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443 In Memoriam Bart 442 In Memoriam Bart 441 January19 440 test3 438 Ray Kurzweil, will we recognize the future? 437 Martin Tall's NeoVisus, gaze driven interaction 436 Matt Denton's Hexapod CNC router robot 435 Robotic Lawn Mower Competition 2008 434 Frits Lyneborg's Wall Racers


441 January19 440 test3 436 Matt Denton's Hexapod CNC router robot 435 Robotic Lawn Mower Competition 2008 434 Frits Lyneborg's Wall Racers 433 AUTOMATICA 2008 431 Iranian Zeus Robotic Team presentation 430 Rexona casts robots for commercial 429 NURC 2008, impressions 428 Robot Combat in slow motion 427 NURC 2008, Underwater Robotics Challenge 426 CM's magnetically actuated micro-robots 425 Beyond Human - parts 4-6 424 David Schmale's sampling UAV 423 Aldebaran Robotics' Nao, RoboCup platform 422 CNRS-LAAS' HRP-2 robot moves objects 421 iCub plays drums 420 WowWee's Wrex the Dawg, robot dog 419 UW's Fin Actuated AUVs' schooling behaviour 418 DFKI's µAUVs, micro autonomous underwater vehicles 417 Bruce Donald's dancing microbots 416 Alexander Gurko's Bettelbot 415 HEI Group's Blicopter, an unmanned airship 414 QDesign's marble milling Kuka robot 413 SCU's Project Autonav 410 Giant robot eats cars 407 Autonomous muffin-making machine 403 IGVC 2008 Viper Robot Vehicle Demo 402 ICRA & ICRA Robot Challenge 2008 401 British MOD's Grand Challenge 399 Garry Kasparov and the XXX UAV 398 ABB's Motion Control - The Wine Glass Test 397 DFKI's Robotics Lab - part 2 396 World Robotic Sailing Championship 2008 395 AI Robotics' Perfect-Woman Lisa 394 Nasa's Phoenix & Collaborative Robots 393 France Cadet's Dog[LAB] 392 Rozzo Bianca's Musicanical Robot Freak Show 387 Stäubli's robotic CO2 laser cutting system 386 Delft Biorobotics Lab's Flame, biped robot 384 7-gram jumping locust robot 383 CSIRO at CeBIT Australia 2008 382 DFKI's Robotics Lab - part 1 378 Crabfu's Swashbots 377 Bradley N. Litwin's Rotapult 376 UAVs pose myriad problems to U.S. airspace 375 EODMU EIGHT's Unmanned Undersea Vehicle 374 Oxford Mobile Robotics Group's Homer & Marge 373 Wall-E robot spotted in L.A. 372 Pleo at Sea World 371 ASIMO conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra 370 Water strider robot 369 MLB Company's V-Bat 368 Paul Granjon's sexed robots 364 Berkeley Bionics' ExoHiker exoskeleton 363 Pleo versus ComBot 362 Ancient robots and automata 361 Moomooleo's Albert, DIY humanoid 360 Lunar Rover Initiative's Scarab 359 SynPet's Newton, household robot from the 80s 358 Dynamic Walking Conference 2008 357 Raffle's and Parkes' Topobo 356 JustRobots' robot video compilations 354 Cyberstein's Titan 353 RoboVox 351 Anybots' Monty gets a Roomba 349 Schiebel's Camcopter S-100 348 EPFL's Chief Cook Robot 346 Toyota's Robot Quartet 345 Smithsonian's military UAV exhibition 344 Alan D. Joseph's Robot vs Human 343 Mongoose-robot duo & RoboCup German Open 340 I-Shovel, autonomous robotic snow shovel 339 MMIST's Snowgoose & Sherpa 338 Carnegie Mellon's Mobot Races 2008 337 iRobot's 3D Flash LIDAR camera 336 Festo's AquaJelly & AirJelly, robotic jellyfish 333 Fukuoka's Blaser Battle - The First Stage 332 Robot American Football - part 2 331 Tsinghua's Stepper-Senior leg prototype 330 Mobile Robots & Autonomous Systems 2008 329 TechTV's Big Thinkers: Rodney Brooks, roboticist 327 NASA's Robonaut 326 Cyberdyne's HAL exoskeleton mass production 323 MIT Towing Tank's Finnegan, the RoboTurtle 320 Robot Evolution - part 1 319 Chariot Robotics' Envirobot cleans ships 318 DARPA's Learning Applied to Ground Robots 314 Healthcare Robotics El-e, laser directed robot 313 Robots taking over 3.5M jobs in Japan by 2025 312 5G Marine Systems' Interceptor USV 311 Rieter's water jet cutter robot 310 Comau's SmartLaser, remote laser welding robot 309 Northrop Grumman's X-47B UCAS 305 Segway's Robotics Mobility Platform 304 Pal Technology's REEM-B's second video 303 WowWee's Flytech Bladestar UAV toy 302 Skiing Robots - part 1 301 ESA's Eurobot 300 University of Utah's walking line following robot 297 Anybots' Monty & Dexter 295 Roboticore's Visibot 294 USC's Superbot, modular robot systems 293 AIST's giant dinosaur robots 291 Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon 290 Dambach's Aisle Changing Stacker Crane 289 UNSW's CMR's MAVSTAR micro aerial vehicle 288 The rise of emotional robots 287 MIT's MDS Mobile/Dexterous/Social robot 286 ARICC's Robo-Erectus does tai chi 285 Live robot-assisted surgery webcast on April 24 283 CRS Robot with colour vision 280 VolcanBUL, a robotic bus 279 AUVSI's IVTT Seminar videos 277 Designing humanoids 275 MobileRobots' Seekur, all-weather robot 273 Robo-One 13th edition 272 Foster-Miller's Talon robots 271 Robot musicians - part 1 270 Da Vinci Surgical System gets eye-tracker 268 UoH's Adaptive Systems Research Group 265 UoA's Phobot, a phobic robot 264 Wall and window climbing robots - part 1 263 Boston Dynamics' BigDog robot mule gets update 262 Fraunhofer's Robokeeper 261 CWRU's Morphing Micro Air and Land Vehicle 260 Robotised farming - part 1 258 Robots playing a board game 257 Chemical brain controls nanobots 256 Rafael's Protector, unmanned surface vehicle 255 Airsoft Uzi mounted on Quadrotor UAV 254 Robowatch' Chrysor 253 Robot Compilation - part 3 251 Carnegie Mellon's Modular Snake Robots 250 DEXMART's Coffee-making robot 249 EU's ITALK project uses iCub, the robot toddler 245 RoboSwift, a morphing-wing micro aerial vehicle 244 Robot American Football - part 1 243 Fork Lift AGV's and Autonomous Trailer Loading 242 Kuka's Robocoasters 241 How it's made: Robot Arm 240 DelFly, camera-equipped insect bots 237 Netflix' robotised distribution 235 Dokkoisho Robot 234 IRIS' Microbots 230 ReadyBot's Kitchen Cleaning Robot Challenge 229 VeraTech Aero's Phantom Sentinel UAV 228 Automated killer robots a threat to humanity? 227 RoboCup@Home 2008 226 Barrett Technology's robotic WAM Arm 225 Frederic Kaplan & Martino d'Esposito's Wizkid 224 Crusher's February 2008 Field Tests at Fort Bliss 220 Pal Technology's REEM-B's first video 219 Toki's BioMetal Fiber for artificial muscles 217 FIRST Robotics Competition's FIRST Overdrive 216 UAV's - part 1 215 Robot Compilation - part 2 213 Robot Soccer - part 1 212 Toru Yamaguchi's Onimaru3 211 Orellana & Burns' Sleep Waking robot 210 InTouch Health's RP-7 remote presence robot 208 Tsuyoshi Horo's Human Volume Reconstruction 207 Robocross' Drum Machine 206 Rotec Engineering's Tankpitstop fuel robot 204 National Geographic's PotD: Swarm-Bots 203 Swarmbots - part 2 202 John Risch' Autonomous Follower Transport Robot 201 Robot Zeppelin 199 Wiimba, a Roomba and Wiimote hack 198 UoT's EMC, a modified 914 PC-BOT 197 Swarmbots - part 1 196 Robert Musters' Blue Falcon robotbird 195 U.S. Navy's Armed-Robots Labs 191 LEURRE's cockroaches controlled by robots 190 Murata's Murata Boy 189 U.S. Army Future Combat Systems 188 ATR's crowd-monitoring service robot Robovie 187 Robot compilation 186 Motoman's parcel sorting system DIA10 185 Industrial Robots - part 3 184 Laval's robot conductor 183 Kiva Systems' Mobile Fulfillment System 182 3sat's nano on robotics 180 EPFL's Talking Robots Podcast 179 CNU's tiny robot uses rat's heart muscle 177 CM's Vision-guided Footstep Planning for ASIMO 176 Denso's robots 174 Robots in the wild 173 Fanuc's robotised factories 171 nouvo.ch on the development of robot flies 170 Kuka's automotive line spot welding 168 AUVSI, association for unmanned vehicles 167 Dutch Horizonscan 2007 165 Robots in Search' skiing robot 164 Duke University's monkey controlled robot 163 Robot critters 162 Eidolon TLP, an A.I. YouTube publisher 155 Japanese exoskeletons 151 Adrian Bowyer's RepRap 149 TU's spherical ultrasonic motor 146 Alan Rath's Ambulatory Sculptures and Robots 143 Korea Institute of Industrial Technology's SeRoPi 139 Intelligent Systems Research Institute's M-Tran 135 Matt Denton's i.C. Hexapod 132 Hitachi's EMIEW2 127 Shadow Robot Company's muscles on air 125 Project Aiko's assertive fembot 124 Pal Technology's REEM-B 123 Honda's Asimo's collaborate 120 How to bully a Sarcos robot 119 Kawada's HRP working robots 117 VUB's best of 2007 robots compilation 115 Industrial Robots - part 2 113 Industrial Robots - part 1 107 Waseda Unversity's Twendy-One household robot 104 Sarcos Exoskeleton 100 MIT's and Georgia Tech's aerobatic autopilots 95 Massey University's Virtual Eve 93 NASA's All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer 85 Ugobe's Pleo 83 University of Tokyo's Mowgli 61 JSTA's CB2 50 AAAI's Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 48 HeadThere's Giraffe 47 EPFL's Salamandra Robotica 44 Marshall Brain's Manna 42 Interbot's Quasi 40 Top 5 most human looking robots 36 INCS' Zero 35 IBM's Die Stanze 21 MIT's Leonardo 18 Akazawa's Plen 17 Robowatch's security robots 12 Autonomous Solutions' robots 11 Fraunhofer's Kurt 10 Kawato's Dynamic Brain 7 Telbotics's Pebbles 4 Honda's Asimo 3 Sony's Qrio » top


409 Beyond Human - parts 1-3 405 Dean Kamen's cyborg arm gets smarter 400 Motorlab's monkey controlled robot arm 322 OU's human brain surface electrodes 321 ICCMR's Brain-Computer Music Interfacing 307 BBC's Horizon's Human v2.0 298 Japanese assisting goggles 248 Insect cyborgs 222 Botanicalls Twitter DIY 209 Kevin Warwick at Lift08 conference 200 Gyroscope controlled remote UAV camera 181 NeuroSky's brain-computer interface ThinkGear 172 UoW's contact lenses with circuits 160 Philips' clothing and body adornment 140 UW's Morpheus, a brain controlled humanoid 101 Keio University's brainwave controlled computers 73 VSD's omni-directional treadmill 70 Lumus' next generation personal displays 58 Emotiv's Epoc mind-reading headset 57 Monkey controls a robot arm with his thoughts 56 SUNY's Remote control rat 52 DOE's Argus II retinal implant 49 Dean Kamen's cyborg arm 43 Shandong UST's remote controlled cyborg pigeon 34 Relaxview's Relaxview 3D 20 Bionic eye » top


437 Martin Tall's NeoVisus, gaze driven interaction 432 IBM's Roadrunner smashes the petaflop barrier 412 NextGen PC Design Competition 2008 388 LiberoVision's DiscoverEye, 3D sport replay 380 Applied Science International's Extreme Loading 379 PlaceToPee, interactive toilet 365 James Devlin's Poker Bot 355 ISI's & conVISUAL's Mobile Scent Applications 334 Particleyon's Singularity video & links 328 DRL's Cow Herding with Virtual Fences 325 Procedural Pompeii 324 MIT's Quickies, intelligent sticky notes 316 IBM's Racetrack, new type of computer memory 299 Microsoft concepts 282 Vernor Vinge on Singularity & Spimes 269 MIT's energy-efficient microchip 267 Science, Technology & Us with Dr. Kenneth Ford 266 Inventions that changed the world: The Computer 259 RPI's Avatar with reasoning abilities of a child 239 Life, a virtual simulation? 238 Emil Ernerfeldt's Phun, a 2D physics sandbox 175 TU/e's Visual Interaction Platform 166 Techland's Warhound A.I. 157 Bug Labs' BUG modular gadgets 152 BiTMICRO's 1.6 TB 3.5 inch SSD 145 BiTMICRO's 832 GB SSD 144 TROS Radio Online on Artificial Intelligence 137 Cognitive Systems - The Fifth Wave 133 Johnny Chung Lee's Wii head tracking for 3D VR 129 British Library's Turning the Pages 2.0 110 Wearable technology at work in the European Union 86 Spintronics 82 Igor Ginzburg's Chefy 80 McDonalds' order-by-mobile 74 Content aware image resizing 71 AIST's 3D projector 66 IBM's Blue Gene passes petaflops milestone 65 Seal Shield's dishwasher safe keyboards 62 Microsoft's Seadragon and Photosynth demo 41 UOregon's Self-propelled droplets 39 Philips' Readus 33 Eye-Fi's Eye-Film 32 Wavio's MP-1000J 9 Jade Integration's Jack PC 6 OLPC's $100 laptop » top


367 Cognitive Code's SILVIA 112 NEC's real-time translating mobile phone 91 Loebner Prize for artificial intelligent chatting 30 EU's TC-Star 29 SRI's IraqComm 28 Altavista's Babelfish » top


390 Scott Hobbs' ATTIGO, digital turntables 306 Beamz Music Performance System 232 iBand 192 Korg's Kaossilator 87 Replug 76 Yamaha's Tenori-on 54 The Amazing Rolo's Wii Loop Machine 19 ION' iTTUSB 5 ELP's LT6 » top


391 Urban Aeronautics Panda & X-Hawk Fancrafts 347 Toyota's E-com ride 308 Torc Technologies 2007 Grand Challenge videos 296 UAV's using the Coandă effect 276 We were on the moon in 1969 252 Belowground Cargo Transportation 236 Nanocomp's Large Carbon Nanotube Sheets 214 Rinspeed's sQuba drives, floats and dives 194 Duncan Fitzsimmons' foldable wheel Crossbreed 169 EU's i2010, Intelligent Car Initiative 153 Tata's Nano 147 Aptera Motors' Aptera 131 Advanced Transport Systems' ULTra PRT pods 116 Ben Smither's one-wheeled scooterboard 109 MIT's foldable light electric vehicle 98 MDI's Compressed Air Technology cars 97 Tesla Motors' Tesla Roadster all-electric vehicle 89 Darpa's Urban Challenge 2007 88 Nissan's Around View Monitor 78 Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America 64 Phoenix Motorcars' Electric Vehicles 55 Michelin's Tweel 46 Intelligent Energy's ENV motor bike 38 Mobility in the future? 31 Necel's Imapcar 22 Revopower's The Wheel 16 Dynacraft BSC's chainless Dekra D-Drive 1 Darpa's Grand challenge » top


406 New Amazonian tribe discovered. Send Asimo? 389 Daniel Burd's Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria 335 Blueroof Technologies' high tech senior housing 317 The In Vitro Meat Consortium 223 Jim Mulvale on Basic Income For All 150 Verbus Systems' modular accommodations 148 Small modular homes 136 Annie Leonard's The Story Of Stuff 118 Tom Chudleigh's Free Spirit Spheres 94 Specht Harpman's ZeroHouse 75 Mark Goulthorpe's Hyposurface 2 Holland Composites' Spacebox » top


411 Panasonic's Evolta batteries 385 Lebônê Solutions' soil power 381 Algae biofuels 366 Swift's Rooftop Wind Energy System 342 UoM researchers pinpoint microwaves 315 QUT's transparent solar cells 247 Konarka's inkjet printer prints solar cells 246 Craig Venter, synthetic life & 4th generation fuels 221 Wind turbine blown to pieces 161 Sanyo's Solar Ark 158 GM to make biofuel out of garbage 156 Panda Ethanol's energy from cow manure. 142 Stockholm Central Station's human heating system 141 Ooms Haverhorn's Road Energy Systems 138 Ross Lovegrove's Solar tree street lights 134 Harvesting ocean power 128 WINd propulsion TEChnology for Cargo vessels 122 Boeing C-130H gets an Advanced Tactical Laser 114 Reidar Finsrud's near-perpetuum mobile 105 Penn State University's microbial electrolysis cell 102 ZKEnergy's and Magturbine's maglev wind turbines 90 Total Mobility Project's solar car 84 Shawn Frayne's Windbelt 81 AVA Solar's photovoltaic modules 77 Swell Fuel's Stinger 72 BGU's efficient solar power collection 69 Burning salt water 63 Solix' Algae-Based Biodiesel 60 Solúcar's Solar tower 59 NRC's electricity generating dyes 51 Trickling water battery 37 Stirling engines 27 Steorn's Orbo 26 Nanosolar's next-generation solar cells 25 Ocean Power Delivery's Pelamis 24 Marine Current Turbines' Seagen 23 Carbon Nanotube Capacitators 15 Rabtherm 14 Matteran Energy 13 Wavegen's Limpet » top


341 robotic surgery: health and economic benefits 284 Regenerative medicine re-grows body parts 274 Microsoft MIX' Future Vision on Healthcare 233 UoA's HIV blocking gene 218 Hippo Rollers & Q-Drums 178 BU's scar-free healing 159 University of Minnesota's living heart made in lab 154 Cranberry juice against urinary tract infections 121 Microsoft's SenseCam against dementia 106 HP's and Crospon's skin patch drug delivery 103 Vivek Rangnekar's cancer resistant mouse 99 Edible, germ killing wrap 96 Stem cells from human skin 92 Tiny probe gives wide-angle view of your insides 79 Livesaver Systems' Livesaver bottle 68 Early environmental exposure may accelerate age-related neuro-degeneration 67 Autism symptoms reversed in MIT lab 53 Oxycyte artificial blood » top


443 In Memoriam Bart 442 In Memoriam Bart 438 Ray Kurzweil, will we recognize the future? 408 Technology Calendar - June 2008 404 Comedy: Sony's Robotron 5000 352 Theo Jansen - Strandbeest open house May 2008 350 Technology Calendar - May 2008 292 Darpa's iXo A.I. Control Grid 281 Technology Calendar - April 2008 278 BigDog parody 231 Technology Calendar - March 2008 205 Rocketboom's Π song 193 Technology Calendar - February 2008 130 Time itself could be running out in our universe 126 BBC's Visions of the Future 111 nouvo.ch on ecology and technology [in french] 108 6 most important experiments in the world 45 Top 5 [working] futuristic technologies 8 Top 10 strangest gadgets of the future » top