Robo Pets for the Elderly -- Pets have long been hailed for their ability to help older people deal the loneliness and isolation that comes with aging in America. But what about pets made out of plastic and metal? (4/12)http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/robots_elderly020409.html
Trade Secrets of the 6-Legged Set -- Prof. Robert J. Full is a Berkeley biologist who spends most days handling giant cockroaches, finger-biting geckos and poisonous centipedes. As the director of Berkeley's Poly-Pedal laboratory, Full leads a team that is racing to decipher the secrets of locomotion and apply them in a host of ways, to do things like defuse land mines or help animators put a believably springy step in cartoon creatures. (4/11)http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/garden/04LOOK.html
New breed spam filter slashes junk email -- A new breed of spam-filtering technology that combines peer-to-peer communications with machine learning could intercept nearly all unwanted email, according to its creators. (NewScientist.com) (4/11)http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992141
The New Mobile Infantry -- Battle-ready robots are rolling out of the research lab and into harm's way. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/robots.html