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Jun 30 2008

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Bay Area's Pixar Rises Above Bad Economy To Rule Box Office - NBC11.com

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Bay Area's Pixar Rises Above Bad Economy To Rule Box Office
NBC11.com, CA -7 hours ago
when you can roll with a robot? Wall-E, the latest creation of Silicon Valley's Pixar, is steamrolling its Hollywood competition, giving families
'WALL-E' earns $23.2 million on opening FridayHollywood Reporter
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Keeping Iowa Central strong is a priority - Fort Dodge Messenger

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Keeping Iowa Central strong is a priority
Fort Dodge Messenger, IA -7 hours ago
The center addresses such matters as computer-assisted work, robotics and other technological manufacturing methods. The congressman is attempting to secure

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Private Sector: Investment in knowledge (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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Despite current sluggishness, Pennsylvania remains a promising economy with many technology visionaries poised to bring about tremendous change.

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Humanoids handed out to energy ministers ?????????????? - Taipei Times

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Humanoids handed out to energy ministers ??????????????
Taipei Times, Taiwan -Jun 18, 2008
But they had one tiny thing to celebrate — the world’s smallest humanoid robot. [ FULL STORY ] Aristotle. Nietzsche. Buffy? The television series Buffy the

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'WALL-E' trashes competition at top of weekend box office - AFP

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'WALL-E' trashes competition at top of weekend box office
AFP -6 hours ago
The latest offering by Pixar, in which a post-apocalyptic world void of people meets the whimsical humanity of a robot, raked in an impressive 63.1 million

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iRobot Schedules Second Quarter 2008 - Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung)

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iRobot Schedules Second Quarter 2008
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung), Germany -2 hours ago
This proprietary system enables iRobot to build behavior-based robots, including its family of consumer and military robots.

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'Merchants of Death': Arms Dealers Go to Work in Paris - FOXNews

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'Merchants of Death': Arms Dealers Go to Work in Paris
FOXNews -8 hours ago
And yes, there were other enormous boys’ toys to play with, including tanks. The Supacat HMT 4×4 Extenda cross country vehicle, with 50 already in service

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News roundup, - Webware/Cnet

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News roundup,
Webware/Cnet, CA -5 hours ago
The newly redesigned home page on Thursday afternoon was branded with a campaign for the Pixar robot adventure movie Wall-E. By Caroline McCarthy – June 26,

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The Future of Robots - Ivanhoe Broadcast News

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The Future of Robots
Ivanhoe Broadcast News, FL -5 hours ago
BERLIN (Ivanhoe Newswire) — A world of robots may seem like something out of a movie, but it could be closer to reality than you think.

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411 Movies Roundtable: July 2008 Part 1 - 411mania.com

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411 Movies Roundtable: July 2008 Part 1
411mania.com, TX -2 hours ago
The Robot Chicken Star Wars parody comes out, which was hilarious. The season two boxed set of Masters of Horror comes out from the fine folks at Anchor Bay

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Robots on the warpath - Portsmouth News

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Robots on the warpath
Portsmouth News, UK -1 hour ago
By Adam Kula A rugged mini-robot has been designed by a Havant firm to act as a reconnaissance scout for troops. Technology company Mindsheet, which has

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Pirates v. Robots v. Ninjas - Graffiti

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Pirates v. Robots v. Ninjas
Graffiti, WV -8 hours ago
Well, let's just say that all your life Ninjas, Pirates and Robots have been fighting for dominance of the spiritual and secular world.

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Alabama touts 'Rocket City' site - Chattanooga Times Free Press

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Alabama touts 'Rocket City' site
Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN -1 hour ago
The site is only a few miles from the Delphi automotive parts plant in Huntsville, which is scheduled to close next year. The Delphi plant once had more

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Water-efficient floor cleaning robot gets funds - Industrial IT

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Water-efficient floor cleaning robot gets funds
Industrial IT, Australia -58 minutes ago
technological projects to be funded include a water utilisation and a biotherapy project, as well as a water-efficient industrial floor cleaning robot.

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I could use a robot to write this column - The State

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I could use a robot to write this column
The State, SC -2 hours ago
Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots. One of the great toys of the 1960s, they starred in so many TV commercials, it was like they had their own show.

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Technology on the horizon - Malaysia Star

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Technology on the horizon
Malaysia Star, Malaysia -1 hour ago
While this seems like a fairly straightforward idea, it’s really quite a challenge when it comes to robotics. Although industrial robots are already in use

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Lego Introduces WeDo Package for Education (PC World)

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Lego Education, a business unit of the Lego Group, on Monday introduced Lego Education WeDo, a new robotics package designed…

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Futuristic Chembots Squeeze Through Small Spaces (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

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Soft and squishy chemical robots will one day squeeze through tight spots then expand to 10 times larger, offering an advantage over rigid robots. Once a mission is complete, a chembot would biodegrade.

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Robot Learns to Use Tools (Technology Review)

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By shoving objects around on a table, UMan figures out how they work.

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Japan Stocks Rise as Company Sentiment Falls Less Than Expected - Bloomberg

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Japan Stocks Rise as Company Sentiment Falls Less Than Expected
Bloomberg -4 hours ago
Fanuc Ltd., the world's largest maker of industrial robots, slumped 3.4 percent to 10020 yen, extending its decline to a sixth trading day.

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