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Robots

Robots on the rise: How automated workers are replacing humans in China

31 May 2013

Danish robot maker Universal Robots sees a potential goldmine in offering robots with a human touch to small enterprises on the mainland that are struggling with rising wages and a shortage of...

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Robots on the rise in China

31 May 2013

As Liu Yilian busily hands out promotional materials at an international machine-tool show in Beijing, several industrial robots nimbly flex their long arms as they work away behind a glass wall...

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Briefs, November 22, 2012

22 Nov 2012

American DJ held for dealing drugs

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Killer robots not far off, Human Rights Watch warns

21 Nov 2012

Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, campaigners warned.

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Rights group calls for ban on ‘killer’ robots

20 Nov 2012

Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, campaigners warned on...

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Robots are set to do more of China's dirtiest jobs

18 Nov 2012

In China, there's no better time to be a robot. Pictures from this month's International Industry Fair in Shanghai show them duelling with light sabres, playing ping-pong and performing Chinese...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

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Howard Winn

Way to go

2:01AM

News: wine robot

A new vineyard worker is looking for a job in France. He has four wheels, two arms and six cameras, prunes 600 vines per day and never calls in sick.

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Japan rejects PLA offer of robots to handle disaster at nuclear plant

An offer by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to send robots designed to handle nuclear accidents to Japan has been turned down because Tokyo does not want help from the Chinese military.

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Robotic approach to weight loss

Forget fad diets and expensive gym memberships, the next weight-loss tool is set to be a 27cm tall female robot called Autom.

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Tickets to electronic music godfathers Kraftwerk on sale next week

It's probably the oddest oldies concert of the year. Promoter Live Nation has booked reclusive German synth outfit Kraftwerk for December 5 at the AsiaWorld-Arena.

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Robots

After the delightful, visually appealing film, Madagascar, we now have Robots - an ambitious and highly entertaining project from the makers of Ice Age.

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Today's miniature robot is tomorrow's super-creep

Face it - the average robot you see on the news these days makes the Iron Man in The Wizard of Oz look incredibly sophisticated. Today's robots can only wander about, apparently afflicted by...

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