The robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up with the newly formed automation department of Caterpillar, the construction equipment makers famous for these formidable trucks capable of shifting a 240 ton payload.

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With the ability to digest a total of about 9,000 bikes underground this subterranean parking lot in downtown Tokyo offers a secure solution to snaffled cycles.

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Enjoy a mechanical scrap and execute bobs, ducks and swipes with these remote controlled fighting machines, a playful method for pacifists to settle disputes perhaps?

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One of the display robots that stands outside the manufacturing plant of gorillarobots.com in Maine, USA, was lifted over the weekend with apparently no witnesses to the theft of this early eighties stylee comedy bot.

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There are machinesa-plenty out there able to scan pages but the tedious part of the task, the page turning that is, still involves a human element, ScanRobot however does the lot.

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Stuck up on a gantry in someones basement is this formidable pool player by the name of Deep Green, its accuracy for the shot at hand only shadowed by its ability to size up the table for the moves ahead, is this the future of pub installations.

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A new method of house construction is in the final stages of development and you could well be seeing signs stating “Beware Contour Crafting in progress” sometime soon.

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The humble Pillcam has been around for a good few years now, that swallowable (just) camera taking pictures of your internals as it works its way through your system toward the exit, this is the new kid on the block… A remote controlled version.

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