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		<title>Analyzing butterfly flight for better MAV maneuverability</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAVs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro aerial vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) could be very useful in search and rescue, exploration and environmental monitoring missions, due to their small size they still lack maneuverability. Johns Hopkins University (JHU) engineers are using high-speed video cameras to figure out how butterflies manage to fly with amazing grace and agility in order to improve maneuvering [...]

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<li><a href='http://www.robaid.com/bionics/biomimicry-of-butterfly-wing-scale-structure-could-cut-bank-fraud.htm' rel='bookmark' title='Biomimicry of butterfly wing scale structure could cut bank fraud'>Biomimicry of butterfly wing scale structure could cut bank fraud</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.robaid.com/bionics/researchers-observe-flying-insects-to-create-smaller-flying-machines.htm' rel='bookmark' title='Researchers observe flying insects to create smaller flying machines'>Researchers observe flying insects to create smaller flying machines</a></li>
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		<title>Sensorbots to be used in deep ocean monitoring</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/sensorbots-to-be-used-in-deep-ocean-monitoring.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona state university]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep ocean monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ocean observatories initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sensors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university of washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona State University researchers are using their automation, sensors, biotechnology, and systems expertise to develop Sensorbots &#8211; spherical robots equipped with biogeochemical sensors that are affordable enough to be deployed by the hundreds. Sensorbots will be used to monitor the ocean in the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative named Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) project. [...]

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		<title>Shrewbot inspired by shrew whiskers</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/bionics/shrewbot-inspired-by-shrew-whiskers.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bionics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biomimicry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sensors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university of bristol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university of sheffield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiskers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are numerous examples in nature where ‘active touch’ plays a primary role in how an animal finds its way around and how it behaves. Inspired by the Etruscan shrew, one of the world’s tiniest mammals, researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) developed Shrewbot – the newest generation of a robots that use sophisticated [...]

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		<title>Learning about visual communication from robots</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/learning-about-visual-communication-from-robots.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epfl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution of communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neural network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university of lausanne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A joint research project conducted at University of Lausanne (UNIL) and EPFL performed a research that could lead to better understanding of communication within the animal kingdom. They followed the evolution of communication in 100 groups of 20 robots over the course of 1000 generations. The results show that communication systems can evolve differently within [...]

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		<title>Top 5 articles regarding robots in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/lists/top-5-articles-regarding-robots-in-2011.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.robaid.com/lists/top-5-articles-regarding-robots-in-2011.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Aid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aldebaran robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanoid robot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal robot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotic vacuum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the proof of our last year statement that robots are being developed to aid humans in their daily habits, the most popular articles in the last year were nearly all about robots which interact with humans or help us in our everyday lives. There were also many examples of robots whose operation or design [...]

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<li><a href='http://www.robaid.com/robotics/soinn-enables-robots-to-learn-and-adapt-to-new-situations.htm' rel='bookmark' title='SOINN enables robots to learn and adapt to new situations'>SOINN enables robots to learn and adapt to new situations</a></li>
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		<title>Alderaban Robotics reveals NAO Next Gen robot</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/alderaban-robotics-reveals-nao-next-gen-robot.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/alderaban-robotics-reveals-nao-next-gen-robot.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aldebaran robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanoid robot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAO Next Gen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although it was originally released in 2005 as a robot meant for entertainment, the first time we wrote about little robot NAO was in 2009 in our article about 2009 RoboCup. Aldebaran Robotics recently surprised us and released a new and improved version of the NAO robot they dubbed NAO Next Gen. NAO Next Gen [...]

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		<title>You can get your own Kilobot thanks to K-Team Corporation</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/you-can-get-your-own-kilobot-thanks-to-k-team-corporation.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harvard university]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[k-team corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kilobot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swarm robotics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In our previous articles, we already wrote about many examples of swarm robotics, but the researchers from Harvard University stand out by its design simplicity and low cost which is suitable in experiments related to algorithms developed for robotic swarms. Their goal to create a platform that could be produced quickly and inexpensively to form [...]

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		<title>Delta Direct Drive robot capable to perform over 200 operations per minute</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/delta-direct-drive-robot-capable-to-perform-over-200-operations-per-minute.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[direct drive mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epfl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[precision robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotic surgery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1980s, the industry was in need for a new type of robot capable to manipulate light and small objects at a very high speed. Since necessity is the mother of invention, Reymond Clavel from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) committed to find a solution and came up with the Delta [...]

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		<title>R-one swarm robot &#8211; low-cost platform for robotics enthusiast and students</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/r-one-swarm-robot-low-cost-platform-for-robotics-enthusiast-and-students.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrared communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[little robots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[R-one robot is a part James McLurkin’s aspiration to create an inexpensive and sophisticated robot which could be affordable by everyone. McLurkin, who is the director of Rice University robotics lab, decided to improve the robotic platform used by university and lower its cost in order to enable its usage among his students and other [...]

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		<title>New algorithm leads to more efficient robots with predictable movement</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/new-algorithm-leads-to-more-efficient-robots-with-predictable-movement.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[algorithm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from MIT combined two innovative algorithms developed there to build a new robotic motion-planning system that calculates much more efficient trajectories through free space. Although such tasks seem intuitive and simple to us, most of the existing path finding algorithms rely to collision avoiding rather than finding more efficient paths between the robot’s initial [...]

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