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FaceVsion TouchCam N1 HD Video Streaming Webcam

FV touchcam N1 is the first Internet streaming true HD webcam for Skype video calls.

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Peter vs. Robot

CBC’s Peter Armstrong tries to interview a robot on CBC Radio’s As It Happens. Hilarity ensues.

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Science: Interview With a Robot

National correspondent Amy Harmon sits down to talk with the Bina48 about what it’s like to be a robot. Related Link: nyti.ms

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Terrafugia Transition Flying Car plus lots more – 23Mr9

www.fullflap.tv – Every week. In this weeks show 23rd Mar 09 The Terrafugia Flying Car works but what’s it like to fly Why you shouldn’t try to fly with a Swedish porn actress on your aircraft And who created the first Air Force

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Special Report Flying Car first flight Terrafugia Transition R

www.fullflap.tv They’ve done it. The guys at Terrafugia have got their car to fly. In fact by the sounds of it it flies very well.

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Terrafugia Transition First Flight Raw Video

March 5, 2009, Terrafugia’s roadable aircraft, the Transition, takes flight.

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Aero-TV: The Terrafugia Transition – The Most Anticipated Flying Car

CEO Carl Dietrich Provides Exciting Updates on the Flying Car At EAA Airventure 2008, a group of award-winning MIT Aeronautical Engineers set the aviation industry ablaze with the introduction of their proof of concept flying car. The two-seat aircraft, designed to transform from a plane to a car in less than 30 seconds, allows a pilot to easily fold and stow wings for road use with quick wing-deployment for flight all from the comfort of the cockpit. Able to cruise up to 450 miles at over 115mph in air, as well as drive at highway speeds on any road surface, the Terrafugia Transition, as stated by the company, aims to provide increased flexibility by exploring innovative new frontiers for personal mobility.

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First flight of Terrafugia Transition Flying car – Update

www.fullflap.tv We don’t often do this but we just had to pass on the good news. The guys at Terrafugia have done it. They have got their flying car into the air! We’ll have more pictures and info in next mondays show at the usual place http A big thumbs up to the guys at www.terrafugia.com

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First flight of Terrafugia Transition Flying car – Special Update

www.fullflap.tv We don’t often do this but we just had to pass on the good news. The guys at Terrafugia have done it. They have got their flying car into the air! We’ll have more pictures and info in next mondays show at the usual place http A big thumbs up to the guys at www.terrafugia.com

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The Terrafugia Transition Flying Car Animation

An animation created for the Terrafugia Transition, which is a flying car currently in the works.

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Terrafugia – Flying Car

Woburn, MA June 3, 2009: Terrafugia, Inc. has successfully completed the flight testing program designed for its Transition Roadable Aircraft Proof of Concept. Having been dubbed The Flying Car, the Transition completed its historic first flight on March 5, 2009 with 27 additional flights completed over the next several weeks.

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First flight Terrafugia Transition Flying Car plus lots more FullFlap.TV 23rd Mar 09

www.fullflap.tv Every week. In this weeks show 23rd Mar 09 The Terrafugia Flying Car works but whats it like to fly Why you shouldnt try to fly with a Swedish porn actress on your aircraft And who created the first Air Force. America, Russia

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Terrafugia Flying Car Makes Historic First Flight

The first flight of the Terrafugia Transition in Plattsburgh, NY.

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Terrafugia Flying Car Update, AirVenture Oskhosh 2008

Terrafugia answers realistic questions about their roadable aircraft, the Terrafugia Transition, concept vehicle. Video by Glenn Pew www.glennpew.com for AVweb.com http with interviewer Russ Niles.

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The Terrafugia Flying Car

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree speaks with Dr. Carl Dietrich, co-founder Terrafugia, creators of the Transition flying car (or ‘roadable aircraft’) at the 2009 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance. This episode was created in collaboration with Intel! www.intel.com http en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org web.mit.edu www.greenwichconcours.com www.rocketboom.com

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First Flight of the Terrafugia Transition – Camera B

A video of the first flight of the Terrafugia Transition. First flight occurred on March 5th, 2009 at Plattsburgh International Airport in Plattsburgh, NY. The Transition is a roadable aircraft, or a street-legal airplane.

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The Terrafugia Transition

The Transition by Terrafugia is a roadable aircraft, an airplane that can take off and land from any airport, and with the push of a button fold up its wings and drive down the road. For more information about this innovative product, please go to terrafugia.com

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Terrafugia Transition – First Flight Video Press Release

A Video News Release of the first flight of the Terrafugia Transition.

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First Flight: “Flying Car” Terrafugia Transition Roadable Aircraft

Not a flying car, but a roadable aircraft, the Terrafugia Transition took flight for the first time March 5, 2009. Visit www.avweb.com and search for “Terrafugia” for more. Video by Glenn Pew http

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ABB Robotics – Picking pancakes

ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene. William Eid a director of Honeytop comments “This is our first investment in robotics technology and we have not experienced a single issue sincethe installation 6 months ago”

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Robot Chef

Robot chefs take center stage at Japan’s Food Machinery and Technology Expo 2009.

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Modular Snake Robot Pipes

www.modsnake.com This is a demonstration of how the snake can inspect weld joints.

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High Speed Robotic Hands

Read more at www.k2.tu-tokyo.ac.jp and www.botjunkie.com

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iRobot’s Soft Morphing Blob ‘Bot Takes Its First Steps

iRobot’s soft, shape-shifting robot blob can roll around and change shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. Read more robot news at spectrum.ieee.org

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Robotics Soft-Tissue Injury Study

Video part of the report “Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics,” by Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schaffer, and Gerd Hirzinger at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR – German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany.

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ABB Robotics – 10 good reasons to invest in robots

Robots have been proven to deliver a host of benefits in a wide variety of applications. Manufacturers introducing robots to their production processes have typically seen a significant transformation in their productivity and efficiency. The International Federation of Robotics recently undertook a survey that identified the top 10 reasons that manufacturers invest in robots

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Modular Snake Robots

Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot. These highly articulated devices can coordinate their internal degrees of freedom to perform a variety of locomotive gaits that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and legged robots.

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