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UZH Wishes Us All a Happy Robot Easter

Posted: 31 Mar 2013 12:57 AM PDT

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It's a Robot Easter in Zurich, a robots are teaming up to celebrate
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Let’s Talk About Hashtags

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 07:00 AM PDT

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Twitter continues to spawn new social practices, and new words to talk about them

Can Cars Keep Their Cool, Even at 100 Miles Per Gallon?

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PDT

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A look at the top tech cars of 2013 with car critic Lawrence Ulrich

Top 10 Tech Cars: Slenderized

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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This year's cars do more with less weight

Top Tech Cars 2013: Nissan DeltaWing

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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It flies through the air with the greatest of ease

Top Tech Cars 2013: Infiniti Q50

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Today, drive by wire; tomorrow, drive by robot

Top Tech Cars 2013: Ferrari F12 Berlinetta

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Again, we get unmatched speed from the master of same

Top Tech Cars 2013: Ram 1500

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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This pickup's as powerful as it looks, but it's frugal with fuel

Top Tech Cars 2013: Ford Fusion Energi

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Ford hits the magic mark: 100 miles per gallon

Top Tech Cars 2013: Land Rover Range Rover

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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It's lighter than it looks

Top Tech Cars 2013: Chevrolet Spark

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Who needs dashboard buttons?

Top Tech Cars 2013: Mazda6

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Japan unveils the diesel engine with the least compression

Top Tech Cars 2013: Tesla Model S

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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The year's most significant car just happens to be electric

Top Tech Cars 2013: Volkswagen XL1

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Voilá: The world's first production 1-liter car

Drone Manufacturers Whine That They Are Misunderstood

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Americans need to be better educated on benevolent uses of UAVs, they say

Nanoparticles Combined with Light Reverses Rusting

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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Discovery that light can switch the oxidation state from an oxide to a metallic state could alter a multitude of industrial processes

"The Most Hated Climate Scientist in the U.S."

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 11:46 AM PDT

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Yale University profiles one of its more notorious physics PhDs
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ALERT! – ALERT! – ALERT! from MyRobots.com

Alert!

Alert!

MyRobots.com is introducing Alerts! Effective immediately, you can now define alerts for all your robots so they can react to their environment and signal you if there is anything worth your attention.

What is an alert?

In MyRobots.com terms, an alert is a message sent once a certain condition is reached by your robot’s sensors. There are several types of conditions:

  • String – one of the robot’s sensors contains, starts with, is equal to, or ends with a certain string.
  • Status – the same as string, but only applying to the robot status.
  • Numeric – one of the robot’s sensors is less than, equal to, or greater than a certain value.
  • Geo – the robot’s coordinates are within or further than a certain distance of a geographical coordinate.
  • No data check – MyRobots.com raises a flag if the robot did not communicate for a certain period of time.

The alerts can be triggered every time a condition is reached or just once, and the conditions can be checked as they happen or scheduled to be checked periodically. See the video below showing how to create your own alerts.

What can I do with alerts?

Once an alert is triggered, it will be displayed on your MyRobots.com dashboard. You can also choose to receive an email containing a customizable message and, for the more advanced users, you can create a custom HTTP POST to the URL of your choice.

In more practical terms, you could receive an email every time your robot processor overheats or when its battery is almost depleted. A robot could also call another robot for help via a more advanced HTTP POST or activate any smart device it needs to accomplish a task.

In the same way you can share your robot’s information with your friends, they can also view your robots alerts in their dashboards so they could also take action if needed by the robot.

 

Robots can now alert you!

Robots can now alert you!

What will you do?

We believe this is an important milestone in human-robot collaboration and we are eager to see how you start using it. Now that you have this powerful tool at your disposal, what will you do with it? What will your robots be telling you? What is the first alert you will create? Tell us in the comments below.

Coincidence?

It seems like a great coincidence that this tool fits perfectly with this year’s Cloud Robotics Hackathon challenge of remote monitoring! This would be an excellent opportunity to register since this tool makes the challenge much simpler and could get your some of the 3000$ booty they are offering.


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This Week in Cybercrime: “Anonymized” Cellphone Tracking Data is Pure Fiction

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:57 AM PDT

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Plus: Spam-In-a-Blanket

Video Friday: Robot Jellyfish, Robot Dragonfly, and a Crazy Game of Telepresence Soccer

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:42 AM PDT

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When it comes to robotic insects, there is certainly such a thing as far too big

Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PDT

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The total worth of the virtual currency has reached a new high, economists are mystified as to why

Divers Caught Cutting Internet Backbone Cable

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:24 PM PDT

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Egyptian saboteurs damage cable, affect service across northern Africa and Asia

Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 12:47 PM PDT

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New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather

Startup Spotlight: SynTouch Seeks to Enable Robots With 'Machine Touch'

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 12:04 PM PDT

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This California company has developed an innovative tactile sensor modeled after the human fingertip

Internet Spam Fighter Weathers Massive Attack

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 07:42 AM PDT

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Cybercrooks hit Spamhaus with largest DDoS attack ever recorded
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