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- Robots to Swarm the Seas
- Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology.
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- Miniature Robots to Swarm the Oceans
- Robots will be employed to help scientists probe changes in the ocean.
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- Whiskered Robots
- Robots with whiskers like a rat can detect and then project 3D virtual images of objects on to a computer screen. Scientists say robotic rovers, like the ones on Mars, m...
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High School Student Develops Chemical-Detecting Robot
Autonomous robot finds and responds to chemical spills, potentially saving human lives.
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Robot Hops to Military Duty
Precision Urban Hopper robots, designed for urban warfare, can jump onto or over obstacles more than 25 feet.
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Wow! This Robot Can Hop

The Precision Urban Hopper robot, designed for urban combat situations, can hop 25 feet to clear fences and other object.
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Can Robots Make Ethical Decisions?
Morality is no longer the exclusive realm of human philosophers. Now what?
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Robot to Get Human Brain Cells
It's all cooked up in a broth of nutrients zapped by electricity.
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Engineering Students Build Underwater 'Bot
College students build underwater robots designed to save mock submarines.
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Robotic Fish Could Patrol Waterways
Robotic fish that swim like the real thing created to patrol waterways.
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New Moon Rovers Rehearse on Earth

Red Rover's laser maps in 3D, while Black Rover's radar peers 6 feet under. Offspring of these wheeled test vehicles will ply the lunar surface, Martian terrain, crusts of planetary moons and perhaps the outer rinds ofdwarf planets.
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Nano Researcher Is Also Avid Student Mentor
Researcher works to develop new nanomaterials and mentors high school student to science fair win.
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Robotic Systems Help People with Disabilities
Robotic mobility and manipulation devices are being crated to assist people with disabilities
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Robot Model Hits the Runway
The HRP-4C female robot hits the runway at the Osaka fashion show.
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Robots Could Replace Teachers
More and more of us will learn from robots in the future, but human teachers will still be the norm, according to a "new science of learning."
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Military Robot Could Eat Dead Bodies
'Bot designed to fuel itself by consuming organic material, from grass to furniture or even dead bodies.
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Hey, Einstein! Is That You?

A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning.
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Powerful Ideas: Military Develops 'Cybug' Spies
Scientists can already control the flight of real moths using implanted devices.
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Robotic Bat: A Sneaky Spy
A palm-sized "robo-bat" with shape memory alloy is designed for surveillance.
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Freaky Robot Is a Real Einstein
An Albert Einstein robot look-alike learned to make facial expressions.
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Powerful Ideas: Alcohol Could Run Artificial Muscles
Artificial muscles driving the robots or prosthetic limbs of the future might be powered by the kind of alcohol that can make people blind.
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Boat-'Bots for Brainiacs: LEGO Subs Launch Young Engineers

Robots designed, built and run by Middle School and High School students compete underwater. Event hosted by the Stevens Institute of Technology, well known for its ocean-engineering programs.
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Young Engineers Take LEGO 'Bots For a Swim
Middle and high school students pit their remote-controlled underwater LEGO vehicles against one another at the Build IT Challenge.
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Superbot: The Real Transformer
Researchers hope that modular robots might one day decide when and where to transform.
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