Lund, 38, oversees Lego Mindstorms, the world's most popular line of robot tool kits.
In another moment of robot-boosting, South Korea's government promised domestic robots for all homes by 2020.
The deal comes as Makani carries out the first fully autonomous flights of robot kites bearing its power-generating propellers.
Sony's Aibo line of robot pets celebrates its third year with a new entry modeled on a pug.
Through television, books and movies, the face of a robot and its free-wheeled thinking, has clouded our definition of a robot.
The ultimate goal of the competition's creators is to pit human players against a dream team of robot counterparts within the next few decades.
Make no mistake: What's in play is the emergence of a caste-based traffic system, one of robot-haves and have-nots, of steely-eyed electronic wheelmen vs.
Back then, program trading, computer robotic dealers caused an avalanche of selling that blew up the markets in a catastrophic vicious circle of robot trading.
The biggest benefit of robot cars is the most obvious: safety.
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But as fanciful as it seems, the issue of robot rights to protect both them and us is currently being debated by scientists and governments.
On the topic of robot makers, this week also saw robot builder Simon Burfield put together the world's first working wheelchair made of Lego bricks.
This type of robot contains rigid frames and tubes that use linear motors to slide and swing tools into position for welding, cutting, gluing and assembly.
Elsewhere, there's already even been a case of robot hijacking.
"I can call this kind of robot over and tell it I want to talk with someone, just as I use my PC to connect with people today, " Trower says.
Scientists hope to use what they learn to improve robot software, and they are even dreaming--dreaming, we should emphasize--of a team of robot soccer players that could someday compete against humans.
"Robosquirrel" joins a growing list of robot creatures created by UC Davis which include a robot lizard -- used to study display behavior in anole lizards in the Puerto Rican jungle.
Others have the capability to shed or drop off parts of their manipulators so if they get caught up in debris they jettison the trapping section of robot, thus freeing them from the obstruction.
While the last crop of robot dogs looked like squared-off, stylized versions of toy terriers, this new bunch resembles such Sanrio characters as Hello Kitty and Chococat, with big, circular heads reminiscent of cartoon characters.
Now to help facilitate the growth of robot scientists for routine, automated experiment, King and his team are urging that the methods and processes of science be formalized, to remove the ambiguities of natural language and make it easier to reproduce experiments and build the bases of knowledge.
Responsive web design was invented just over two years ago, out of the robot-infused mind of Boston designer Ethan Marcotte (he went on to write a book of the same title).
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Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.
If you feed one of these robot towers new cubes, it will make a copy of itself in just a couple of minutes.
The uninterrupted repetitive gestures, to us the dead giveaway of a robot, correspond exactly in this case to the movements of disciplined prayer and trance.
The dexterity of the robot makes it a good candidate to help save the lives of soldiers.
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In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
The Oscar Wilde's were held on the roof of Bad Robot, JJ Abrams' production company.
Another saw the use of a robot sage grouse hen to study their real-life mating habits.
Yet all we hear about is how expensive it is to buy one of the robot systems.
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The heat from the reactions is transferred to the artificial muscles of the robot, and reshapes them.
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