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	Robots Are Learning How to be More Careful With Dangerous and Fragile Objects [VIDEO]
	Cornell researchers are working on developing an algorithm through physical feedback to teach robots to be more careful with certain objects. For example knives! Simply because we don't want to die in the hands of a robot holding one! The robot can...
	Robots Can Now Walk Just Like Us [Video]
	The biggest challenge for humanoid robots now is walking. Engineers have had a hard time making one that can take strides and roll each foot heel-to-toe. Up until now. Texas's A&M's Amber robotics lab just unveiled their latest version of a wal...
	MIT's Next Robots Will Have Super Good Eyesight
	MIT is working on improving the way robots see. Grad student Jared Glover and his team have refined existing algorithms to give robots very good eyesight. The algorithm is based on a statistical construct known as the Bingham distribution, and it al...
	Can A Robot Bartender Give You Better Bar Service?
	Do you sometimes find it difficult to get a drink at the bar? Here's the bad news. You are either: 1) Unattractive enough and 2) not flashing heaps of cash to attract attention or 3) stuck behind people who are just standing at the bar but not order...
	From MIT: Robots Learn To Realize Their Errors, And Then Ask For Help (Video)
	The researchers at MIT have now taught robots how to ask for human help. Soon they'll be asking other robots for help. And soon we'll be fighting the robots.But before that, the team at MIT taught a pack of KUKA's youBots to realize when they've fa...
	Volkswagen Is Using Collaborative Robots To Relieve Workers From Stressful Jobs. Will They Be Stealing Our Jobs Too Soon?
	The workplace today is very different from "back in the day". From letting automation do all the work, it looks like the massive industrial robots are now being paired together with humans. Can we really work together with them? Are they no longer d...
	The Robots That Will Save You In The Future Will Have To First Pass This Tough Obstacle Course
	DARPA is hosting the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and hopes to start the development of tomorrow's mechanical responders. They will be the ones that respond to disasters and will be doing the clean up so you know, us humans don't have to do it. The cha...
	The Terminator 3 Effects Team Built Almost Actual Robot Assassins Of The Future (Video)
	The effects team from Terminator 3 created actual Terminators. Almost that is. Here are some behind the scenes video from the Stan Winston School, where the minds behind the machines in Terminator 3 explain their process. It's something worth watchi...