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Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

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Robot Operating Systems
Saenz, Aaron. 2010. Robot Operating System Celebrates 3rd Birthday with Exponential Growth (video). November 8. singularityhub.com.

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

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Select Books
Arkin, Ronald. 2009. Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots. ("My research hypothesis is that intelligent robots can behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans currently can. That’s the case I make." —Dr. Arkin, quoted in The New York Times, November 24, 2008). Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Lin, Patrick. 2011. Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

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Select Humor
Kelly, Kevin. 2011. The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement. The Technium.

Robots Speak Out Against Asimov’s First Law Of Robotics. The Onion.

Select Idea Competitions / Conversations
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.

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Select Photos
Manaugh, Geoff. 2011. TIME, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SPATIAL DEVICES. April 16. Los Angeles, CA: bldgblog.blogspot.com.

Select References
Ackerman, Evan. 2011. This Begging Robot Can Have All My Money. April 22. spectrum.ieee.org

Bernstein, Ian. 2006. Beam-online - Robots - The Bug. beam-online.com

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

Calo, Ryan. 2011. Apps for Robots. January 23. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Law.

Calo, Ryan. 2011. NEVADA BILL WOULD PAVE THE ROAD TO AUTONOMOUS CARS. April 28. Palo Alto, CA: blogs.law.stanford.edu

Calo, Ryan. 2010. Open Robotics. November 11. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Law.

Calo, Ryan. 2011. Open Robotics. July 1. Ithaca, NY: blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop.

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.

Chu, Jennifer. 2012. Mechanical engineers develop an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars: Semiautonomous system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe. July 13. Cambridge, MA: web.mit.edu

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, Kasia. 2012. The World's Cutest Surveillance Robot Videographer. January 13. The Atlantic.

CmdrTaco. 2011. Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language. May 18. hardware.slashdot.org

Coxworth, Ben. 2011. Quadruped CHEETAH robot to outrun any human. March 3. gizmag.com

Creating a Better Chatbot Through Crowdsourcing. 2012. Creating a Better Chatbot Through Crowdsourcing. September 10. slashdot.org.

Dean, Cornelia. 2008. A Soldier, Taking Orders From Its Ethical Judgment Center. November 24. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. Controlling LEGO WeDo robots via Scratch on an XO laptop. July 18. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

dougled. 2012. Machine-Guided Learning Matches Teachers In Study. May 23. news.slashdot.org

Emspak, Jesse. 2011 Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game. April 20. ibtimes.com

Fox, Zoe. 2011. Robot Plays Angry Birds. October 23. New York, NY: Mashable.com

garymortimer. 2011. Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect. July 02. hardware.slashdot.org.

Guizzo, Erico. 2011. Elfoid: A Pocket-Size Fetus-Like Robot Might Be Your Next Cellphone. March 3. spectrum.ieee.org.

Guizzo, Erico. 2011. Obama Commanding Robot Revolution, Announces Major Robotics Initiative. June 24. spectrum.ieee.org.

Harada, Cesar. 2011. Protei, Open Hardware Oil Spill Cleaning Sailing Robot. April. New Orleans, LA: kickstarter.com

itwbennett. 2012. Fujitsu Building Robot To Pass Math Exams. September 10. hardware.slashdot.org

itwbennett. 2011. This Robot Needs a Hug. May 14. hardware.slashdot.org.

kodiaktau. 2011. Experimenting With Robotic Movement. December 27. hardware.slashdot.org.

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

Lin, Patrick. 2011. Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA. Dec 15. The Atlantic.

Manaugh, Geoff. 2011. THE HOUSE OF MECHANICAL ANIMALS. July 19. Los Angeles, CA: bldgblog.

Manaugh, Geoff. 2011. THE ROBOT AND THE ARCHITECT ARE FRIENDS. March 6. Los Angeles, CA: bldgblog.

Manjoo, Farhad. 2011. [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011/09/will_robots_steal_your_job.html Will Robots Steal Your Job? You're highly educated. You make a lot of money. You should still be afraid]. September 26. Washington DC: Slate.

mictvstation. 2011. Chinese Robots Play Ping Pong. YouTube.com.

mikejuk. 2011. Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Nao Robot Control Software. May 15. hardware.slashdot.org.

mikejuk. 2012. Professor Resigns From Stanford To Launch Online Education Project. January 23. hardware.slashdot.org.

Miller, Claire Cain, and Nick Bilton. 2011. Google’s Lab of Wildest Dreams. November 13. New York, NY: The New York Times.

MrSeb. 2011. Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power. October 25. hardware.slashdot.org.

TheAmaze. 2012. Evolution Of Dance by NAO Robot. youtube.com

Quick, Darren. 2011. Insect-inspired HECTOR walking robot. April 18. www.gizmag.com

RedEaredSlider. 2011. Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls. November 03. hardware.slashdot.org.

Revkin, Andrew C. 2011. From ‘Wall-E’ to Fukushima, Robots Roam. April 17. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch. 2011. Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch. (with video). October 17. Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence.

The Robot Swarm. 2012. The Robot Swarm. Cambridge, MA: Digital Access to Schlolarship at Harvard.

samzenpus. 2011. Robots 'Evolve' Altruism. May 04. science.slashdot.org

samzenpus. 2011. Wall-E Robot Made With LEGO Mindstorms. July 19. idle.slashdot.org.

Schroeder, Stan. 2011. Honda’s ASIMO Robot Gets Smarter, More Autonomous. November 08. mashable.com

Schwellenbach, Ashley. 2012. Speaking hypothetically: The future is here, and San Luis Obispo has a lot more to do with that fact than you might think. ("“I’m not advocating any of these scenarios,” Patrick Lin prefaces before rapidly painting a world in which robots guard our criminals and monitor prisoners’ vital signs while they are tortured, cyborg insects and robots the size of hummingbirds spy on civilians, and enhanced soldiers wage war for days, immune to hunger and sleep deprivation"). January 4. The Times.

sciencehabit. 2011. Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight. October 18. science.slashdot.org.

SJ. 2011. butiábot: XO Linerider robot in action. May 7. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Soulskill. 2011. Motorola Adopting 3 Laws of Robotics For Android?. February 14. mobile.slashdot.org

Soulskill. 2012. Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics. June 23. tech.slashdot.org

Takahashi, Nobuhiro. 2011. Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet. May 3. idle.slashdot.org.

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

thebchuckster. 2011. Japanese Military Invents Tumbling, Flying Sphere. July 16. hardware.slashdot.org.

Thompson, Derek. 2011. Who Is Safe From the Robot Revolution?. March 7. The Atlantic.

Three Laws of Robotics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

timothy. 2011. Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers?. December 18. ask.slashdot.org.

timothy. 2011. German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls. April 30. hardware.slashdot.org.

timothy. 2011. Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h. October 22. hardware.slashdot.org.

timothy. 2011. Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier. April 30. tech.slashdot.org

toygeek. 2012. Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them. August 30. hardware.slashdot.org

Trout, Christopher. 2011. RoboEarth teaches robots to learn from peers, pour European fruit beverages (video). February 2. engadget.com

Ulanoff, Lance. 2011. “World’s First Spherical Flying Machine” Can Land and Fly Almost Anywhere. October 26. mashable.com.

Uruguayan Pupils Using Butiá Robots at the sumo.uy 2011 Event. 2011. Uruguayan Pupils Using Butiá Robots at the sumo.uy 2011 Event. olpcnews.com

wasimkadak. 2012. Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time. June 27. hardware.slashdot.org

White, Charlie. 2011. Gang of Smart Mini-Copters Learns How to Build Stuff - VIDEO. January 16. Mashable.

White, Charlie. 2011. [http://mashable.com/2011/03/04/lifelike-robot/ Is This a Robot or Human? VIDEO]. March 4. (Geminoid) Mashable.

White, Charlie. 2011. Robots Gone Wild: The Most Elaborate Action Sequence Ever Filmed (VIDEO). January 28. Mashable.

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
Bilton, Nick. 2011. Your Very Own Cookie-Baking Robot. August 3. New York, NY: bits.blogs.nytimes.com.

Breazeal, Cynthia. 2011. Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots. TED Talk.

Calo, Ryan. 2011. Ethics@Noon: Robots & Privacy. March 11. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Law School.

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

Fischer, Markus. 2011. A robot that flies like a bird. Monterey, CA: Ted Talk.

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

Knight, Heather. 2011. Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy. TED Talk.

Mashable Video. 2011. Smarter, Better, Faster: Alderbaran Releases NAO Next Gen Humanoid Robot - VIDEO. December 12. Mashable.com.

O'Dell, Jolie. 2011. Intel Shows Us the Digital Future of Lego. January 11. mashable.com

Pachal, Peter. 2012. Watch the Robot-Bashing Short Movie Jim Henson Made for AT&T in 1963 - VIDEO. January 24. mashable.com

Robot Violinist. 2007. Robot Violinist. Youtube.com

Saenz, Aaron. 2010. Land Crawler eXtreme is the Freakiest Riding Robot We’ve Seen (video). November 22. singularityhub.com

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

Schroeder, Stan. 2011. Finally, a Robot That Can Make You a Sandwich - VIDEO. December 13. mashable.com.

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

Wu, Steve. 2011. Panel Discussion at Association of Defense Counsel (ADC) – DEC 9, 2010. February 19. Stanford, CA: Stanford Law School.

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.

Lego British Bird Series. 2012. Lego British Bird Series. UK: lego.cuusoo.com

LinuxOnEveryDesktop. 2012. Make Your Own LEGO Curiosity Rover. August 12. science.slashdot.org/

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