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RSS robot in newsArtificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News The next generation want to build the next robot or the next general purpose intelligence and along the way they'll push the envelope a bit more. Artificial intelligence technology (AI) is being used all around us but don't expect any philosophical... [10 Jul 2008]
Killer robots terror warning
News The expert at the University of Sheffield - who was formerly a judge on cult BBC TV show Robot Wars - warned the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) of the beginning of an international robot arms race. [28 Feb 2008]
Top 10 mobile & wireless stories of the year
News Google's big mobile move of the year was named after a robot that's been made to look human. The big mobile story for 2007 has to be Apple's entry into the market with the long awaited and much hyped iPhone - which launched in the US in June and... [13 Dec 2007]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Robot chatters are just one type of social-engineering attack that uses trickery rather than a software flaw to access victim's valuable information. A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its... [10 Dec 2007]
Recycling directive finally bites
News Frustration at tech industry foot-dragging over environmental responsibility led the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce to unveil a 20-foot tall robot, called the WEEE man, on London's South Bank in 2005. [02 Jul 2007]
Bomb Squad gets £65m robot fleet
News The army is spending £65m on a fleet of 80 bomb disposal robots. Known as Cutlass, the six-wheeled remote-controlled robots will replace the 'Wheelbarrow' robots which have been used since the 1970s, when they were first used by bomb disposal... [29 Dec 2006]
Stories of the month: December 2006
News You can read more here about how technology issues from chip and PIN to MiFID changed the world of financial services throughout the year, and check out silicon.com's giant photo stories of the year article which saw intrepid reporters roaming... [27 Dec 2006]
Robot stealth jet gets £124m boost
News The Ministry of Defence is spending £124m to develop stealth robot fighter jets, with a prototype expected in the air by the end of the decade. It has awarded a £124m contract to BAE Systems to develop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, with... [12 Dec 2006]
Darpa robot race gets prize fund boost
News Darpa has granted prize money of $3.5m for its milestone urban robotics race next November, a far cry from its previously planned trophies. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has approved prize money for the first three finalists of... [11 Dec 2006]
Robot spy planes get £16m government boost
News The government is spending £16m on the development of robot aircraft that could be used by the police for surveillance. The government said that development of unmanned craft could "revolutionise" police and fire service surveillance, or power and... [18 Jul 2006]
Robot doctors make hospital rounds
News It might look like a Dalek with a TV jammed on its head but the robot prowling the wards at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington aims to medicate, rather than exterminate. The robot - dubbed Sister Mary - is part of a "remote presence" trial being run... [09 Feb 2006]
Dell gets Googled
News Webmasters who want to keep some or all of their site private from the Googlebot can put a standard document called "robot.txt" at the root of the server that instructs the crawler not to download content. [02 Feb 2006]
Game over for Sony's robotic dog
News As part of its ongoing cost-cutting and reorganisation effort, Sony has cut its line of robotic Aibo dogs, along with another, more expensive humanoid robot called the Qrio, which was never sold as a product. [27 Jan 2006]
Is open source coming to a mobile near you?
News The kernel is maintained by Linux leader Linus Torvalds and his allies, who have preferred to work on mainstream enhancements rather than on features geared specifically to "embedded" computing devices such as mobile phones, robot controllers and... [17 Oct 2005]
Nasa sends robot to seek for life in the desert
News A three-year Nasa project to test a "search-for-life" robot will soon come to an end but not before one last trip to the Chilean desert. Zoe", a solar-powered rover that resembles a go-cart, is a prototype of an artificially intelligent astro... [11 Aug 2005]
