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		<title>A Wing and a Tether: Tiny Robotic Insects Now Capable of Controlled Flight</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/a-wing-and-a-tether-tiny-robotic-insects-now-capable-of-controlled-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of recent insect-inspired feats of digital derring-do &#8212; I just wrote about a clever bug-eyed camera yesterday &#8212; let&#8217;s hear it for RoboBees, tiny insectile robots that took to the air with purpose for the first time last summer, and who finally hit the interwebs this week. By purpose, I mean they buzzed around for more than a few seconds, executing aerial maneuvers the opposite of haphazardly. We&#8217;ve already seen creepy/cool flying robots capable of sophisticated airborne coordination, but RoboBees &#8212; designed by researchers at Harvard&#8217;s robotics laboratory &#8212; are some of the tiniest around: roughly the size of a quarter and weighing less than a tenth of a gram (down in &#8220;grain of sand&#8221; or &#8220;drop of water&#8221; territory, in other words). Despite the name &#8220;RoboBees,&#8221; they&#8217;re actually inspired by the fly biology, their tiny dragonfly-like wings (moving 120 times a second) and slender vertical bodies micro-manufactured at the sub-millimeter scale. And now they&#8217;re responding to sophisticated orders: In the video, one leaps into the air, hovers for a few seconds, then twists ever-so-gently in place; later, you can see its arguably more impressive maneuver, gliding left and right several times to indicate its responsiveness &#8212; crude for a biological fly, sure, but astonishing for a fly-bot. &#8220;This is what I have been trying to do for literally the last 12 years,&#8221; said Harvard professor Robert J. Wood, principal investigator on the project, in Harvard&#8217;s press writeup. &#8220;It’s really only because of this lab’s recent breakthroughs in manufacturing, materials, and design that we have even been able to try this. And it just worked, spectacularly well.&#8221; In a paper on the technology, published today in Science, the team describes its fly-like micro-bots as using &#8220;high-power-density piezoelectric flight muscles.&#8221; Piezoelectric actuators can convert mechanical signals into electrical ones or vice versa (think microphones or earphones), and they work especially well in tiny robotic systems because they&#8217;re lightweight and consume relatively little power. In this case, the actuators are made of ceramic strips that expand and contract when subjected to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161780&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIRST Robotics Competition: Students Teaching Robots, and Vice Versa</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/first-robotics-competition-students-teaching-robots-and-vice-versa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, I drove down to the event center at San Jose State University and watched a bunch of squat, wheeled robots compete in a strange game which involved both hurling Frisbee-style discs into slots and climbing up jungle-gym-like pyramids. It was fun. But it was also inspiring &#8212; because the robots were designed by teams of high-school students participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition, a contest that&#8217;s been going on for 21 years now. Founded by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST stands for &#8220;For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,&#8221; and its goal is to get young people excited about becoming leaders in science and technology. The competition, which attracts thousands of teams from around the world, gives students a challenge (this year&#8217;s was &#8220;Ultimate Ascent,&#8221; the flying-disc-and-pyramid game) and six weeks to build a robot to participate in it. What I watched was the Silicon Valley Regional, which attracted more than sixty teams, mostly from Northern California but also from Oregon, Texas, Florida and Mexico. Among the sponsors: both Google and the Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki Foundation, founded by Google&#8217;s cofounder and his wife. Here&#8217;s a bit of video I shot of the competition in progress. (Teams get grouped into alliances, and Ultimate Ascent is played with two alliances of three robots apiece.) (That robot getting knocked over was an accident, not intentional robot-on-robot violence &#8212; this is not BattleBots, and encouraging &#8220;gracious professionalism&#8221; is one of FIRST&#8217;s defining goals.) Play was divided into three parts. First, robots tried to shoot discs into the slots autonomously. Then the teams remote-controlled their robots around the playing field to shoot additional discs. Then the remote-controlled robots tried to hoist themselves up the pyramids. (That was a particularly difficult tasks &#8212; I saw many bots fail to get very far at it, and some were designed only for the disc-shooting aspect of the contest.) Here are members of one team tending to a robot in the NASCAR-like pit next to the playing field: Harry McCracken / TIME.com And here<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159741&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Robot Swarms of the Future (Because Sometimes It Takes a Village)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/01/watch-robot-swarms-of-the-future-because-sometimes-it-takes-a-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think about robots, you probably imagine vaguely humanoid machines, say Rosie from The Jetsons, C-3PO from Star Wars or maybe the T-800 from The Terminator. But what about robots the size of tea cups that scoot around on tiny wheels, snapping pictures with miniature cameras and keeping track of where they are in relation to dozens of others? If you&#8217;ve seen Farscape, imagine Moya&#8217;s DRDs (diagnostic repair drones) without the eye stalks, plasma welders and lasers. If you haven&#8217;t seen Farscape, imagine a bunch of beetle-like droids scooting around, Roomba-style, working in concert to carry out various tasks, a little like super-sized body cells or immune system antibodies. It&#8217;s called &#8220;swarm robotics,&#8221; and we&#8217;ve seen real-world examples before, like these autonomous nano quadrotors devised by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania that can fly in formation &#8212; think &#8220;Live Action Space Invaders&#8221; &#8212; and actually build stuff. (No, it&#8217;s not an April Fools&#8217; joke &#8212; those things really exist.) The idea behind swarm systems sounds simple enough: Instead of building largish, single-body robo-mechanisms, you organize platoons of smaller ones capable of coordinating behaviors, allowing for rapid spatial reconfiguration and task optimization in a given scenario, say pushing an object along the ground and being able to simultaneously alter its trajectory by quickly shifting the way you apply force to it. Swarm-like analogies in nature might include colonies of ants working together to drag objects around, biological cell-based systems and the neural structure of the human brain itself. That&#8217;s how U.K.-based Sheffield Center for Robotics describes it, anyway, where researchers have been working to get some 40 smallish ground-based robots to play well together. As robotic lab honcho Dr. Roderich Gross puts it, &#8220;There&#8217;s no central entity that controls everything &#8230; all the little parts interact with each other, and complexity arises from these interactions.&#8221; Each robot taken alone isn&#8217;t much to write home about: a &#8220;tiny little brain&#8221; housed in a hockey puck-style cage that includes two wheels to move around, a camera, a microphone, a speaker, an accelerometer and proximity sensors<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159350&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Robotic Jellyfish &#8216;Cyro&#8217; Could Work for Navy, Come After You</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/29/watch-robotic-jellyfish-cyro-could-work-for-navy-come-after-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mention unmanned drones these days and you&#8217;ll conjure images of tiny plane-like vehicles packing serious heat. Mention unmanned deep sea drones that look like umbrella-shaped aquatic critters and you&#8217;ll probably conjure something more like a blank stare. And yet the notion of a lifelike jellyfish robot isn&#8217;t new: Researchers at the University of Texas in Dallas, Providence College in Rhode Island, the University of California in Los Angeles, Stanford University and Virginia Tech have been jointly working on the technology for years. Last March, for instance, we wrote about their work on Robojelly, a silicon-based, hand-sized robot that wriggles like a jellyfish by flexing synthetic muscles to pump out water. Why not something sleeker or more powerful, say an octopus or a shark? Because the way a jellyfish moves is so efficient that it&#8217;s even been studied for non-oceanic engineering purposes, from crafting more efficient submarines and balloon-like flying devices to developing superior alternatives to propeller-based wind turbines. Imagine a fully-realized version of such a robot running underwater surveillance missions for the U.S. Navy &#8212; the marine version of a weaponless drone, in other words, perhaps poking around someone&#8217;s oceanfront property (or, heaven forbid, employed in a civilian capacity by ignoble paparazzi to stalk celebrities). Cool, but a little creepy, right? Also: not a pet project. The researchers have a $5 million grant from the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the Office of Naval Research to build robots capable of autonomously scooting around the ocean blue. Their purpose could range from undersea spying for the military to more innocuous activities, say keeping tabs on environmental issues like oil spills or creating detailed maps of the ocean floor. Now meet &#8221;Cyro,&#8221; the 5-foot, 7-inch, 170-pound latest iteration of this robo-jellyfish project. That&#8217;s considerably bigger than Robojelly, in part because a larger robo-jellyfish could carry a more substantial payload, including enough power to stay in the ocean for lengthy periods of time, say weeks, months or longer still. Also: Robojelly required a tether to provide power &#8212; Cyro requires none. According to Geek.com, Cyro consists of a central<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159231&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Robot Chimp that Turns into a Tank</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/14/finally-a-robot-chimp-that-turns-into-a-tank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The harrowing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Chilean Copiapó mine collapse: extraordinarily dangerous circumstances that called for not just human but superhuman solutions. Enter the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a gauntlet-dropping cool-as-it-sounds competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense in which advanced robotics researchers work to create robots capable of executing &#8220;complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments.&#8221; To the winner, the spoils &#8212; to the tune of $2 million. The DRC launched back in April 2012, entering its second phase last October, which was when I noticed Boston Dynamics&#8217; Pet-Proto, a bipedal robot capable of sussing its surroundings and navigating complex obstacle courses, including climbing and leaping with uncanny agility from platforms. During DARPA&#8217;s two-year competition, teams must work to design, tweak and test either humanoid or non-humanoid robots: agile and durable mechanical servants capable of treading where most humans wouldn’t dare, like exploring collapsed mines or caves, defusing explosive devices and working in deadly radiation-saturated areas. We&#8217;re starting to see some of the challenge&#8217;s contenders take shape: Carnegie Mellon just announced that it&#8217;s building an ape-like robot, but with tank treads undergirding all four limbs. The 10-person research team with CM&#8217;s National Robotics Engineering Center calls it a CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP for short, and it&#8217;s part of a project dubbed &#8220;Tartan Rescue.&#8221; According to Carnegie Mellon News: Though the appearance of &#8230; CHIMP, is vaguely simian, its normal mode of locomotion will be much like that of a tank, with the tracks of all four limbs on the ground. This configuration would offer a particular advantage when moving over debris and rough terrain. But CHIMP also can move on the treads of just two limbs when needed, such as when it must use one or more limbs to open a valve, or to operate power tools. Carnegie Mellon Not only that, but look closely at CHIMP&#8217;s &#8220;foot&#8221; treads and yep &#8212; that&#8217;s a second pair of hands jutting from its robotic heels, sporting two fingers and an opposable thumb. Creepy and cool! CHIMP&#8217;s drive joints allow it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158141&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Robotic Dog That Can Toss Cinder Blocks Like They&#8217;re Beanbags</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/01/finally-a-robotic-dog-that-can-toss-cinder-blocks-like-theyre-beanbags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have covered BigDog before. BigDog is the aptly-named, big, dog-like robot from Boston Dynamics that, according to the company, &#8220;is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads.&#8221; The project is funded by DARPA, as are several other Boston Dynamics robots &#8212; the company has posted several videos of the robots in action on its YouTube channel. Here&#8217;s PETMAN: He can do push-ups and you can&#8217;t knock him off-balance. Here&#8217;s Cheetah Robot: It can run 28.3 miles per hour. And here&#8217;s a BigDog greatest hits montage of sorts: I&#8217;m trying unsuccessfully to avoid referring to BigDog as a scary robot, since it&#8217;s been done a thousand times before on a thousand different blogs. But look at those guys trying to kick BigDog off-balance and watch BigDog scramble back to its feet. Nice doggie. I&#8217;m an American. I&#8217;m on your team. And here we have the latest BigDog video, wherein Boston Dynamics has outfitted man&#8217;s best friend with the ability to whip cinder blocks around: According to Gizmag: Key to this work, funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, is that BigDog uses the dynamic forces of its whole body to help it throw the cinder block. It begins by taking several steps to the side before quickly accelerating as it swings its arm, temporarily launching itself into the air in the process. This approach is similar to the way an athlete winds up before throwing a discus, for example, and greatly enhances the robot&#8217;s throwing power. Since few robots are as capable as BigDog when it comes to balance, it&#8217;s an excellent platform to test these sorts of strenuous actions. Is BigDog&#8217;s cinder block-throwing feature useful in the real world? I don&#8217;t know. Probably! My iPhone came preloaded with a compass app that I never use, but it&#8217;s nice to know that it&#8217;s there. And I&#8217;d surely pony up for a consumer version of BigDog that could lightly &#8212; lightly! &#8212; toss various consumable items from the kitchen to the living room. BigDog grabs, lifts, and throws cinder blocks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157446&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Ban &#8216;Killer Robots&#8217;? Human Rights Group Thinks So</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/20/should-we-ban-killer-robots-human-rights-group-thinks-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if deploying drones &#8212; unmanned aerial vehicles &#8212; on the battlefield wasn&#8217;t controversial enough, here&#8217;s an even more disturbing question: Should we allow weapon-wielding robots that can &#8220;think&#8221; for themselves to attack people? Imagine a drone that didn&#8217;t require a human controller remotely pulling its strings from some secure remote location &#8212; a drone that could make decisions about where to go, who to surveil&#8230;or who to liquidate. No one&#8217;s deployed a robot like that yet, but international human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch sees it as an issue we need to deal with before the genie&#8217;s out of the bottle. The group is calling for a preemptive ban on all such devices &#8220;because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict.&#8221; They&#8217;ve even drafted a 50-page report titled &#8220;Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots,&#8221;which lays out its case against autonomous weaponized machines. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing in artificial intelligence or robotics that could discriminate between a combatant and a civilian,&#8221; argues Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield, in the HRW video above. &#8220;It would be impossible to tell the difference between a little girl pointing an ice cream at a robot, or someone pointing a rifle at it.&#8221; And that&#8217;s the chief concern: that a robot given autonomy to choose who to attack, without human input, could misjudge and either injure or kill unlawful targets like civilians in combat. Autonomous, non-sentient robots would also, obviously, lack human compassion, as well as the ability to assess a situation proportionally &#8212; gauging whether risk of harm to civilians in a given situation outweighs the need to use force. Autonomous weaponized robots also raise the thorny philosophical question of who would be accountable, say such a robot did injure or kill a civilian (or anyone else, unlawfully). Remember, autonomous doesn&#8217;t equal conscious, so punishing the robot&#8217;s out. Who then? The operational personnel that programmed or deployed it? The researchers that designed it? The military or government in general? In a statement accompanying the report, HRW warns<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151716&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Humans Can Hang Out with Rats by Using Virtual Reality and Robotics</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/07/finally-humans-can-hang-out-with-rats-using-virtual-reality-and-robotics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science, you&#8217;re kind of crazy &#8212; especially when you&#8217;re doing stuff like this: &#8220;beaming&#8221; humans into animal care facilities and rats into laboratories, allowing them to interact with each other on the same scale, sort of like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets The Surrogates. Because you&#8217;ve been waiting all your life to hang out with a rat, right? Not literally beaming &#8212; no human or rat molecules flashed through time and space. Matter was not converted to energy then back to matter. Bodies weren&#8217;t quantum dematerialized and rematerialized on disco-dance-style platforms. And no, actual shrink-rays were not involved. But you might say virtual ones were. Using a virtual reality simulation and a robot, researchers have successfully paired a human with a rat, allowing each to interact with the other at the same scale, simultaneously, in both a virtual and actual arena. We all know how virtual reality works, right? Stick something on your head, say a motion-tracking helmet or pair of goggles capable of conveying visual information and presto: the illusion of being in a virtually real environment. Today&#8217;s VR simulations are crude by filmic standards, granted &#8212; nothing like what Neo and pals get up to in The Matrix when they slide those slim metal spikes into their cerebellums &#8212; but more than capable of rendering plausible simulated vistas. Imagine a virtual arena inhabited by two humans avatars &#8212; one is actually human, the other isn&#8217;t. In fact this other human-like avatar is actually a rat in another location altogether, its body and movements monitored by tracking software and translated to the virtual arena in human form. This is what the human wearing the VR helmet sees. What the rat on the other end sees is a real-world robotic rat, linked through software to the human wearing the VR helmet. When the human moves, the robo-rat moves. In this way, the rat can interact with the human virtually pretending to be a rat, and the human can interact with the rat virtually translated into human form. When the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=150558&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: Guy Uses Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg to Climb 103-Story Chicago Skyscraper</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/05/watch-guy-uses-thought-controlled-bionic-leg-to-climb-103-story-chicago-skyscraper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is definitely from the future: a guy, using the power of his mind, literally, to control a bionic leg and climb a skyscraper in Chicago &#8212; all 103 floors, if you can believe it. Meet Zac Vawter, the 31-year-old man making history with an $8 million, 9-pound aluminum robotic leg attached at his right thigh, just above the knee. He lost that part of his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2009. Yes, that&#8217;s really him kicking a soccer ball in the video above. There&#8217;s no wireless remote control mechanism involved, no person behind the curtain with a joystick nudging the controls. Climbing 103 stories on an artificial leg would itself sound impressive enough, but we&#8217;re starting to see artificial legs everywhere these days. Take Oscar Pistorious during this summer&#8217;s Olympics. The guy &#8212; a double-amputee below the knees &#8212; ran on a pair of carbon fiber prostheses (they look like stubby skis). Pistorious was the first double-leg amputee to participate in the Olympic Games, and went on to win gold medals in the men&#8217;s 400-meter and 400-meter relay during the Paralympic Games. Pretty incredible stuff. But what Vawter&#8217;s doing seems even more incredible: wielding a thought-controlled prosthesis, the culmination of research involving various universities and the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. Why use a robotic prosthesis in lieu of a simpler, non-robotic one? &#8220;It puts energy in when I&#8217;m walking, it puts energy into that,&#8221; says Vawter in the video above, &#8220;whereas my normal prosthetic is dumb, per say, and doesn&#8217;t respond or react to me.&#8221; He&#8217;s putting that energy to good use: On Sunday, Vawter participated in SkyRise Chicago, a fundraising event held at the Willis Tower, billed as the &#8220;world&#8217;s tallest indoor stair climb event,&#8221; according to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Climbing with almost 3,000 others, Vawter ascended 103 flights of stairs, all the while monitored by researchers, the idea being that refined versions of this tech could become available to the general public in the next 10 years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=150432&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: Humanlike DARPA Robot Climbs and Leaps from Obstacles with Mad Skills</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/26/watch-human-like-darpa-robot-climbs-and-leaps-from-obstacles-with-mad-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture an eerily human-like tangle of metal, wiring and lights, cables dangling from somewhere above like puppet strings. Imagine it springing to life, lifting a long, lanky leg that bends 180 degrees at the hips like the eerie biomechanical Gekko in Metal Gear Solid 4, then placing one foot on a high bench and flexing its ankle, probing, testing, as it leans its thick cage of a torso forward, its arms splayed against plastic and wood walls on either side. And then it&#8217;s up, hoisting its bulk into the air, its arms swinging forward just as yours or mine would, finding its feet, gently quaking, balancing. Now picture it leaping back down, landing first one foot, then the other, making a thunderous sound like someone swinging a sledgehammer at sheet metal (or the noise you&#8217;d imagine a hulking robot might generate as it falls from above, like a BattleTech mech). Next &#8212; and you can see all this and more in the video above &#8212; it&#8217;ll straddle a shallow pit teeming with deadly lizards and snakes (okay, just rubber ones, but still scary!) using both legs, edging past the gap fluidly&#8230; Meet Pet-Proto, a Boston Dynamics-designed bipedal robot, related to the company&#8217;s anthropomorphic PETMAN project. It&#8217;s capable of analyzing and navigating complex obstacle courses, making decisions autonomously, and with, if not the actual dexterity of a human being, at least the functional semblance of one. It&#8217;s all part of DARPA&#8216;s (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) work to promote its ambitious DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), which initiated its second phase on Wednesday, Oct. 24 since launching back in April. The contest will test the sort of capabilities illustrated above and others &#8220;in a series of tasks that will simulate conditions in a dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environment.&#8221; &#8220;Robot enthusiasts, the time has come,&#8221; says DARPA on its website. &#8220;The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) begins today. Will you be part of it?&#8221; It&#8217;s just the start of what&#8217;ll amount to a two-year ordeal for teams competing to design, tweak and test rescue either humanoid or non-humanoid robots:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=149561&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet X1, the Exoskeletal Robot Suit that Could Make Astronauts Super-Strong</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/15/meet-x1-the-exoskeletal-robot-suit-that-could-make-astronauts-super-strong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With X1, a robotic augmentation riff on NASA's space-faring Robonaut, it sounds like technology that was originally designed to help paraplegics walk could be used by NASA to make astronauts stronger as well as keep them fit during lengthy space sorties.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148265&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take Kinect, Add Robotics, Strap to a Human and Presto &#8212; Automatic Building Mapper!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/28/take-kinect-add-robotics-strap-to-a-human-and-presto-automatic-building-mapper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would it surprise you to learn researchers at MIT have come up with a chest-mounted mapping tool that could eventually aid emergency responders? That it involves everyone's favorite motion-sensing tinker toy, Microsoft's Kinect?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147281&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Future of U.S. Space Exploration After Curiosity</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/01/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-the-future-of-u-s-space-exploration-after-curiosity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon, NASA's Curiosity rover will hopefully survive its "seven minutes of terror" and land safely on the surface of Mars. What comes next for U.S. space exploration? Techland asked famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=140313&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mission to Mars: 8 Amazing Tech Tools Aboard NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/16/mission-to-mars-8-amazing-tech-tools-aboard-nasas-curiosity-rover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming Curiosity -- aka the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL -- survives the 354-million mile journey, here's a look at some of the technology it'll deploy during its nearly two-year exploratory mission.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=139048&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Insect-Inspired Legs Could Help Robots Walk on Asteroids</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/how-insect-inspired-legs-could-help-robots-walk-on-asteroids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=132969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While a James Cameron-backed asteroid mining company might have an abundance of money and imagination, the actual technology to mine asteroids doesn't exist... yet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=132969&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Finally Create Robotic Buttocks That React to Human Touch</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/10/scientists-finally-create-robotic-buttocks-that-react-to-human-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's best and brightest created the Internet, cracked the human genome and landed machines on Mars. Also, someone created a robotic butt.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=131644&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robot That Connects to Neurons Could Provide Key to Understanding the Human Brain</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/09/robot-that-connects-to-neurons-could-provide-key-to-understanding-the-human-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a team of researchers developed could change how we test drugs forever, not to mention provide a kind of periodic table for neurons in the brain — a detailed map of which neurons do what and how they all interact.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=131223&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet HERB, the Robot Butler That Knows How to Use a Microwave</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/03/meet-herb-the-robot-butler-that-knows-how-to-use-a-microwave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike most butlers, HERB is equipped with a spinning laser that allows it to create three-dimensional models of the world around it. Also, it knows how to work a microwave.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=130666&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Advances in Robotics Help the Disabled See the World Around Them</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/02/new-advances-in-robotics-help-the-disabled-see-the-world-around-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=130324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robots are natural candidates for helping people with disabilities, mainly because they have to simulate senses that most of us take for granted.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=130324&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Asks Who&#8217;s to Blame When Robots Harm Us</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/25/new-study-asks-whos-to-blame-when-robots-harm-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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