New Robots and Martian Wood

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Rocketboom Daily News for December 2, 2008. For story links and more info, visit http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_dec_02/

Robots with a mind of their own

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Scientists are now building a new kind of robot capable of self-assembly and doing tasks too difficult or too dangerous for human beings.

Kraftwerk - The Robots

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Classic 1977, Kraftwerk videoclip of The Robots (Kraftwerk, the pioneers of electronic music)

Dancing Sony Robots

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Awesome Sony robots in Japan! They move really smoothly and quickly for machines. I'm impressed.

Weird science: the top five odd robots

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To celebrate the arrival of Honda's bionic legs, here's the top five oddest robots, including the robo-football team and the robo-drummer.

RuBot II - The Rubik's cube solving robot.

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Read this before you comment! This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It's very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. There are cameras in the eyes of the head that scan the cube before the pneumatic arms solve it. It usually solves the Cube in about 35 seconds (not including the scan) no matter how much it is mixed up. The solving algorithm is taken care of by Herbert Kociemba's Cube Explorer software and usually solves the cube in a maximum of about 20 moves. In this video, the cube wasn't mixed up too hard so RuBot was able to find the optimum solution. Thanks to all of those who think it is too good to be true. That is a real compliment! If you still don't believe it, Look at the other RuBot videos - they have better scrambles. Or better still, call in on one of RuBot's live demonstrations. By the way, that's my daughter in the clip with RuBot.

Flight Of The Conchords - The Humans Are Dead

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The mighty folk comedy duo New Zealand's Flight Of The Conchords proform their song "Humans Are Dead" Enjoy

Robots inspired by animals

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Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/11/taking-inspiration-from-nature.html Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots. Footage courtesy of: University of Essex, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Carnegie Mellon University, ULB-EPFL, Tokyo Institute of Technology, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST).

Create Teeny Tiny Solar Insect Robots

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One of the great things about these little bots is that you can make them from scavenged materials. Use parts from broken electronics and bring them back to life as little robots!

AKIBA ROBOT FESTIVAL 2006: Actroid Female Robot

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The amazingly realistic female android, named Actroid DER 2, was demonstrated at the AKIBA Robot Festival here in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com.

Toyota shows off violin-playing humanoid robot

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Toyota shows off a violin playing robot and a two-wheeled human transporter -- the latest products of its robots program that seeks to develop a practical human assistance robot by the early part of the 2010s.

Paul Merton in China Mr Woo Robots

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Paul Merton Meets Mr Woo and his array of walking robots

the Trons - self playing robot band

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http://www.myspace.com/thtrons practicing in the lounge before their fringe gigs! More of the robots on myspace...

Modular Snake Robots

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Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot. These highly articulated devices can coordinate their internal degrees of freedom to perform a variety of locomotive gaits that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and legged robots. The true power of these devices is their versatility; they can crawl, climb, swim, and scale flights of stairs. Copyright 2008 Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University. All Rights Reserved. http://www.modsnake.com/

The Onion: Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?

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Panelists discuss whether controversial decisions by the Robot Congress and President Executron indicate robots have too much control over our lives. More coverage at: http://onion.com

AMV Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

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Mazinger, Gunbuster & Gundam in an Alan Parsons Project song "I Robot" AMV

Dinosaur Robot

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Dinosaur Robot

ABB FlexPicker Robots

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Read more at http://www.botjunkie.com/ and http://www.abb.com/

Robots in Disguise - Arguments

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Video clip of Robots in Disguise, a band I really like a lot.

GOOD: Military Robots Part 1

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www.good.is Technological developments have enabled the evolution of warfare from cavemen bludgeoning each other with blunt objects to career soldiers detonating explosives from miles away. What's next on the battlefields of the future? Military robots are rolling, flying, and swimming into conflict zones, aiding and protecting their human counterparts. GOOD takes a closer look at these robo-warriors in our new series, "Military Robots." Watch all the episodes at www.good.is

Robots In Disguise- Turn It Up

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The Song "Turn It Up" By Robots In Disguise Off Of The Album "Get RID!"

Robots in disguise - turn it up CLIP

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YEAAAHHH le clip de cette chanson énorme SO BRITISH

I Robots - Frau (Boys Noize Remix)

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Director: Daniel Eskils, www.eskils.com/junker Official video.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Part 1)

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The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Part 1)

Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid

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Artist Dave the Chimp's second video for electro pop superstars Robots In Disguise sees the girls settling in for an evening on the couch watching porn on VHS. A warning to Shoreditch wasters or just an excuse to hear the sound of metal on metal? The single is released Monday 15th October on President Records, UK tour starts 19th, London show at Islington Academy 25th! www.myspace.com/robotsindisguise www.visualrockstars.net