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These 'cathartic' stress robots can take a beating
Curated from www.engadget.com - May 8th, 2019 by RobotShop

Unleash your negative emotions on technology.

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More than 7,000 Robots Will Work in Construction by 2025, Report Says
Curated from www.roboticsbusinessreview.com - May 8th, 2019 by RobotShop

Worldwide market for construction robotics to reach $226M over six years.

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This Robot Hummingbird Is Almost as Agile as the Real Thing - IEEE Spectrum
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - May 8th, 2019 by RobotShop

Purdue roboticists have built a bio-inspired micro air vehicle that flies much like a real hummingbird

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Tally trials begin in Giant Eagle stores, as Simbe aims inventory robot at global grocers
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

The autonomous mobile robot can operate safely around people during regular store hours, enabling employees to focus on customer service and restocking items,

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Future Underwater Robot Could Charge Its Batteries By Eating Fish Poop
Curated from www.digitaltrends.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

The U.S. Navy wants to find a way to create underwater robots that can stay submerged for longer. Their idea? Giving it special batteries that can be recharged by eating fish poop. Here's how it could work, and what a team of researchers have demonstrated so far with the project.

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Watch Robots Flip Water Bottles With Style
Curated from blog.adafruit.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

Super satisfying video from ROBOCON Official [robot contest]. These robots are made by Japanese technical college “KOSEN” (高専) students (15~20 years old) as the theme of the Robot Conte…

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Robot Investments Weekly: Boston-area Robotics Firms Score Funding
Curated from www.roboticsbusinessreview.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

Slow week features transactions in robotics and military unmanned systems spending.

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Floating Cell Towers Are the Next Step for 5G - IEEE Spectrum
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

Terrestrial 5G networks will support high-altitude balloons and drones, and could someday merge with them

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Lego introduces a new STEM Star Wars kit
Curated from techcrunch.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

No one does brand synergy quite like Lego. The company’s been one of the biggest Star Wars licensers over the years, and for the first time, it’s applying one of the most valuable pieces of IP to its own line of STEM kits, Lego Boost. For this year’s Star Wars Day, the Danish company is […]

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Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over
Curated from futurism.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

The robot is meant to prevent accidents that occur when the police pull over drivers.

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Watch This Hulking Robot Play “The Floor Is Lava”
Curated from futurism.com - May 7th, 2019 by RobotShop

In IHMC Robotics' new video, its humanoid robot Atlas autonomously traverses suspended wooden planks and wobbly cinder blocks.

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Robotics investments recap: April 2019
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

The Robot Report rounds up relevant transactions from April 2019 in autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, healthcare, agriculture, and more.

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New Part Day: Lynxmotion Smart Servos
Curated from hackaday.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

Anyone who shops for robotics kits would have come across a few designed by Lynxmotion. They've been helping people build robots since 1995, from robot arm kits to hexapod chassis and everything i

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Robot Planter Will Walk In and Out of Sunlight
Curated from people.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

The HEXA Plant is a six-legged machine designed to carry a potted plant on its back and move in and out of the sunshine to give your plant optimal light.

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Brain-Machine Interfaces Could Give Us All Superpowers
Curated from www.wired.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

The new documentary 'I Am Human' chronicles how neurotechnology could restore sight, retrain the body, and treat diseases—then make us all more than human.

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Running Dinosaur Robot Reveals a Possible Way Dinos May Have Evolved Flight
Curated from gizmodo.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

Using robotic and animal models, researchers have shown that some dinosaurs were already flapping their rudimentary wings as a side effect of running, prior to evolving the ability to fly. The finding offers a unique perspective on the origins of flight, but experts say more evidence is needed.

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Inspection robots are climbing the walls to monitor safety conditions in hazardous locations
Curated from techcrunch.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

Down in Christchurch, New Zealand a team of roboticists at Invert Robotics has commercialized an inspection robot that uses tiny suction cups on a series of treads and a specialty chemical to create a technology that has robots literally climbing the walls. Meanwhile, a world away in Pittsburgh, Gec...

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Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist
Curated from futurism.com - May 3rd, 2019 by RobotShop

A new AI algorithm can create photorealistic images of people's bodies from scratch. It could automate models out of a job, but also be misused to mislead.

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Is There a Future for Laundry-Folding Robots? - IEEE Spectrum
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - April 30th, 2019 by RobotShop

The company behind the Laundroid robot folds itself, but that's not the end for laundry folding robots (yet)

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New 3D Printed Continuum Soft Robot Can Lift 3 Pounds
Curated from 3dprint.com - April 30th, 2019 by RobotShop

Usually when we think of robots in everyday life, it's something anthropomorphic, maybe a cross between C-3PO and Rosie the robot maid from The Jetsons. But robots don't always represent the human form, and some kinds are never depicted in pop culture.

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RobotShop Releases All New Lynxmotion Smart Servo Motors
Curated from www.prweb.com - April 30th, 2019 by RobotShop

MIRABEL, Quebec (PRWEB) April 30, 2019 -- RobotShop.com, the world leading source for all things robotic, continues its penetration of the robotics market by launching a new generation of Lynxmotion smart servo motors.

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Robot toy company Anki is going out of business
Curated from www.theverge.com - April 30th, 2019 by RobotShop

Anki, the San Francisco-based robotics company that specialized in making smartphone-controlled toys, is shutting down this week

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Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers
Curated from futurism.com - April 29th, 2019 by RobotShop

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.

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Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve
Curated from futurism.com - April 29th, 2019 by RobotShop

"The right way to think about this is through the analogy of a fighter pilot and a fighter plane. The fighter plane takes on the routine tasks like flying the plane, so the pilot can focus on the higher-level tasks of the mission."

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