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[Ideal Gadget] Toshiba Sidekick Robots: Toshiba Sidekick Robots May 27th, 2005 | Related entries: RobotsJapanese electronics giant Toshiba unveiled robots to help out the elderly and children from the home to the shopping mall by following them and responding to their voices.

[Digital LifeStyle News Feed] Digital LifeStyle 14/05/05: With details flying around about the Xbox 360, and rumors still about Nintendo's and Sony's new consoles, Cnet reports game developers are becoming more worried game publishers will want to continue pushing gaming into the mainstream, adding to the large budgets, increasing team sizes making games and decreasing the amount of new original content.

[Bigblog.com] Search: Toshiba prepares robots escape from Toyland @ Big Blog: A Buckinghamshire company whose intelligent robots can assist surgeons during complex operations has raised £1,025,000 with the help of Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network (OION), Europe's leading technology business angel network, and investment from Hoegh Capital and Octopus Asset Management. Armstrong Healthcare Ltd, a world-leading producer of image-guided surgical robots, will use the funds to support the development of its three main products through clinical trials to launch as revenue generating products.

[Bigblog.com] Search: Toshiba demonstrates prototype interactive robots @ Big Blog: A Buckinghamshire company whose intelligent robots can assist surgeons during complex operations has raised £1,025,000 with the help of Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network (OION), Europe's leading technology business angel network, and investment from Hoegh Capital and Octopus Asset Management. Armstrong Healthcare Ltd, a world-leading producer of image-guided surgical robots, will use the funds to support the development of its three main products through clinical trials to launch as revenue generating products.

[Bigblog.com] Search: Toshiba welcomes ApriAttenda to robot family @ Big Blog: If iRobot has its way, millions of people around the world will soon be retiring their mops and buckets. The Cambridge, Massachusetts–based company is finally announcing the follow-up to its remarkably popular Roomba robot rug and floor vacuum: the Scooba robot floor-cleaning system. It's the first household robot designed to sweep, scrub, mop, and dry tile, linoleum, and wood floors. The company is also touting a major partnership coup: The Scooba's cleaning fluid will come from Clorox Co., which makes household cleaning products.

[Bigblog.com] Search: Toshiba unveils go with you robot sidekick @ Big Blog: TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba unveiled robots to help out the elderly and children from the home to the shopping mall by following them and responding to their voices.

[Robots.engadget.com] Japanese broker bots: millionaire machines - Robots - robots ...: While one part of us hopes that these stock buying and selling robots don’t completely outdue their human counterparts, replacing all of Wall Street with teenage programmers might be kind of therapeutic. Japanese computer programmers have been invited to create virtual robots to compete in KabuRobo Programming Contest, a stock investment returns contest put on by Waseda University, Nomura Research Institute and IBM Japan. Contestants will program their virtual robots to buy and sell orders for 40 stocks out of the 225 leading stocks in the Nikkei in response to market events or whatever factors they choose. Once the contest starts the contestants have to refrain from giving their robots any input and have to just let the bot broker on its own. 

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