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Likewise, a web crawling robot which follows links such as Google is not effective.
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Looking like a sportier version of NASA's Mars Rover, the first wireless, Web-connected robot sees, hears and speaks for you.
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Google recognizes the Web's power to publicize and offers Web masters a simple interface to remove their own pages from its index. (Type "remove" into Google to get started.) Other preventive measures include putting sensitive info behind password-protected walls and attaching so-called robot files to Web sites that tell search engines not to index a particular page or site.
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The major search engines now use shopping "bots" (for robot) to scour the Web for the best deal.
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Today, Fox is the founder of "Jane and Robot, " which helps Web site developers ensure their sites can be found by potential customers, and "Nine By Blue, " which helps businesses use online data to better understand their customers.
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The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.
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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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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.
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The Web site Mindstorms.lego.com offers two more projects, plus inspirational photos of a robot that mops the floor and one that putts golf balls.
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Natrium 42's homebrew kit is an open robot platform that lets you control your RoboDS (pictured right) with an NDS WiFi connection through a web browser interface.
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