This is exactly why we don’t run around at CES with cameras. Actual news bloggers like Veronica do a pretty good job of it already and also manage to look good doing it. While I, on the other hand, would look like a frigtard that somehow snuck in through the back docks. Thus we leave it to the professionals 
More link love for Veronica: Veronica highlights robots at CES.
PS: Nice joke about the models slipped in at the opening 
Staying Ahead at the FIRST Robotics Competition
Boston team overcomes challenges with strategy at 2007 FRC
After winning the Boston FIRST Regional Robotics Competition this year, high school robotics team the NU-TRONS went on to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in Atlanta, GA, as Team 125. NU-TRONS co-captain and high school senior John Larkin talks about how the team prepared for this year’s challenge and what it took to stand out in a crowd of 344 teams.
Jenn Shreve (Wired) interviews Lee GutKind about his new book, Almost Human: Making Robots Think
WN: You cross paths with some very “realistic,” humanlike robots. Did you ever get used to those encounters?
Gutkind: To me it was constantly off-putting. The roboticists didn’t necessarily find it uncomfortable, but they did have a difficult time figuring out what their relationship to these creatures should be. When they began designing Zoë, they referred to the robot as it. It was a concept, an idea and a chassis. But as Zoë became a real thing that would respond to their wishes and ideas, they gradually began using the pronoun she or her to describe Zoë.
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