<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>There's a robot beneath the fluff. : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>There's a robot beneath the fluff. : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[There's a robot beneath the fluff.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've always been curious about stuffed animals that sing, dance, light up, or talk back. There must be a fascinating robot underneath the fur and fluff, right? Surely the robot hiding in the bear's clothing, vestimentis ursum, is impressive.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/59715/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/59715/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Worlds worst robot.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It claims nothing beats this robot when it comes to pouring beer.<br/>But seriously, ive never seen anything so inefficient in my life.<br/>Possibly the worlds most tedious robot.<br/>(Scroll down for video)]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1794/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1794/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fastest Industrial Robot On The Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from CNRS and the Spanish foundation Fatronik have designed a manipulator-type robot that is twice as fast as all existing robots.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/19596/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/19596/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing robot (no not that robot)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keepon is a robot project by Marek Michalowski of Carnegie Mellon to create a socially rhythmic robot that detects beats and dances to them.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14334/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14334/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists to build robot society ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists in Dundee have announced plans to create a &quot;robot village&quot; in an effort to learn how different cultures emerge in society.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17702/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17702/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot Maker Builds Artificial Boy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The creators believe there's an emerging business in the design and sale of lifelike robotic companions, or social robots. And they'll be showing off the robot boy to students in grades 3-12 at the Wired NextFest technology conference Thursday in Los Angeles.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35609/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35609/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where does a mad scientist go to get all of his robot needs? To the robot store of course.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69927/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69927/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Rise of the robot soldier: Terminator-style war 'could be a reality within 10 years']]></title><description><![CDATA[Robot soldiers that can decide who to attack will soon be roaming the world's battlefields if something isn't done about a global 'robot arms race'. That is the stark warning from a leading robotics expert who spoke today of the dangers of allowing increasingly sophisticated robots to make decisions of life and death.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/52265/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/52265/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Creepy 80-Year-Old Japanese Robot Brought Back to Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gakutensoku is Asia's oldest modern robot, built in 1928.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/59700/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/59700/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots are our Friends]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots are our friends. They really are. You know it is true. Have you hugged a robot lately?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69483/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69483/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad News Robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/70068/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/70068/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Jules ponders sex]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jules, the talking, thinking robot from Hansen Robotics... talks about sex with one of his creators.<br/><br/>Yes, it appears set up, but the robot... really isn't.<br/><br/>More info at <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.hansonrobotics.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hansonrobotics.com/index.html</a></div>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58983/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58983/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot phone buddies]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those who feel a bit lonely just talking on the phone, a Japanese company is offering a cellphone that turns into a robot buddy ready to chat.<br/><br/>I pretty much <b>have</b> to have one of these.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/53191/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/53191/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoltan's Robot Girlfriend (mildly NSFW)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoltan's website shows how he built a robot girlfriend on his website, and explains why he proposed to it in this <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://gizmodo.com/367698/technosexual-one-mans-tale-of-robot-love" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">article</a>.<br/><br/>I cannot even begin to describe how creepy and downright WRONG this is. I feel the need to bathe in bleach now. This guy needs help and a cleaner.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55848/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55848/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot simulates birth.]]></title><description><![CDATA[For $20,000 you can own your own birthing simulator, in the form of a mother robot! Searched under appropriate tags, but found nothing.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/42503/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/42503/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[TeddyBear-Faced Rescue Robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like a cute, friendly version of the Terminator, the Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) can transport casualties over long distances over rough terrain.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/23069/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/23069/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35908/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35908/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot Snakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developers at Carnegie-Mellon have designed a robot that maneuvers like a snake and is capable of crawling up pipes and legs, and navigating otherwise inaccessible places. <br/><br/>Video complete with killer techno music.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53370/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53370/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Monkey's Thoughts Move Robot On Other Side of World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have used a monkey's brain activity to control a robot on the other side of the globe. In what researchers tout as a first-of-its-kind experiment, monkeys' thoughts controlled the walking patterns of a robot in Japan.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47574/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47574/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyberstein Robots Ltd.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This company made a robot entertainer that can be (re)programmed to sing or talk or act in a surprising amount of ways. Astounding.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/69184/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/69184/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird Robot  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the strangest robot I have seen]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/26632/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/26632/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>