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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[3 comments<br><br>TRON 3.0<br><br>it plays HD-DVD<br><br>add something like that on the segway and think of all the possibilities old purse snatchers can still be in the game, oh and volleyball too]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 5:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Fail <br>Fail <br>and <br>Fail]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[strider_mt2k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 8:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA["I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."  Thomas A. Edison]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 3:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA["No, you just failed." Me]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[El Taco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 3:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[3 comments:<br>1. Not funny. <br>2. Not funny.<br>3 (but technically two comments). Not funny.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orpheus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 6:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Win!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[strider_mt2k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 8:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[> why don't we all have one or two of these laying around the house by now?<br><br>The same reason why Aibos too are not everywhere: they aren't cheap enough yet.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ferdikom98]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 6:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yes, cost.<br>The volleyball robot could cost over 1M$ to buy, install, program and setup. I can take a volleyball community course with a dozen of players for 40$.<br>Robotics is freaken expensive.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexandre Emond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 7:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[All of these research technologies end up getting used to give them an edge in the car market.  Therefore, play volleyball with your car.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 7:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Despite your comment making no sense, since Toshiba doesn't make cars, I up-ranked you because the visual of someone playing volleyball with a car was just too good.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gad get]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 8:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think I was thinking of Toyota.  If it had been Hitachi, I would probably have gone for Honda.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 9:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is it impressive that this 12-year-old robot rivals today's most advanced robots, or is it just depressing that robotics has apparently progressed so little since then? I'm going with the latter.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gad get]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 8:09AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just look at Asimo, Honda's coolest robot .<br>I want him to be my friend .]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kawaiipikachu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 8:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wow, trot out an old robot and the comments go all to crap.<br><br>Quit trying so hard you people.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[strider_mt2k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 8:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[See here a video of the RoboCup 2008 Humanoid Soccer Final <br>Team Osaka vs. NimbRo:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMM_XQXJUUc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMM_XQXJUUc</a><br><br> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NimbRo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 1:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's totally a Tron recognizer.<br><br><a href="http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/ms_tron.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/ms_tron.htm</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[why not the LS2LS7?]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 11:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[The music was really the best part. And the fact that in Japan, people apparently play "beach ball volley" with hand-held badminton racket heads...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MyHeadisFed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 2:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[any FIRST kids on here? <br>if there are, this should totally be next years game. id love to build something like that!<br><br>for you non-FIRST people...<br><a href="http://usfirst.org/" rel="nofollow">http://usfirst.org/</a><br>FRC rocks my socks]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 3:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Aagh... GIF image...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[treyk4]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 4:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[No, I take that back. either it's a GIF converted to JPEG or a really low quality JPEG. Either way, fail.<br>PNG ftw!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[treyk4]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 4:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Engadget, you're slipping!  This is well over eleven years old!<br>;-)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ED]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 6:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looks as though this robot killed some poor clown and took his nose as a trophy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fanthem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 6:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[no it doesnt.<br><br>I dont usually bother with ranking, but I think I had to low rank about 90% of the replies in this thread. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bolezhinkov]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 6:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thanks for telling me how I should interperate the way I see things in life.  On that note, how should I take my coffee in the morning?  Behold the power or Mr. Vigilante Low Ranker.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fanthem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 7:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[I lol'd at brought to you by "a lot of people"<br><br>-jp<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2008 11:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Toshiba's decade-old automated volleyball bot resurfaces: where's ours?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/26/toshibas-decade-old-automated-volleyball-bot-resurfaces/</guid><description><![CDATA[Even Jonny 5 couldnt play volleyball.. no lasers tho. Ya mamma was a snowblower.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ipubs bastard child]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 27th 2008 4:49AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
