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Robot Kills VW Worker, We Learn About It From Sarah O'Connor...
Volkswagen confirmed on Monday that a robot killed one of its workers at a German factory in Baunatal, north of Frankfurt .
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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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The Real Steel: Kuratas Is A Giant Transformers-like Robot You Can Drive On The Road
Here's one way to re-discover and bring the inner child that hides in you out in the world: it's named the Kuratas and it comes to us from Japan – could it have been from anywhere else? The Transformers-like Kuratas is the work of Suidobashi...
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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...
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Bmw Copes With Aging Workforce By Making Simple Changes On Assembly Line
For about $50,000, BMW may have begun solving a problem that will be plaguing many automakers: an aging work force. It's not just automakers that will be facing this problem, however, as populations worldwide are getting older; by 2020, the number...
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