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First Robot with a human brain! »

Definitely falls into the nearly too weird to be believable category. Checkout this new research where they have given a robot a human brain in order to study how it learns and remembers.  http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR16530.aspx

Robo Blob, oozing to a military contractor near you »

CNet news has a story about a shape shifting blob they are calling a chembot (I was thinking slimebot).  This thing is apparently a Darpa contract to iRobot.   Wonder if this thing sticks to carpet.  Wonder if it can outrun the roomba!    Go here for the whole story. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html