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RSS robots5 Steps Every Business Can Take to Guard Against Botnets
White Paper These malicious programs turn ordinary computers into robots that can be remotely controlled by cybercriminals. Robot networks and zombie armies may sound like names from science fiction. Unfortunately, they identify... [13 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo The project to develop Aida is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab. In the future drivers will... [11 Nov 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Think tea-serving robots, motorised shoes and software products that solve a gripe endured by three people globally. Where to look for the next wave of corporate innovation? It might just come from renegade geeks, says... [14 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The device, which is designed to swim around the stomach to investigate any problems via remote control, was on show as part of an exhibition on medical robots at London Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo Another area the exhibition focuses on is robots designed to care for patients rather than operate on them. The device - developed between 2003 and 2005 with the support of the European Commission - is on show as part of... [15 Sep 2009]
HP LeftHand P4000 SANs Deliver Efficient New Storage-Management System for Factory Automation Leader Mitsubishi Electric Automation
White Paper Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.a U.S.subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan, supplies factory automation products and solutions - including programmable logic controllers, variable-frequency drives, operator... [02 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Today the span of conflict is vast, and ranges from hand-to-hand fighting at one end of the spectrum to killer robots at the other. It starts with artificial intelligence deployed in autonomous robots... [28 Aug 2009]
Photos: The robot fish that swim like the real thing
Photo The fish's creators - mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado - are hoping the manoeuvrable underwater robots will be used to monitor submerged structures including oil and gas pipelines,... [26 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo The Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge took place in July with seven university teams pitting their underwater robots against each other on a submarine obstacle course. Pictured on the right is the Bison ROV which... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: The firefighting robots taking to London's streets
Photo Four robots designed to tackle dangerous fires were shown off in London yesterday by defence technology company QinetiQ. Under a two-year deal - jointly funded by Network Rail, the Highways Agency and Transport for... [29 Jul 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo The competition saw seven teams put their robots through a range of underwater tasks over the course of two days, with their performance scored by a panel of judges. Here, Nessie successfully docks in the underwater... [20 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet I'm pretty sure this doesn't mean the software giant has started flogging humanoid robots. Google Android? And you'd be right. Android is Google's open source software platform for mobile phones - first announced back in... [10 Jul 2009]
Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter
White Paper A botnet is a collection of autonomous software robots (bots), typically malicious in nature, that operate as a network of compromised computers. This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to... [01 Jul 2009]
How to make Google sit up and take notice
Comment You submit your site to a search engine; it sends out spiders to search the entirety of your site that you want searched (pages that you do not want indexing should be in the robots.txt file). The science of web search... [17 Jun 2009]
Developers - give a Wave to Google's real-time collaborator
News There are two main sets of Google Wave APIs - embed APIs, for embedding 'waves' into other web pages; and extension APIs, for creating extra functionality within the Google Wave web client in the form of gadgets or robots. [29 May 2009]
