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	<title>ALLROBOTS.com - All about Robots, Robotics and AI</title>
	<link>http://allrobots.com</link>
	<description>ALLROBOTS.com is a blog/webzine on robots, robotics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Cyril Fievet, a French journalist and author.</description>
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		<title>OFRO, a robot-guard in the school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people are talking about it (even in France): a school in South Korea is going to test a robotic guard. The machine, built by Du Robo, is named &#8220;OFRO&#8221; and had been used previously for other surveillance tasks. It has cameras, GPS system and patrols at 7 km/h. 


Quite surprising is this quote, from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/06/01/ofro-a-robot-guard-in-the-school/</link>
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		<title>Robot-assisted visits of &#8220;Chateau de Versailles&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what appears to be a world first, Orange and French robot-builder Robosoft announced yesterday that they are working together to allow people visiting the Chateau de Versailles without leaving their own home.
Starting from June, subscribers to the Orange fiber service will be able to drive a mobile robot from their PC, and see what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/31/robot-assisted-visits-of-chateau-de-versailles/</link>
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		<title>On Singularity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eliezer Yudkowsky, in the newly launched Singularity Institute Blog:
&#8220;Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle. Let&#8217;s say we invent brain-computer interfaces that substantially improve human intelligence. What might these augmented humans do with their improved intelligence? Well, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/29/on-singularity/</link>
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		<title>French &#8220;Festival des Robots&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Festival des Robots&#8221; is taking place right now in Mantes-la-Jolie, France. It will end next sunday and its a first in the country. The event aims to help people understand robotics and mechatronics, thanks to a wide range of animations, round tables and student competitions.
I was there yesterday and it was quite fun. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/24/french-festival-des-robots/</link>
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		<title>Rogun, a domestic robotic guard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Korean start-up Kortech has just announced its Rogun, a humanoid, 1-meter tall robot with advanced skills. 

&#8220;Rogun is capable of guarding homes around the clock; the camera-eyed robot will give a warning to its owner via cell phone when strangers visit an empty house&#8221;, Korntech CEO Lee Dong-hwan said.
Right now, the machine would cost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/21/rogun-a-domestic-robotic-guard/</link>
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		<title>Misc Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not much time to blog these days, but a few interesting things in the news:
. Carnegie Mellon announced the Robot Hall of Fame 2007 inductees. Strange selection, IMHO.
. Michael Bay, director of the long-awaited Transformers movie, released its first theatrical trailer. Wow. Very promising.
. The Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX), a robotic autonomous submarine, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/21/misc-links/</link>
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		<title>NASA tests surgical robots underwater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 12th mission of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) has started 2 days ago, and will continue until next week. The main goal of the mission is the test of two remotely-controlled surgical robots, Raven from the University of Washington and the M-7 from SRI International:
The mission takes place in the Aquarius, a 45-foot-long, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/11/nasa-tests-surgical-robots-underwater/</link>
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		<title>Nec introduces PaPeRo Mini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A press release from the company presents &#8220;PaPeRo Mini&#8221;, a droid-like mobile robot. As the name suggests, the machine is smaller than previous versions of PaPeRo (25 cm tall instead of 38 cm).

As before, the PaPero Mini intends to serve as a &#8220;conversational robot&#8221;: it can move around and is able to perform speech recognition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/08/nec-introduces-papero-mini/</link>
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		<title>On Artificial Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge, who coined the word &#8220;Singularity&#8221;, interviewed by Computerworld:
It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly near future, create (or become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Events beyond such an event &#8212; such a singularity &#8212; are as unimaginable to us as opera is to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/07/on-artificial-creativity/</link>
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		<title>War Robotic Heroes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has a long and very interesting piece on robots and machines used in today&#8217;s battlefields: 
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become an unprecedented field study in human relationships with intelligent machines. These conflicts are the first in history to see widespread deployment of thousands of battle bots.
The most surprising aspect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allrobots.com/2007/05/07/war-robotic-heroes/</link>
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