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Wired November 2002 Tom McNichol	Why 6-Legged Bots Rule Forget two-legged bots -- forget androids altogether. Bio-guru Robert Full has seen the future of robotics, and it's one part cockroach, one part millipede, one part Internet.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Aleksandar Lazinica	The Hits of Tokyo Robot Week Highlights from last month's big robotics exhibition in Japan: Almost Human: The Actroid humanoid robot... Expressive Features: Close-up of Actroid robot... Baby Seal Bot: The therapeutic robot PARO... etc.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2008	Slideshow: Two Takes on Stretchy Circuits Breakthroughs in the United States and Japan allow for stretchable circuits, curved camera chips, and more.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009	Slideshow: The $71.2 Million Arm The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending at least US $71.2 million to reinvent prosthetic arms from the ground up.
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson	Students Hope Robot Snakes Slither Out of Lab A family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes have potential use in search-and-rescue and surveillance missions.
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National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Landing Gear Prototypes for Robotic Birds Take Off The Defense Department is pursuing the development of bird-like and insect-sized flying robots to give troops more overhead surveillance options in future conflicts.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Slideshow: The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Pictures Even in a slumping economy, CES had plenty of intriguing gadgets.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss	Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.
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IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Erico Guizzo	When the Wind Blows in the Galapagos How an ambitious wind-power project is helping protect one of the most exquisitely beautiful places on Earth.
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IEEE Spectrum October 2008	Slideshow: A TechShop Snapshot Much inventive thinking takes place during a typical day at this community tool workshop.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Jean Kumagai	Ash Nehru: Everything Is Illuminated Photos of United Visual Artists latest exhibits that create sophisticated light displays.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Erico Guizzo	Green Machines This year's top tech cars squeeze more performance from less fuel than before, leaving a smaller carbon footprint.
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IEEE Spectrum July 2010	The Robot Baby Reality Matrix Some robot babies look real. Some act real. A few do both
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IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Susan Karlin	Robotics' Wild Kingdom An engineer looks to nature to make robots that slither through pipes and climb walls.
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Popular Mechanics February 26, 2008 Erik Sofge	Turning Disabled Into Gamers, MIT Aims to Spread Robot Rehab One study of stroke victims indicated that robot therapy accelerated recovery and patients continued to improve even after the therapy was over.
Popular Mechanics February 2010 Erik Sofge	The Uncertain Future For Social Robots Humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction. Today, experts caution against a more insidious threat: We might like living with them too much.
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield.
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Popular Mechanics July 2009 Erin McCarthy	Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details
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