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- (1) roBOT A program used on the Internet that performs a repetitive function such as posting a message to multiple newsgroups or searching for information or news. Bots...
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- Urban Hopper bot leaps over 25-foot fence
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is showing off its Precision Urban Hopper robot, a wheeled ground unit being developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Boston Dynamics for surveillance operations in urban terrain. The shoebox-size rolling robot can leap over 25-foot-tall obstacles and keep going.
- Videos 2009-09-17
- 'Partner' bots: The next killer robotics app? (And will Microsoft bite?)
- Microsoft's Mr. Robotics, Tandy Trower, has moved into more of an "ambassadorial"/strategic planning role, as of late. But that hasn't stopped him from thinking about what could become the "killer app" in the robotics space. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA's
- Preventing bots from filling out forms automatically is a hard task. Researchers at Google have been thinking about more effective ways of achieving this goal. You have no doubt seen those jumbled up words that you have to decipher before you can submit a form -- well, that's...
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
- Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of innocent Internet-attached systems and, in the process, acquiring the owners of those systems as unwitting Although they are...
- White papers 2009-04-16
- iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company
- Even as iRobot won a wide-open contract with the Army, the company's part-time CTO, Rodney Brooks, left the company to start a new robotics firm, Cambridge-based Heartland Robotics. The new company is focused on industrial robotics, which logic would dictate would put...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Tackle Capture the Flag 1.0 (Windows)
- Play a real time strategy sports game, fully three-dimensional, multiplayer compatible. Control numerous bots robots in a game of Tackle Capture the Flag. Play against computer controlled and/or real players. Mini-map on screen shows an overview. Upgrade your bots as you win in campaign mode.
- Software downloads 2005-06-07
- The DefBot 1.0.0 (Mac)
- A advanced robot and client for use with HotLine servers, it replaces the standard client and has full admin features. Allows multiple connections even to different servers, customized messaging, rule enforcment, file transfers, news access, HotLine Icons display, user history, rule breakers listing, tracker searches, messaging commands for remote bot...
- Software downloads 2005-06-06
- What You Need to Know About Botnets!
- A bot, short for robot, is an automated software program that can execute certain commands. A botnet, short for robot network, is an aggregation of computers compromised by bots that are connected to a central "controller." These botnet controllers are often controlled from chat rooms. Botnet controllers can be linked...
- White papers 2004-11-01
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- Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter
- This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to today's networks, and how the Cisco Botnet Traffic Filter enables Cisco ASA appliances to fight botnets and to handle their dynamic nature. A botnet is a collection of autonomous software robots bots, typically malicious in nature, that operate...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Wowwee
- WowweeHow about Rosie, the housekeeperfrom The Jetsons. She was always way too interested in what Judy Jetson was doing, and with whom.How about the "Sexy Robot"......from the I think ALCOA TV ad from I think about twenty years ago:http://www.skrenta.com/images/sexy-robot.jpg(I couldn't find a video of it...)Those gold-plated joints are cool...RE: WowweeWho...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- Wowwee's Top 10 Love-Starved Androids (and yeah, the toys are on sale)
- I get a lot of stupid pitches from PR folks for Tech Broiler. Most of them I ignore and go directly into the bit bucket. But as tomorrow is Valentine's day, this one particular amusing distraction from the guys over at Wowwee, makers...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Is Cuil killing the Internet?
- Is Cuil killing the Internet?Brute force indexing?I have an inkling Cuil might not be everything it's touted to be. The only reason for brute force indexing is to fill in the gaps where you've come up short in your harvesting/indexing algorithms.RE: Is Cuil killing the Internet?I used Cuil to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- ChipWits II .9991 (Mac)
- Take a robot on skates, plug chips into its brain, and drop it into challenging worlds to rack up the highest scores! It’s ChipWits II â€Â" the game of bot-coding and puzzle-solving fun. Players create ChipWits by plugging chips into their robot’s brain. Use the ZAP chip to fry an...
- Software downloads 2008-08-25
- Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butler
- German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have introduced their third generation of household robots, the Care-O-Bot 3. The previous generations of this mobile robot assistant were designed to assist elderly or handicapped people in daily life activities. But now, this new 1.45 meter-high robot is intended to be an artificial...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Stipes Click 1 (Windows)
- Stipes Click is a revolutionary program in the field of automated task completion, create custom 'Robots' that will perform perpetual and dull tasks that just aren't suitable for humans. You can choose a mixture of keyboard and mouse input to create a multi-tasking bot. You can then exchange these small...
- Software downloads 2008-02-19
- MSCABImage for Windows 2.0.1 (Windows)
- MSCABImage captcha code is the best cure from nasty posting bots robots. These bots create hundreds email accounts on your web-based mail servers and spam from them, fill your forums with thousands of commercial postings and screw your online polls. How it works. ABImage Component generates random number and...
- Software downloads 2008-01-28
- IDC study will reveal the dark matter of search
- Susan Feldman, a senior analyst at IDC, will release on Friday the results of a groundbreaking study that shoots down one of the largest myths in search engine marketing: that the majority of traffic to web sites comes from one of the top ten search engines. By comparing publicly available...
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Robotics: Is Microsoft's vision the right one?
- New Yorkers claim New York City to be the capital of many things: media, arts, fashion…but is the Big Apple also “robot city”?The New York Software Industry Association NYSIA convened a panel of academics, artists and hobbyists last evening to find out. Robots were on hand too.Farshad Khorrami, Professor, Computer...
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Robots on the loose at CES
- At the gadget fest in Las Vegas, iRobot's newest bot scoots and hoists, WowWee's Panda chats and Robo Elvis looks good in leather.
- Image galleries 2007-01-11
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