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BYD's Qin Electric Sedan gets a Dashboard-Mounted "i" Robot
We thought we were done with our coverage on the BYD Qin concept until its world premiere at next week's Auto China 2012 in Beijing, but the Chinese automaker released two more photos of the pure-electric sedan in which, surprise, surprise, we found a robot lurking on top of the dashboard. The pint-sized creation is called "i" Robot and it looks like a cross between a Google Android robot and EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) from Pixar's WALL-E film – that or a futuristic version of South Park's Kenny…
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Audi Seemingly Not Afraid Of Potential 'rise Of The Machines' Scenario
All joking aside, Audi have developed a robot able to work hand in hand with humans without using a safety barrier. It's also the first human-robot cooperation at the VW Group to be applied in final assembly. Read more »...
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Watch Robot Used By Fiat-chrysler Beat Nba Star Marco Belinelli At 3-point Shooting
Industrial automation company Comau SpA has built a robot that is capable of scoring more three-point shots than NBA champion Marco Belinelli. Called Racer and used by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in its plants, the robot challenged San Antonio Spurs shooting...
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Two-ton Diesel-engined Mantis "spider" Can Go Where No Wheeled Vehicle Can
Meet the Mantis, the world’s largest hexapod robot in the world. It took Micromagic Systems and its founder/chief designer Matt Denton four years to design and build the walking robot that is big enough to carry a human passenger. The all-terrain...
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Man Builds Real-life Working Version Of Wall-e For Kids With Cancer
You no doubt remember WALL-E, the love-stricken robot from the successful Pixar movie that bears his name. Now, some four years after the film hit theaters, WALL-E has come to life, no thanks to the efforts of California robotics enthusiast Mike Senna,...
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Chinese Transformer’s: Knock-off’s In Disguise
Chinese automaker, Great Wall, is at it again. This time, they’re knocking off our beloved “robots in disguiseâ€, The Transformers, in order to promote their own knock off vehicles. With the opening of the new Transformers movie, what...
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