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Vigilus - the Robotic Security Guard
By: Michael Guta
The development taking place in the robotics realm seems like it is going to be replacing many of the jobs currently being performed by human beings, and security is them. Robotic security applications for robotics can perform the same tasks over and over without making the mistakes a person can mak… - 05/23/2013

Ants Provide Georgia Tech Researchers Ideas for Robotic Innovation
By: Hannah Bond
The research focuses on how fire ants are able to move so well in as confined a space as a tunnel while keeping the tunnels themselves structurally sound. This type of data can then be used to create robots that conduct better search and rescue operations, an application that is also being looked in… - 05/23/2013

Renewed Robotics Investment Shows Wyss Courting Mother Nature
By: Peter B. Counter
When it comes to the mechanical minions that we employ to scuttle around our environment and help us out in harsh environments or rescue scenarios, nobody provides more support in efficiency research than good old Mother Nature. A constant pool of easy research into highly evolved case studies in me… - 05/22/2013

1950s 8-foot Robot Gygan is up for Auction at Christie's
By: Michael Guta
Gygan or Cygan was the creation of aeromodeller Dr. Ing Fiorito of Turin, Italy, and the robot captured the imagination of everyone that saw it for the first time when it was introduced to the public at the Milan sample fair in 1957. - 05/21/2013

The Bots Go Marching Two By Two...
By: Peter B. Counter
Evolution is the ultimate trial and error process when it comes to the development of biological machines. Countless millennia have seen creatures big and small pay the ultimate price to have their species move on without them and the flawed traits that got them killed, and along with the dead go th… - 05/21/2013

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