<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : robots : 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>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : robots : 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[Ten (10) High Technology Robots That May Change The World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots have long been the fascination of people throughout the world. Movies have stretched the imagination and science and technology have made some robots a reality. 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High speed robots would make testing faster, cheaper, and more effective, while leaving animals unharmed.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50757/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50757/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychopathic Robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[If robots are made to exhibit characteristics of the human psyche, then this research explains that they must also exhibit psychopathic tendencies.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41521/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41521/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots Can't Act: Pulp Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots reenacting the 'Say what again' scene from Pulp Fiction.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49986/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49986/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[TIME's 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;For our policemen, we created a race of robots... In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us... At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26159/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26159/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots May Become Essential on US Farms]]></title><description><![CDATA[With authorities promising tighter borders, some farmers who rely on immigrant labor are eyeing an emerging generation of fruit-picking robots and high-tech tractors to do everything from pluck premium wine grapes to clean and core lettuce.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/34872/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/34872/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist: People will marry robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new thesis, entitled &#8220;&#8220;Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners&#8221;, speculates that robots will come to be accepted as suitable marriage partners.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/38040/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/38040/1/</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[Miniature robots play nano soccer]]></title><description><![CDATA[One sixth the size of an amoeba and weighing no more than a few hundred nanograms, the robots play on a field the size of a grain of rice. It's all happening at the RoboCup at Georgia Tech.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26563/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26563/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Pet Robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots.  As pets.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35345/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35345/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots that are &quot;self-aware&quot; (video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that learn and evolve.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38066/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38066/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Humans revel in touch. Touch-spoiled babies grow up healthier; lovers can't keep their hands off each other; and people who master the subtle touch are perceived as friendlier; and THAT could also be key to making robots accepted by humans as social peers, scientists say.       (Is it me, or does that demonstrative pic just look 'wrong')]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/40864/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/40864/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots Battle Autism]]></title><description><![CDATA[It may not be lasers and explosions like Transformers or Terminator, but Robots are doing battle against autism using bubbles!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69726/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69726/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Woo's robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mr. Woo has no formal training in mechanical engineering, none whatsoever, but he goes ahead and makes robots anyway, 24 hours a day. It drives his wife nuts but he just can&#8217;t seem to help himself.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/31430/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/31430/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian robots to replace railway workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian Railways want tiny robots to replace humans in difficult maintenance work, and they want Russian-made androids that can dance and talk.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/44938/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/44938/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household robots,]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68746/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68746/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Scariest Robots Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some kill people. Some try really hard to look cute and human-like, but are all the scarier for it. Why are some robots scary, and some not? You may have a theory, but these robots will likely give even the most rational among us a spook this Halloween.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/40148/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/40148/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots battle it out at Japanese Athletic Meet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots from about 30 firms took part in three-day event which began on Friday. 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