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Would the Mob Really Break Your Virtual Kneecaps With Counterfeit Chips?
Mapping Eliza: Decoding DNA Secrets
Any Mobile Device Can Display Glasses-Free 3-D Images With This Novel Plastic Film
First Portable Telephone Call Made 40 years Ago Today

Would the Mob Really Break Your Virtual Kneecaps With Counterfeit Chips?

Posted: 04 Apr 2013 07:48 AM PDT

Apparently, the next chip security threat could come from organized crime, says IOActive

Mapping Eliza: Decoding DNA Secrets

Posted: 04 Apr 2013 07:43 AM PDT

In this one-hour radio special, an IEEE Spectrum editor gets her genome sequenced and reveals her genetic destiny.

Any Mobile Device Can Display Glasses-Free 3-D Images With This Novel Plastic Film

Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:58 AM PDT

Nanoimprinting methods revive age-old lenticular lens technology to enable smartphones display 3-D content

First Portable Telephone Call Made 40 years Ago Today

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 09:51 PM PDT

Walking down a Manhattan sidewalk, Motorola's Martin Cooper called his rival at AT&T Bell Labs

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Meet MAKI, an Open Source Robot

Posted: 03 Apr 2013 12:39 PM PDT

The folk over at Hello Robo have just launched a Kickstarter for MAKI, their 3D printable Humanoid Robot. MAKI is built around 6 DYNAMIXEL AX-12A controlled with the Arbotix Robocontroller. The current version of MAKI is a robotic head, capable of emoting and interacting with humans via it’s built in webcam.

And while MAKE might just be a robotic head right now, Hello Robo plans to keep on adding functionality to MAKI to make it more and more versatile. The final strechgoal for this project involve upgrading MAKI to have two full robotic arms.

Backers for the Kickstarter will get everything from STL files to print MAKI and T-Shirts to hardeware kits and even a fully built version of MAKI.

Thanks to Arbotix Creator Michael Ferguson for telling us about about MAKI

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BionicOpter, Festo Builds a Dragonfly
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BionicOpter, Festo Builds a Dragonfly

BionicOpter by Festo

Festo, the german automation company, recently unveiled its latest creation: BionicOpter, a robotic dragonfly. This new robot emulates the complex flight technique of a dragonfly and is capable of high manoeuvrability as shown in the video below. Once again, Festo uses biomimicry to create quite an elegant and capable robot.

This robot uses a rather clever design and features a very ingenious mechanism, that allows it to have all the degrees of freedom and complex motion capability required while remaining light and efficient. The video below explains how the robot works internally:

Via FestoHQ.

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Prepare Yourself: National Robotics Week Is Next Week!
Nanostructures of Butterfly Wings Lead to Anti-counterfeiting Technique
Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

Prepare Yourself: National Robotics Week Is Next Week!

Posted: 03 Apr 2013 07:42 AM PDT

It's National Robotics Week next week in the United States, so find a way to celebrate with ROBOTS!

Nanostructures of Butterfly Wings Lead to Anti-counterfeiting Technique

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 11:56 AM PDT

New company expects to see clients using the technique on their products this year

Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:17 AM PDT

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

IEEE Spectrum

A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells
DARPA ARM Robot Can Now Change Your Tires
Movea’s Data Fusion Transforms Sensors Into Indoor Navigation

A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 08:45 AM PDT

Researchers hope to one day be able to print out an entire human liver

DARPA ARM Robot Can Now Change Your Tires

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 06:41 AM PDT

DARPA's Autonomous Robotic Manipulation program is gunning for AAA

Movea’s Data Fusion Transforms Sensors Into Indoor Navigation

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 12:28 PM PDT

Software company Movea helps app developers corral the data from the sensors that pack today's mobile devices

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Web Intelligence Report: RobotShop vs. iRobot
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Web Intelligence Report: RobotShop vs. iRobot

According to Alexa, the leading provider of global web metrics, RobotShop and iRobot have been head to head for a while in terms of web traffic. The graph below (courtesy of Alexa) shows RobotShop in blue and iRobot in red, specifically for the US market:

Daily traffic rank trend for the last two years

Daily traffic rank trend for the last six months

We all know iRobot as the leading manufacturer of domestic robots, largely because of their success with the Roomba. However, RobotShop has over 5000 products which creates a lot of keywords and links which search engines love to index. The graph below shows the extent of organic keywords between RobotShop and iRobot for the US market:

RobotShop vs. iRobot organic keywords

Nevertheless, RobotShop’s success is not only because we have a vast selection of robotic products at competitive prices, but also because of our excellent service and our 5-year warranty on all domestic robots. These are just some of the many reasons why you should order your next domestic robot at RobotShop.

Stay tuned for the next Web Intelligence Report.

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