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In Pictures: Robots that cook, clean, sing and dance

Cooking, learning language and doing the laundry are a few of the human skills demonstrated by.real humanoid bots featured in the National Geographic movie Robots.
In Pictures: Inside Telstra's new hi-tech Customer Insights Centre

Telstra has opened its Customer Insights Centre (CIC) in Sydney, giving enterprise and business customers access to a world class technology precinct, purpose-built to foster innovation and partnerships. Spanning 3600sqm over the entire second level of Telstra’s 400 George Street office in Sydney’s CBD, it houses a 300-person auditorium, workshop and collaboration spaces, partner pop-up installations, a restaurant, and many hands-on technology demonstration areas featuring state of the art business solutions.
In Pictures: Get your resume past the robots - How to beat HR's mechanical gatekeepers

You have two options when it comes to beating the automated systems that filter resumes: you can go through them, or you can go around them.
In pictures: National Instruments Autonomous Robotics winners

University of NSW team Lab 202 was awarded first place in the fourth annual National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition (NI ARC) final in Sydney. During the grand finale, team robots had to wirelessly communicate within their environment, collect seeds, navigate to a farming area littered with obstacles, deposit the seeds in planting areas and move back to the home zone.

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Meet the Aussie robot squad heading underground in DARPA challenge

A squad of five Australian robots is heading to the US next week to compete in an underground mapping and rescue challenge set by DARPA. Computerworld meets them.
Call for bigger, better social robot therapy trials

Researchers from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision are calling for large-scale, major trials of social robots in health and wellbeing settings, after an analysis of current experiments found them to be limited and few in number.
Australian robotics team heads to abandoned Colorado gold mine for DARPA challenge

A team of researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 and their robots are heading to an abandoned gold mine in the Colorado mountains this weekend, to take part in an exercise run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
How 2400 sensors and machine learning models keep Sydney Harbour Bridge spanning the decades

The crew that maintains the Sydney Harbour Bridge speaks about the 52,800 tonne steel structure with deep affection.
What lies beneath: CSIRO robots rise to DARPA’s subterranean challenge

Dark and disorientating, prone to rockfalls and flooding, and often filled with toxic gases: caves are not a safe place for humans. So why not send robots instead?

Features about robots

The 10 best hacks of 2010 (so far)

In honor of Towel Day, and the Glorious 25th of May, here are ten of our most favorite hacks featured in Geek Tech in the last five months, running the gambit from phone, car, and CPU mods. Read on for some great moments in geek!
How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?

It seems like a question ripped from the back of a cheap sci-fi novel: What happens when the robots are turned against us?
Robots improve safety, efficiency at Thai hospital

A Thai hospital famous for medical tourism and celebrated for its use of new technologies is turning to robotics to become more efficient and improve patient safety.

Dell PowerEdge VRTX Networking Deployment Guide: for Microsoft Lync and Dell Mobility

This deployment guide outlines the steps of connecting the VRTX to a small business network including integration options for Dell W-Series WLAN Mobility controller. Dell PowerEdge VRTX is designed to empower Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) and Small and Medium Business (SMB) with the connectivity, along with its optimised storage and compute power to deliver an end-to-end solution optimised for providing for time sensitive applications like Microsoft Lync.