Topic: iRobot Corporation
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Unmanned drone attacks and shape-shifting robots: War's remote-control future
The Pentagon already includes unmanned drone attacks in its arsenal. Next up: housefly-sized surveillance craft, shape-changing 'chemical robots,' and tracking agents sprayed from the sky. What does it mean to have soldiers so far removed from the battlefield?
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Diggin' It
Robots tend the tomatoes
The plants request water or fertilizer, and robots deliver it.
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No one lives in this submarine
A new autonomous robot can cruise underwater for seven months on a single battery charge.
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Battlefields will be big test for 'seeing' robot
In the next 18 months, the US is likely to deploy a potentially breakthrough robot-vision system in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Robots advance, consumers stall
More robots are in the marketplace but a 'Frankenstein complex' prevents their wide acceptance, among other things.
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