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		<title>Sushi Chef Robot Stirs a Crowd at the International Food Machinery and Technology Expo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A slew of robots performed delicate acts of edible showmanship this week at the International Food Machinery and Technology Expo in Tokyo, Japan. Creations perhaps destined someday to bring to life a Jetsons-style future of ubiquitous robotics demonstrated their ability to handle&#160;food.
Among the crowd pleasers stood a rather beefy, industrial looking robotic arm with a [...]


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/new-robots/sushi-chef-robot-stirs-a-crowd-at-the-international-food-machinery-and-technology-expo/</link>
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		<title>59-foot Tall Japanese Gundam Robot Looks Menacing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crazy pictures from Japan show a nearly 60ft tall life-size "Gundam" robot. Word so far is that the rocket packs are NOT operable. What a relief.


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/new-robots/59-foot-tall-japanese-gundam-robot-looks-menacing/</link>
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		<title>Medical Robot Helps Teach Aspiring Dentists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A robot named Simroid allows dental students to interact with a realistic, robotic patient. Simroid can sense pain, listen to the student, and even talk back to the student, making it a very realistic robot.


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/medical-robot-helps-teach-aspiring-dentists/</link>
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		<title>Ember Military &#8216;LANdroid&#8217; Robot Video Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA['Ember', is their book-sized autonomous robot made for the LANdroid program.Ember's ad-hoc network maintains communication between soldiers on the battlefield.


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/military-robots/ember-military-landroid-robot-video-update/</link>
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		<title>KOBIAN: Emotional Humanoid Robot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a humanoid robot that does emotions well. KOBIAN doesn&#8217;t just do facial expressions like most other humanoid robots. This bot uses its whole body to convey emotion, much like how we humans display&#160;body-language. 
We&#8217;re one step closer to having the friendly, humanoid robotic housekeeper we were all supposed to have by now. KOBIAN, make [...]


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/kobian-emotional-humanoid-robot/</link>
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		<title>Are Electronics-Free Robots the Future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main advantage of the chemical robots is that they do not need an electrical source of power. The robots gain energy through chemical reactions with their environment.


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-research/are-electronics-free-robots-the-future/</link>
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		<title>iRobot&#8217;s Tiny &#8216;Ember&#8217; Bot Creates an Ad-Hoc Network for Soldiers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Ember's duties is to keep soldiers in communication. In urban environments, buildings and angle of incidents between wireless devices can greatly affect signal propegation. LANdroids are tasked with autonomously seeking a position that keeps the network alive, while still maintaining other missions objectives


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/military-robots/irobots-tiny-ember-bot-creates-an-ad-hoc-network-for-soldiers/</link>
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		<title>Can Robots Make Art? These Robots Can Paint!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Francis, of paintwithrobots.com, has several robots assisting him with his art. It's just more proof of the limitless applications that we humans can use robots and computers on. There are tons of possibilities on what to program the robot to paint. They could be especially useful in doing large paintings in great detail, or painting small repetitive or tiresome figures. 


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/fun/can-robots-make-art-shall-we-call-them-artbots/</link>
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		<title>Robot Follows You, Can Understand Gestures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This robot from Brown University can read human&#160;gestures. 
While most of us may only think about futuristic robots interacting with us through speech, researchers at Brown have created a robot which responds to human gestures. These non-verbal commands include arm signals which indicate &#8220;follow,&#8221; &#8220;halt,&#8221; &#8220;wait&#8221; and &#8220;door&#160;breach.&#8221; 
The robot also understands verbal commands, and [...]


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-images/robot-follows-you-can-understand-gestures/</link>
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		<title>Robotic Gardening at MIT &#8211; New Robots take care of Tomato Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robots are tending to tomato plants at MIT&#8217;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Nikolaus Correll, an MIT postdoc, has made a robot fitted with a watering pump and programmed to tend to tomato plants grown in the MIT&#8217;s&#160;CSAIL.
 
In the video above, the robots appear to be built on a modified Roomba with [...]


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/robotic-gardening-at-mit-new-robots-take-care-of-tomato-plants/</link>
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