Morning News Roundup

Here’s some robot news to kick start your Saturday morning:

Out of Japan comes a story of Roborior (Robot + Interior), a futuristic … thing … with built in camera & infrared sensors that can be used to guard a house, or stream video of your cat to your cell phone. It comes out in November for a paltry sum of around $3,200 USD. At least it looks really cool.
Along the same lines, apparently the Japanese G’ment is spending 3-billion yen a year on their "Super Science" initiative, "splitting the money between 82 high schools, which are using their grants to focus on rocket engineering, genetics and solar energy." The impetus for this is fears of Chinese superiority and slipping math and science scores for Japanese children.
Here’s a short story on a college design class that uses robotics. I wish my Engineering 101 class was that cool.
Discovery Channel talks a bit about robot skin .

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