Bot-nets, scripts and other automated tools play key roles, but they don't exist in a vacuum.
Solid enough to make me wish for a single-player component other than simply bot-battling.
Hopefully with more bot-mods to come, the DS is really blossoming from what we know and love into the task droid we've always wanted.
Others say Storm's collection of zombies is now being split into pieces, which are sold to the highest bidder--a sort of commando bot-force, available for hire.
Those DDoS attacks consisted of a large number of computers, usually organized into a bot-net, launching as much traffic as they could towards the intended victim.
Unlike a typical bot-net, which hijacks PCs with malicious software, that network of unwitting proxies wouldn't leave anything behind on victims' machines, making the attack harder to trace.
"Bot-herders and other 'spam kings' are difficult to track down, especially in so many different jurisdictions and areas around world, with no enforced policies against them, " Manky observes.
Two years ago, the Chicago Board of Trade (nyse: BOT - news - people ) introduced an electronic gold futures contract and has parlayed it into a 19% share of the trading in gold futures.
Other initiatives, such as the large-scope Operation Bot Roast -- an active campaign to track down botnets, find operation control centers and the organizations behind them -- have been only partially successful, as several holes remain in the overall infrastructure.
And Bolt was celebrating with them, doing the 'Mo-Bot' -- copying the celebration of British athlete Mo Farah, who completed a Olympic double earlier in the day winning the men's 5, 000m as well as the 10, 000m earlier in the week -- as he followed his 100m and 200m golds with a relay victory.
The standout product here is the HOM-BOT, a sort of souped-up Roomba, that not only can direct itself, but also comes with some interesting data and camera visualization tools you can access through your smartphone.
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The two-wheeled bot is equipped with a low-resolution monochrome camera that feeds images back to the Operator Control Unit, and since it weighs just a single pound and fits in most cargo pockets, the whole platoon could carry their own in order to really scope out the next bend.
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The Roomba uses a more powerful version of the artificial intelligence in Angle's original Genghis bug-bot.
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I.e. the dual-cameras on the HOM-BOT can show you where the robot is, and mapping presents a display of its path through the house.
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The she-bot features 30 motors spread throughout its body with an additional eight motors in its face for expressing general boredom and disgust with the help.
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At last Fall's PopTech conference in Camden, Maine, he talked up some of the products that have been created with the help of Humblefactory, and other creations from the "maker movement" including the aforementioned Egg-Bot.
We get a first glimpse of the tablet (or at least a tablet with a rear-facing camera) at about 10 seconds into the video posted after the break -- it's being held by a man who just used Thinq from his office to remotely feed his dog while watching the whole thing go down from the camera on his HOM-BOT robotic vacuum cleaner.
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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While domesticated robots are becoming a ( frighteningly) common inclusion in techno-friendly homes, Korean 'bot manufacturer ED has a home-ready robot that sports a plethora of communication venues including ZigBee and RFID.
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With multisensory environmental awareness, the 32-inch bot can hear, see and sense those around it.
You can "virtually visit" friends and family by controlling the WiFi-connected bot remotely, with live video, audio, controls and sensor data.
It's also working on Cheetah, a four-legged bot that the company says will run at 20mph when it appears in late 2012.
People connected with Robot Rachel, whose friendly mien was hard to resist, proved by the curious colleagues who left their desks and trailed the rolling bot, Pied Piper-style.
If you recall, last year it was revealed that up to 35 percent of the world's spam could spring from one source: a bot known as Mega-D.
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Another cool first for this generation of the Mindstorms bot is a 3-D instruction manual, enabling users to see the pieces from all angles to design and construct their own robots.
The outfit's BaroboLink software for Mac, PC or Linux is included to program the Arduino-compatible bot in several languages as well, and can even translate previously created PoseTeach motions into computer routines.
The dog-sized bot, only 73 pounds (33 kilograms), will look for direct evidence of existing life, whether combing the Martian atmosphere for methane, a possible biological byproduct, or checking rocks for a form of carbon favored by cells.
Very similar to the famous Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the six-wheeled bot created by a team at Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute is capable of cruising around the Moon at a reported 100 meters per hour, all the while snapping photos and collecting bits of moon rock for analysis and possible sale on eBay.
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