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Robots are meant to help humanity in their very own way, which is a good thing. We are just keeping our fingers crossed that robots do not gain that kind of self awareness that would enslave us all, just like all those apocalyptic scenarios that we have seen in science fiction movies. Well, here is a robot that knows the value of a life. Robotena, as “she” is called, is a nurse robot that is capable of moving the injured away from snipers on the streets of Syria. After all, it makes perfect sense. Anyone who wants to help someone who has been shot in the street by a sniper would run the risk of being shot him or herself, so why not send out a robot? Unless the sniper knows of the Robotena’s weak points, wasting bullets on a hunk of metal with the risk of revealing one’s position could be too much.

Ahmad Heidar hopes his invention of Robotena will be able to ensure that help will reach those injured in such vile attacks. Heldar said, “The brother of one of my students got shot in the leg. It was such a memorable moment.” It a few minutes, a fatal shot to the neck had killed him, while another half an hour was required to remove the body away from the sniper’s threat. It does start to sound as though the military might want to dip their fingers into the Robotena first though.

Robotena The Nurse Robot Moves Injured Away From Danger original content from Ubergizmo.

It feels as though it is a long time ago when the Nokia N900 was released, and back then, Nokia was pretty much a big player in the mobile phone business still, at least not in a position of where it is today. Those were the days when Nokia rolled out a range of high end smartphones that were specially designed to run the open source Maemo Linux operating system. Well, it is time to roll back the years with the Neo900, where it will come with a similar look and feel of the now defunct Nokia N900, albeit sporting a more updated processor, additional RAM, apart from the ability to run a wide range of software that will include Maemo, Android, and perhaps even Ubuntu or Firefox OS.

The entire goal of the Neo900 is to offer a truly open platform, without making use of any proprietary binary blobs. That ought to make it relatively easy for you to port new operating systems in order to have it run on the device. However, do make no mistake about it – it is crystal clear that the Neo900 was specially designed in order to be a successor to the Nokia N900, sporting a rather similar case form factor apart from other bits and pieces of its hardware. Of course, if you were to take the Neo900’s hardware specifications into consideration for today’s standards, it does look rather dated, but that is to be expected since it needs to run on an operating system which was meant for a 4-year old device.

Neo900 Rolls Back The Years With Open Hardware original content from Ubergizmo.

Hyundai has revealed that it will be recalling approximately 27,500 of its Genesis vehicles, all of which are located in the United States and fall in model years between 2009 and 2012. The reason involves problems with the braking system, with the auto maker needing to potentially add more brake fluid and an anti-corrosive additive. […]

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