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...intervention, only artificial intelligence behind the wheel. But instead of hiring a bunch of fancy nerds and sticking them in an undisclosed location until they came up with a robo-car, DARPA held an open-invitation unmanned-car rally. Come on down, bring the kids, and may the fastest bot win. Grand prize: $2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building the Best Driverless Robot Car | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...among the hardest working members of federal Parliament. And he's never met a TV camera or radio microphone he couldn't love. Clever? Let Rudd set you straight, on any topic from Asia to Zion. That he was not a creature of Labor's factions or a pol-bot molded by the unions, did not in the end harm the 49-year-old Queenslander in a below-the-radar quest to lead his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Picks a New Leader | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...that's not so easy as it sounds. Lego still uses the word-free pictorial-instruction system I grew up with, yet its world has become a lot more complicated. I rushed right in, of course, quickly throwing together a basic three-wheel bot. So far, so good. But when I loaded the software and started adding sensors and claws, things got dicey. And when I started programming, things got downright horrific. After several hours of frustration, I began to discover the rudiments of how to use virtual blocks of instruction to get the robot to move, respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Lego Gets a New Brain | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...Shuttleboy after his graduation, helped Delvecchio and Karamchandani to create ShuttleGirl. Malan put his CS50 skills into practice again to create Shuttleboybot. “A friend of mine and one of CS50’s head TFs, Kelly Heffner, introduced me last week to CS50’s bot on AIM (screen name cs50bot),” Malan said. “It struck me as such a neat way to retrieve information quickly that I decided to make Shuttleboy accessible via AIM as well.” Since its creation late last week, shuttleboybot has been hailed...

Author: By Sadia Ahsanuddin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Your Newest Buddy: Shuttleboybot | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...wine's bouquet. Pour the wine into the Dream Taste glass pitcher and insert a bunch of white plastic grapes, included in the kit. The faux fruit acts as a filter, absorbing the TCA in about an hour. Then pour a fresh glass, sit back and enjoy. Next Product: Bot Crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Tasteful Ideas | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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