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Entrepreneurs are exploiting the Greek economic crisis to market their wares. Soon after the launching of Grexit vodka on June 30, comes a new product – a tower defense game during the defense era but using steam-powered machines and robots as well. The game requires young “recruits” to digitally defend Greece against hordes of enemies trying to take over the country.

?One day, artificial intelligence will look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa: Upright apes, ready for extinction.?

If you watched ?Ex Machina,? which was screened in the middle of the year, you must have registered this sentence.

If you have forgotten it, please note it somewhere.

The Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN) organizes this weekend Romania's highest profile mega sumo robot contest with the theme: implementation of self-controlled sumo robots capable of identifying and removing from the ring surface the opponent robot in one-on-one competitions.

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Three young inventors were received with much applause by the public at the opening ceremony of CEEDS'15 by Webit, the biggest IT event in Eastern Europe.

Romania, represented by the team of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest - Harder - Better - Faster - Stronger - ranked third among the nations that participated in the RobotChallenge competition held in Vienna, after collecting two golden medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal.

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Forget the frightening androids of dystopian sci-fi, the future of robots is cute polar bears that can lift elderly people into and out of bed.
      
The "Robear" has a cub-like face with big doey eyes, but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath, Japan's Riken institute said Tuesday.
      

An inventor in an eastern Turkish village has managed to patent a robot that he designed to keep bears away from farms and gardens.

“My hand-made robot shocks bears or boars with 25,000 volts of electricity when it senses they are approaching,” 46-year-old Mustafa Karasungur told Doğan News Agency on Aug. 10 in his hometown, the village of Gölbaşı in Erzurum province.

A cooing, gesturing humanoid on wheels that can decipher emotions has been unveiled in Japan by billionaire Masayoshi Son who says robots should be tender and make people smile.