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Robotic insects have been spotted in the wild... who is using them?

for what?

unsolved mysteries?

Some comments after the jump! (image)

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As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a
couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it.

Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit from the trees. In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season.

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Robots and congress because of Bill G., Something sounds fishy ;-)

I'm eager to see the Robots linked to their producers 24/7, v-chip-like talk and other tapping/remote control techniques. Unlike the author, I'm not sure congress can even start to understand the concept of ethic and even less so after a sentence like this:

"Ensuring that our nation remains globally competitive as the robotics industry rapidly expands and begins to exert a profound effect on the way our citizens live their lives."

Lives will surely change... Now is the time to build EMPs, anyone has a portable one to suggest?

Quartet Project: Human/Robot Music/Dance

Mix robots, music, and lots of sensors together and you get something I wish I had been to!

Do you want to dance with a robot ? :)

Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free

Nicholas Carr and Benkler then entered into what has come to be widely known in Web circles as the "Carr-Benkler wager": a bet on whether, by 2011, such sites will be driven primarily by volunteers or by professionals.

I find it interesting that a robot could be deemed "mature audience only".
How can a piece of metal be mature? It's not porn...
Or do you mean it's closer to a human?
In that case should ugly/weird people be "mature only"? ;)





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