With multisensory environmental awareness, the 32-inch bot can hear, see and sense those around it.
You can transmit your voice through the bot, and control an LED light to convey mood.
This year, though, all of the heavyweight contenders are just one big bot.
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The Roomba uses a more powerful version of the artificial intelligence in Angle's original Genghis bug-bot.
Bot-nets, scripts and other automated tools play key roles, but they don't exist in a vacuum.
Coreper's current chairman, Bernard Bot, is a businesslike Dutchman with a deserved reputation for efficiency.
The Tower Bridge twitter bot was, he admits, completely unsanctioned by the owners of the bridge.
In some clips a technician kicks the bot to show that it can recover its footing.
Solid enough to make me wish for a single-player component other than simply bot-battling.
The behavior of such a spam bot is easy to identify as it spews millions of spam messages.
Bot or not, Facebook ads are far from the ultra-targeted social advertising they were once touted to be.
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The company isn't just media-shy--it also wants to prevent bot creators from figuring out how to evade its analysis.
Don't want to shell out a few thousand bucks for the luxury bot?
It can do this because it is a bot, or software robot, a program that can interact with people.
The Mega-D bot was shut down last year by FireEye network security after identifying it as a mega-source of spam.
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The machine has been dubbed a MacGyver Bot, after the TV character who cobbled together devices to escape life-threatening situations.
First-time visitors are lured in with all sorts of nuttily named puzzles, such as Zombie March, Bot Saves Princess or Lies.
Botanic Inns grew into Northern Ireland's biggest chain on the strength of its original pub, The Bot on Belfast's Malone Road.
Priceline CEO Jeffrey Boyd said in a statement that the company benefited from strong performance in bot hotel and car rentals.
These crashes and idiosyncratic site-traversal patterns are just two of the many bot features that provide for a distinctive bot signature.
You can "virtually visit" friends and family by controlling the WiFi-connected bot remotely, with live video, audio, controls and sensor data.
As prolific as ghost tweeters have become, their numbers aren't anywhere near another, far more ominous form of poster: the ghost bot.
Then we'll be paid a visit by the creators of the Keepon, to discuss the origins of their adorable little dancing 'bot.
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In the case of the PackBot, technicians recovered the controller, an important piece of hardware that could be paired with another bot.
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That kind of multitask humanoid bot might cost as much as a car, ABI Research suggested in a report late last year.
On a lighter note, Bob Sabiston's bot takes a more poetic route and makes up for those art skills you never had.
When Distil identifies a malicious bot on one site, it creates a blacklisted behavioral profile that is deployed to all its customers.
It's also working on Cheetah, a four-legged bot that the company says will run at 20mph when it appears in late 2012.
In late 2008 a notorious colo facility called McColo was hosting a large volume of the command and control infrastructure for bot nets.
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