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Is that a robot on your head? Robotic surgeon does hair transplants 9/30/2011 - Robotics is used in surgical procedures, now even for cosmetic dermatology. Concerned about balding? Hair transplant procedures have been revolutionized to take less time, less medical staff, less cost, and without stitching or sutures. Now all you need to do is trust a robot for your hair transplant...

Armed, Autonomous Robots "A Threat to Humanity" 8/16/2008 - An artificial intelligence professor has warned that the trend toward creating autonomous killer robots for battlefield use poses "a threat to humanity." Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield said that military leaders in several countries "are quite clear that they want autonomous robots as...

Roomba 530 robotic vacuum review by consumer advocate Mike Adams 9/25/2007 - The new Roomba 500 series robotic vacuums are, its manufacturer says, the best robotic vacuums ever made. We decided to buy a Roomba 530 and put it to the test, and today we bring you the results in an exclusive NaturalNews Photo Tour available at http://www.NaturalNews.com/phototour_roomba_530_1.html Why...

Human pharmacists replaced by robot in UK hospital 3/30/2007 - The pharmacy at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, England, has installed a robot to fill patients' prescriptions for them. According to hospital officials, the robot -- which not only fills prescriptions but keeps records as well -- will save the hospital money and its employees time. Jump directly...

Roomba maker launches programmable robot for hobbyists, students 1/11/2007 - The robot-maker iRobot, perhaps best known for its Roomba autonomous vacuum, is giving students and hobbyists the chance to order around their own robots with the programmable "Create." The Create is based on the aforementioned Roomba -- and its floor-mopping cousin Scooba -- and thus comes equipped...

Robots predicted to have rights 50 years from now 12/26/2006 - A recent report commissioned by the British government states that one day we may be giving the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans to sentient machines. The report claims to have looked extensively at current trends into to gauge the situation 50 years from now. One of 270 forward-looking...

Roomba maker iRobot also developing military robots for Pentagon 12/14/2006 - While civilian consumers can get a taste of the Jetsons' lifestyle with iRobot's Roomba vacuuming, floor washing and floor sweeping robots, the military is also taking advantage of the company's technology, but not to clean the barracks. The iRobot line of military robots includes scout robots that...

"Pleo" robotic dinosaur to show emotions, reactions to human stimulus 12/12/2006 - Advances in robotics have reached the point where intelligent toys -- known as companion robots -- are hitting the store shelves with high price tags. Furby maker Ugobe has developed a robotic dinosaur to appeal to that market segment, albeit with a cheaper and more emotional offering. "Pleo" is...

Samsung unveils machine-gun-wielding sentry robot that can track, kill humans 12/6/2006 - As a CNET photo caption pointed out, the machine-gun-toting sentry robot recently unveiled by Samsung's Techwin division is the antithesis of Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics. The Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot is a stationary unit armed with a 5.5-millimeter K3 machine gun and a second...

Researchers are teaching robots to interact intelligently with humans 12/4/2006 - Robots have been a part of research labs and automated factories for quite some time, but now some of them are playing hide-and-seek with scientist Alan Schultz. Teaching this robot named George to find a place to hide and then hunt for a human playmate is a new level of human interaction rarely...

Space elevator technology race launched: Beam Power Challenge to award $150,000 10/19/2006 - Space elevators are becoming a reality, and will be advanced even further once some new prototypes get off the ground at the Wirefly X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The competition is this weekend. One of the results that may spawn out of the competition is that one day, a robot will be able...

The implications of humanoid robots as laborsaving devices are more ominous than most people realize 8/22/2006 - In the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence will advance to the point where robots can perform useful functions in our everyday lives. But it's not just artificial intelligence that needs to advance in order to enable useful humanoid robots; we also need major advancements in portable power,...

U.S. Army tests battlefield robot armed with pump action shotgun; bring on the Terminators! 8/19/2004 - The same company that makes those cute little household vacuuming robots now has a military robot that is equipped with a pump action shotgun capable of firing shotgun rounds and presumably killing enemy combatants (or anyone who happens to be standing in front of the 'bot). The robot is called the...

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