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Iowa’s Waukee robotics team qualifies for global robotics championship

Waukee Robotics Team Advances to World Stage This spring, students from Waukee, Iowa, achieved a milestone that has echoed across ...
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Iowa hospital uses robots that emit UV light to clean rooms

Environmental Services team at Dubuque hospital with R2D2, the cleaning robot. (Photo courtesy of Finley Hospital) Three robots are at work in a northeast Iowa hospital, making the final sweep to make ...
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A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...
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Iowa State engineer develops power-saving tools to keep solar-powered robots in action

AMES, Iowa – The small robots in Ran Dai’s basement lab at Iowa State University look like fancy electronic toys. But they’re really very smart. And they’re getting smarter. Dai, an Iowa State ...
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Scientists study how people would react to a neurotic robot personality in real life

In science fiction, robots can be neurotic. Think "Star Wars" and C-3PO. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE") ANTHONY DANIELS: (As C-3PO) What are we going to do? We'll be sent to ...