Likewise, a web crawling robot which follows links such as Google is not effective.
Looking like a sportier version of NASA's Mars Rover, the first wireless, Web-connected robot sees, hears and speaks for you.
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.
The major search engines now use shopping "bots" (for robot) to scour the Web for the best deal.
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.
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.
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.
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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