It’s common these days to gripe about the NHS. If you’re not getting MRSA you’re being ignored by the staff. It’s badly funded, under staffed and generally falling on it’s knees is the apparent overview. Now, I have no gripes against the NHS personally, but you hear the stories and can’t help but wonder what [...]

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It’s Friday night, and you have just finished what seemed the worlds longest week at work. All you can think of now is that frosty beer waiting for you at your favourite, or closest, watering hole. You get to the bar only to discover the world and their wife are already there waving their notes at an overworked, underpaid barman.

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From Japanese food machinery maker Baba Tekkosho Co comes another glimpse into the future with their creation of this new bionic arm. It was unveiled on Tuesday at The International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.

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Ok, so I know I went robot hunting last week, but allow me this one overlap. Because this is a robotic fish which is currently in development, in the UK, and could actually help save the environment while looking incredibly cool all at the same time. BMT Group Ltd have joined forces with a team [...]

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 We have the technology, we can rebuild him….  Ok so that was the Million Dollar Man, but I can’t think of any Robocop quotes right now. Actually the only ones I can think of are ‘You’re dead! We killed you!’ and ‘Dead or Alive you’re coming with me’. But they’re not really appropriate when I’m [...]

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The picture on the right looks like the latest evolution of the robot toys that have been popular for the last few Christmas’ right? Except this one actually looks as sleek as we’re led to believe by Will Smith in ‘I Robot’ (is that movie title satirically based on the iPod by the way?). Once [...]

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Replacing things with robots is a common theme of sci fi movies. R2D2 and co are now so much a part of our vision of the future that when robots really do come along, we’ll probably not even realise it. Of course, once the robot revolution then starts it’ll be too late and we’ll all [...]

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It was late in the day when we came to the I Want One Of Those (IWOOT) stalls but boy oh boy, did we come across a little treat! Officially described as a mechanical, expandable, remote control robot; we only got to have a quick play with the RC wonder-bot but we were definitely impressed. [...]

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