Really, you look good, Dave! And you look good, too, HAL!

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From the New York Times Magazine"The Real Transformers"
Social Robots
"I was introduced to my first sociable robot on a sunny afternoon in June. The robot, developed by graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was named Mertz..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/magazine/29robots-t.html

Drink Your Milk, Will Robinson! - Robots tend the dairy herd

From: Providence Journal

"Robotics tend the dairy herd"

It's true, this New England system "milks the cows, tracks yield data — even keeps the cows calm"

http://www.projo.com/business/content/BZ_dairyrobot29_07-29-07_OU6EFTU.326d6ea.html

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Take 2 Aspirin and Call My Robot in the Morning

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"Robotics Come to the Operating Room
Patients experience less pain, heal faster with surgeon-directed robot..."
http://southcityjournal.stltoday.com/life_and_style/sj2tn20070724-0725sou_robot.ii1.txt

International (student) Aerial Robotics Competition at Fort Benning

From the Ledger-Enquirer.com...
"Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's an unmanned aerial robotic. College students from around the world are at Fort Benning's McKenna Urban Operations Site..."
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/breaking_news/story/92391.html
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Kuwaitis Defeat Americans (at BotBall, that is)

From Pop City...
"Robotics Botball champs from Kuwait win Pittsburgh trip
Three boys from Kuwait took Pittsburgh by storm this week and, no, it’s not a new band."
http://www.popcitymedia.com/timnews/botball0725.aspx
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NASA is testing "K 10" Robots in the Arctic

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NASA Uses Arctic for Robotics Test...
Interesting article by Josh Cox about current NASA efforts to simulate space conditions in the Earth's artic. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/322640/nasa_uses_arctic_for_robotics_test.html

Also - NASA News Release about this experiemental program...
"NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey in the Arctic Circle -

"We are learning about the awesome potential of human and robot teams," said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., where the group conducting the survey is based. "Studying how humans and robots can maximize scientific returns in sites such as Devon Island will prepare us to walk on the moon and Mars."
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/jul/HQ_07163_Ames_Lunar_Sim_Robot_Survey.html