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Written by William Cox
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Wednesday, 27 July 2005 |
Well, it looks like everyone's favorite robot vacuum and military 'bot maker is going public!
This, my friends, is big news. What does this mean for the future? Are
the customer support lines now going to be outsourced to India? Will
the robots now come with DRM? Or will they turn out like Do-No-Evil-Google?
I'm hoping for the latter (including the skyrocketing share prices).
So, start saving those pennies now so you can grab yourself some shares.
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Thursday, 21 July 2005 |
 Well, it looks like meth lab perps are getting all fancy on law enforcement and boobytrapping their operations. We get a story out of the St. Louis area about a bomb removal robot getting put to good use.
"... RMI-9WT Bomb Removal Robot, owned by St. Louis County police,
... detonated the [bomb] in a nearby open field, preventing certain
injury or death to police and civilians. Shrapnel flew as far as 75
yards away."
"''If not for the robot, our people would have hand-carried them (explosives) out."
The robot sutained about $25,000 worth of damage, but can be repaired,
and is certainly cheaper than buying a new one - about $100,000. The St. Louis police department has at least two of them.
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Thursday, 21 July 2005 |
 Here's a neat article about the UNC Hospital (just down the road from me) using Da Vinci surgery 'bots to treat cervical cancer.
Doctors there think that robots are one of the best ways of doing a
hysterectomy. One patient said, "I had surgery July 1 on Friday and
came home on Saturday."
A docotor said, " ... I don't think it's far-fetched to think that
traditional laproscopy will be obsolete in the next 10 to 15 years ...
" That's pretty crazy to think about. We'll see.
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Written by William Cox
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Sunday, 28 August 2005 |
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*bump*
Ok, for those of you that visit Slashdot regularly, you probably know you can add certain "Slashboxes" to your main page. The current Slashbox list is pretty comprehensive, HOWEVER, GoRobotics.net isn't on there, and that needs to change!
Right under the list it says, "If you ... have a reasonable suggestion for new RSS feeds, please contact
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
." So, I'm suggesting you all do just that. Please
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
and say, "Hey CowboyNeal, how about adding GoRobotics.net to your list of Slashboxes! The URL for the RSS feed is http://www.gorobotics.net/index2.php?option=com_rss&feed=RSS2.0&no_html=1"
Let's see what happens. Thanks.
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Tuesday, 19 July 2005 |
Apparently, Boeing is getting heavy into the Army's new "Future Combat System" plan full force.
Already, 600 Boeing workers in the Kent, WA area are working on the
contract, and at least 100 more are expected to be added by the end of
the year. But, the real crazy part is that that number is only a,
"tenth of the total number of engineers, software developers and others
across the country who are working on the project."
The Army, in a $21 billion dollar move, plans to have a whole brigade
outfitted with, "a family of 18 vehicles and robots, sensors, computers
and communications equipment." In the mean-time, a 3,000 soldier test
brigade is putting the technology to the test.
The Army then plans on buying 15 brigades worth of equipment over a 20 year period.
That, my friend, is a lot of money.
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Much apologies for not covering this sooner, but the