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Robots that walk, robots that talk, robots that suck and, yes, robots that blow. We've got them all in this week's roundup: (Okay, we lied about the robots that talk bit...but some of them do, you know?) Loch, Singapore's Android Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has been working on its nation's most complex full-scale android yet--Loch, the Low Cost Humanoid--for a few years, but he's been largely overlooked. This is a shame, because though he's from a nation you wouldn't normally associate with advanced robotics, he can walk, manage stairs, and resist being pushed off course.

Hands on surgical training (HoST) actually helps move the hands of surgeons in training to help them experience what it's like to make the cut. But are they actually learning? A teaching method that allows novice med students to instantly move with the same dexterity as the world's most seasoned surgeons sounds like the kind of science fiction quackery that'd get patients killed.

It's not guesswork. Build solutions not just based on features and functions but in accordance to how your customers use handheld devices in their everyday lives. These days it is rare to find someone who doesn't rely on a smartphone or some kind of handheld device and a slew of mobile apps to stay productive at work, on the road or even in their home.

It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 24 people, picked to live among mentors and innovation experts, stop going to school and start getting real--in business. One climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

QD Laser, Fujitsu Laboratories, and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, the University of Tokyo today announced the world's first successful operation of a 1.3

UPS is testing trucks made of an ultra-light material that makes them more fuel efficient than their sheet-aluminum counterparts. UPS has the unfortunate task of figuring out how to deliver packages without bleeding cash in our resource-constrained world

German scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam, transmitting them over a distance of 50 km, and decoding them successfully. This is the largest data volume ever transported on a laser beam. The process developed by KIT allows to transmit the contents of 700 DVDs in one second only.

It looks like the iPhone 5 won't be out until later this year...but there is plenty to talk about already. Here's our summary of the hottest hints on Apple's next big trendsetting device. The iPhone--love it or hate it--has played a huge role in redefining the entire smartphone genre.

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You may unwittingly be exposing your bundle of joy to toxic chemicals.

GTherm's new technology solves the unfortunate side effect of harvesting the Earth's heat--serious tremors.

That's the future we envision, after seeing this Microsoft tech that projects what's going on underneath your skin, on top of your skin. One of the greatest health scourges of this country or any one isn't a bacterium, virus, or disease at all. Rather, it's a behavior--or, to put a finer point on it, a lack of a behavior.

They could capture nearly all of the sun's light, as opposed to just 20%.

01 / Netflix > > For ushering in the era of streaming video.

This article is part one of a two part series. In part two, we will look at what small businesses should know. Jack Plunkett is the CEO of Plunkett Research .