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Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute Build Disposable Spiderbots With 3D Printer (November 7, 2011): Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA have built a cool looking robot spider.

Mask-bot is a Talking Head Robotic System (November 7, 2011): Researchers at the The Institute for Cognitive System at TU Munchen in Munich, Germany have partnered with Japanese scientists to create Mask-bot.

Gecko-inspired Robot Climbs Straight Up Walls (November 4, 2011): Researchers from Simon Fraser University created this little robot that can climb up smooth walls.

Boston Dynamics Creates Creepy Walking Anthropomorphic Robot Named PETMAN (October 31, 2011): PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics, the creators of the Big Dog robot.

London Designer Exhibits Collection of Vanishing Furniture (October 31, 2011): London Designer Ben Alun-Jones is exhibiting a collection of vanishing furniture.

Roborazzi Takes Party Pictures (October 28, 2011): Greg Shirakyan, a developer on the Microsoft Robotics team, shows off his Roborazzi robot that he built using the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 (RDS4) product.

Japanese Scientists Create Balloon Input Device (October 26, 2011): Japanese scientists from Osaka University have created a balloon input device.

Passenger Planes in 2075 May Fly in Formation and Travel at 5x Speed of Sound (October 25, 2011): The British Institution of Merchanical Engineers (IMechE) has released a report about the future of flight.

CubeStormer II Solves Rubik's Cube Faster Than Feliks Zemdegs (October 22, 2011): There is a new robot that can solve the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube faster than a human.

Japanese Scientists Build a Brother for Female Actroid-F Android Robot (October 22, 2011): Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Kokoro have partnered to create a male version of its android robot, Actroid F.

Scientists Create Human Sized Ping Pong Playing Robots (October 20, 2011): Xinhuanted reports that scientists at Zhejiang University in China have made two large ping pong playing robots.

FoamBot Can Make Its Own Body Parts (October 19, 2011): Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created FoamBot.

PR2 Robot Learns to Scoop Poop (October 18, 2011): PR2 Robots keep learning how to do different tasks.

Scientists Teach iCub Robot to Crawl Like a Baby, Pour Cereal in a Cup (October 14, 2011): iCub is a humanoid robot that was developed as part of the EU project RobotCub.

Steve Jobs: Computers are Like a Bicycle for Our Minds (October 5, 2011): Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died today at age 56.

PR2 Robot Fetches Sandwich From Subway (October 4, 2011): A PR2 robot went and picked up an order from Subway.

Underwater Invisibility Cloak Makes Objects Disappear (October 4, 2011): Using transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes researchers have built an "invisibility cloak" that works underwater.

Boston Dynamics Builds Robotic Beast Named AlphaDog to Carry Heavy Payloads for Miles and Miles (September 30, 2011): This four-legged robot, called AlphaDog, is being developed by Boston Dynamics for military use.

UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab Builds Small Robots Inspired by Cockroaches and Birds (September 27, 2011): UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab is building robots modeled after insects and birds.

Technology Company to Build 20 Square Mile Ghost Town in New Mexico (September 7, 2011): A technology development firm named Pegasus Global Holdings plans to build a 20 square mile ghost town in New Mexico.

SOINN Robot Uses Past Experiences to Solve Problems (September 7, 2011): Japanese scientists have created a robot that applies what it has learned in the past to new situations.

Credit Card Sized mChip Can Diagnose Disease in the Field (August 31, 2011): Nature reports that a new credit card sized device, called mChip, can be used to diagnose diseases like HIV and syphilis in minutes.

Japanese Scientists Create Reagent That Turns Biological Tissue Transparent (August 31, 2011): Researchers at RIKEN, a Japanese research organization, have developed a chemical solution that turns biological tissue transparent.

Researchers Train Orangutans on the iPad (August 31, 2011): MJ and Mahal, two orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo, are taking part in an iPad enrichment program.

Santa Cruz Police Department Testing Computer Program That Predicts Crime (August 17, 2011): The Santa Cruz Police Department is testing a computer program that predicts when and where crimes may occur.