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	<title>Crikey &#187; robots</title>
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		<title>The frightening automation of Planet Manchester</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/rundle-the-frightening-automation-of-planet-manchester/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/rundle-the-frightening-automation-of-planet-manchester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 02:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have always known that -- we, who think about such things, anyway -- but the implicit assumption has always been that automation would come to industry first.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rise of the machines: cinema&#8217;s best robot betrayals</title>
		<link>http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/top10/top-ten-robot-betrayals-in-movies20101019.aspx</link>
		<comments>http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/top10/top-ten-robot-betrayals-in-movies20101019.aspx#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blade Runner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years the cinema has presented a plethora of back-stabbing robots - from the Replicants in <em>Blade Runner</em> to Hal in <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>. <em>The Vine</em> lists ten of the best.]]></description>
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		<title>Could journalists be replaced by robots?</title>
		<link>http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/18/robot-journalist-takes-pictures-ask-questions-publishes-online/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SingularityHub+%28Singularity+Hub%29</link>
		<comments>http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/18/robot-journalist-takes-pictures-ask-questions-publishes-online/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SingularityHub+%28Singularity+Hub%29#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of journalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn: researchers in Japan have created a "journalist robot", which detects when interesting things are going down, takes photos, asks questions, and uploads it all to the web. Looks like we're stuffed.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the age of the killer robot</title>
		<link>http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-age-of-the-killer-robot-is-no-longer-a-scifi-fantasy-1875220.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-age-of-the-killer-robot-is-no-longer-a-scifi-fantasy-1875220.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drone planes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[warfare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It sounds like a sci-fi film, but it's the reality of war in the 21st century: the West is now fighting its wars with a rapidly expanding army of killer robots. Is this really the future we want to engineer for our world?]]></description>
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		<title>AOL to replace human editors with robots</title>
		<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-reveals-its-master-plan-robot-editors-2009-11</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-reveals-its-master-plan-robot-editors-2009-11#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AOL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AOL -- owner of big-name websites like <a href="http://www.tmz.com">TMZ</a>, <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com">Politics Daily</a> and <a href="http://www.popeater.com">Popeater</a> -- is creating an algorithm to automatically assign stories and pay rates to freelancers, based on web searchers and stats.]]></description>
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		<title>Machines will be smarter than humans within 10 years</title>
		<link>http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/a-singular-something-in-sixty-years.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/a-singular-something-in-sixty-years.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Singularity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=86806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence by 2020, according to one expert. Is the human race engineering our own demise? Is civilisation nearing <a href="http://www.techsectorweb.com/2009/09/timing-the-singularity.html">the Singularity</a>? All hail our new robot overlords.]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s first kissing robots</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/the-worlds-first-kissing-robots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/the-worlds-first-kissing-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=82050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cute AND creepy: robots Thomas and Janet are the stars of a Taiwanese robot production of Phantom of the Opera developed by the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.]]></description>
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		<title>What is it with the Japanese and robots?</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1913913,00.html?iid=digg_share</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1913913,00.html?iid=digg_share#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=78532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems every few years, Japanese engineers roll out a headline-grabbing new robot, yet the robotics industry is yet to really take off. Are they just playing out Astro Boy-fueled fantasies, or is Japan getting a foothold in the next big tech market?]]></description>
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		<title>When robots attack</title>
		<link>http://www.thelocal.se/19120.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thelocal.se/19120.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stupidity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=76564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Swedish factory has been fined after a worker was attacked by one of its manufacturing robots which "suddenly came to life" and grabbed hold of his head.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama in the uncanny valley: the perils of presidential sculpture</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/obama-in-the-uncanny-valley-the-perils-of-presidential-sculpture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/obama-in-the-uncanny-valley-the-perils-of-presidential-sculpture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Campbell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wax figures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/obama-in-the-uncanny-valley-the-perils-of-presidential-sculpture/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Mel Campbell</b> takes a terrifying tour through the world of Obama-themed mannequins and robots.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIDEO: Japanese robot chefs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/video-japanese-robot-chefs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/video-japanese-robot-chefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=74788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robots can now prepare sushi, flip burgers and slice vegies. Humans are officially obsolete. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wall-E in real life</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/italy/090616/robot-trash-collector</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/italy/090616/robot-trash-collector#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rubbish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rubbish collection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=73032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Italian town obsessed with garbage is the testing ground for DustCart, a prototype robot that seems to have escaped from the animated movie “Wall-E” and could revolutionise rubbish collection.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIDEO: Underwater robot wars</title>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8143801.stm</link>
		<comments>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8143801.stm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=72968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's better than robot wars? <em>Underwater</em> robot wars.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Things that terrified me when I was a child&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/07/first-dog-on-the-moon-351/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/07/first-dog-on-the-moon-351/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood fears]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foxes!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Disney unveils creepy Robot Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/walt-disney-world-unveils-incredibly-poor-robotic-version-of-pr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/walt-disney-world-unveils-incredibly-poor-robotic-version-of-pr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=71495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Walt Disney World has added an animatronic Barack Obama to its Hall of Presidents attraction, and it's quite disturbing. Duff beer for me, Duff beer for you...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Driving in space</title>
		<link>http://dsc.discovery.com/space/im/mars-rover-driver-ashley-stroupe.html</link>
		<comments>http://dsc.discovery.com/space/im/mars-rover-driver-ashley-stroupe.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Dr Ashley Stroupe, NASA's lead robot driver for the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Apparently, he's grown pretty attached to Spirit and does "a lot of the long-term planning for her".]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution-detecting robot fish released</title>
		<link>http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=101201&#038;feedType=VideoRSS&#038;feedName=Environment&#038;videoChannel=74</link>
		<comments>http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=101201&#038;feedType=VideoRSS&#038;feedName=Environment&#038;videoChannel=74#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marine conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A school of pollution-detecting robotic fish are set to be released off the northern Spanish port of Gijon in a trial next year.]]></description>
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