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ALAN-BOT: So you are a robot. SHRUTI-BOT: No, my name is Cleverbot. ALAN-BOT: Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot. SHRUTI-BOT: I am a robot. ALAN-BOT: Yes, I know. SHRUTI-BOT: Together, we are robots.

The same hardware can autonomously control planes, multicopters, regular helicopters, rovers, even boats, with just a one-click firmware change--no programming required! Best-of-breed mission planning and two-way telemetry, and soon with advanced scripting with Python for robot acrobatics and more.

Computers don’t care about API design. Convenient serialization formats, sane parameter names, and a RESTful interface mean nothing to a robot.  These aspects of an API are not meant for a machine, they’re meant for you – the developer.  APIs should be for human beings first and computers second.

An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing the ups and downs of his experience as one of the lead robot operators at the crippled facility.

Aeryon Labs, a Canadian defense firm, revealed on Tuesday that it had quietly provided the rebel forces with a teeny, tiny surveillance drone, called the Aeryon Scout. Small enough to fit into a backpack, the 3-pound, four-rotor robot gave Libyan forces eyes in the sky independent of the Predators, Fire Scout surveillance copters and manned spy planes that NATO flew overhead. Don’t worry, it’s not armed.

I personally think robot fetishism may stem from a desire for control and passivity in one’s partners.

a face tracking 2-axis robot head controlled by Python and open source modules.