, as part of the school’s Intelligent Machine Design Laboratory class.

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A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away …

Friday, February 22, 2002

The 106-bed facility … features robot bears whose sole purpose is to watch over the elderly residents.

The fur-covered robotic assistant, simply known as Teddy, hides a microcomputer and a local network connection.
It is the latest in a series of companion robots … Previous efforts included cats and a surprisingly appealing wombat.

link via me-fi

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RoboScience

Friday, April 6, 2001

AWESOME!RoboScience has created the RS-01 RoboDog - the world’s most powerful, most advanced and largest commercial legged robot. The RoboDog takes leading-edge technology out of the laboratories of the world’s major organisations and puts it in people’s living rooms.

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Chew Chew

Thursday, July 20, 2000

Chew Chew was invented by Stuart Wilkinson at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

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In Which I Want to Be a Robot

Thursday, June 8, 2000

I will be the first in line to have my brain in a robot body! This article is amazing, and not just because the publication date is June 10, 2000! It’s like living, literally, in the future!

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Ryan

Wednesday, April 12, 2000

Ryan blogged this and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. This thing has a dialect that sounds more like bad Chinese than ‘robot-speak’. Oh well … he’s new.

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