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Pint-sized robot takes giant strides
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| "We have already built around 20 of them,"
| Professor Caldwell said. "So there are 20
| projects connected with iCub currently
| under way, each of them with around five
| people. People are starting to do useful
| things with the robots and everyone has a
| different interest in what they want the
| robot to do. Because itâs all open source,
| and we exchange our programs, the number of
| lines of code is rising extremely quickly.
| And the code is always made available for
| download.
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7054147.ece
The rise of open source: Thoughts on TEDxNYED
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| The first article mentioning the phrase âopen
| source journalismâ was apparently published
| in Salon magazine in 1999, describing an
| experiment that had been run by Janeâs
| Intelligence Review, a U.K. military journal.
| The journal asked readers of Slashdot to
| provide feedback on an article about cyber-
| terrorism, and they responded so
| enthusiastically â âslicing and dicingâ the
| story âinto tiny little pieces,â Salon had it
| â that âthe editor, Johan J Ingles-le Nobel,
| declared that he would write a new article
| incorporating the Slashdot comments, and
| would compensate Slashdot participants whose
| words made it into the final copy.â
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http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/03/the-rise-of-open-source-thoughts-on-tedxnyed/
Recent:
Android Phone Grows Up, Becomes Brain for Real Robot
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| The bot they recently finished building â
| Truckbot â is still relatively simple. Itâs
| got an HTC G1 phone for a brain, riding on
| top of a chassis with some wheels and
| treads. All it can do is roll around on a
| tabletop, turn and head off in a specified
| direction. When I visit the workshop where
| theyâre building it, Heath and Hickman show
| how it can use the phoneâs compass to make
| itself point to the south. But the duo have
| much more ambitious plans in mind.
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/android-robot/
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