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Select Bibliographies
Robotics' Textbooks - The MIT Press. 2010. Browse Robotics' Textbooks - The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Select Competitions
Zero Robotics. 2010. Zero Robotics. (Zero Robotics is a student competition that takes "arena robotics" to new heights, literally. The robots are miniature satellites called SPHERES, and the final tournament is aboard the International Space Station!). Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Select Libraries
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Select References
Blackman, Christine. 2010. Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb. August 24. Stanford, CA: Stanford University News.

Carey, Benedict and John Markoff. 2010. Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Ceurstemont, Sandrine. 2010. Life-drawing robot could teach us about art. April 1. New Scientist.

Lanier, Jaron. 2010. The First Church of Robotics. (Op-Ed). August 9. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Saenz, Aaron. 2010. Videos of Robot Controlled By Rat Brain – Amazing Technology Still Moving Forward. October 6. singularityhub.com

Technabob. 2010. robots ready to take over your home. September 2. Chicago, IL: technabob.com

Williams, Mary-Anne. 2010. What’s it like to be a robot?. September 5. Stanford, CA: blogs.law.stanford.edu

Select Robotics' Hardware
Mindstorms NXT. 2010. Lego Mindsorms NXT. (Lego Mindstorms is a line of programmable robotics/construction toys, manufactured by the Lego Group. it comes in a kit containing many pieces including sensors and cables).

Select Textbooks
Siegwart, Roland and Illah R. Nourbakhsh. 2004. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Select Video and Audio
Calo, Ryan. 2010. Robots: The Law -  mp3. Stanford, CA: www.robotspodcast.com/podcast

Elliott, Amy-Mae. 2010. Top 10 Robot Videos on YouTube. May 16. Mashable.com

Jansen, Theo. 2007. Theo Jansen creates new creatures. Monterey, CA: TED Talks.

Robot Violinist. 2007. Robot Violinist. Youtube.com

Toyota's Violinist Robot in China "New 2010". 2010. Toyota's Violinist Robot in China "New 2010". youtube.com

Lego

Ganapati, Priya. 2010. Machine Made of Lego Builds Anything You Want — Out of Lego. October 20. wired.com/gadgetlab

Jennings, Mike. 2010. The genius of the Lego Printer: video. June 2nd. UK: pcpro.co.uk.

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