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			<title>Design News Radio: Smart Machines Make the Grade for Control Applications</title>
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			<dc:creator>Rob Spiegel</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Design News's latest radio show explores the benefits - and tradeoffs - of smart machines.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Connectivity Enabling Smart Manufacturing</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=264521&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Al Presher</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The push to achieving more intelligent, integrated manufacturing is putting a strong focus on networking and connectivity as key enabling technologies.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Improving Machine Processes &amp; Plant Automation</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=264195&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Leading companies are embracing mechatronics, and they are experiencing the rewards of the cost savings and operational benefits of an integrated and synergistic approach to machine design. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slideshow: Flying Robots Take Action</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=264353&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Surveillance, reconnaissance, and search and rescue in military and first responder situations are popular applications for aerial robots. Yet not all the robots are considered unmanned aerial vehicles.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video: Students Develop Tornado-Seeking Drones</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=264266&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Elizabeth Montalbano</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[An unmanned aerial vehicle under development at Oklahoma State University can penetrate severe thunderstorms, including the supercells from which tornadoes can develop.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Managing Complexity &amp; Reducing Risk </title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1365&amp;doc_id=264189&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Kevin Craig</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[How should engineers respond to high-risk technologies? ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video: RoboBee Finally Takes Off</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=264095&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[An engineering team at Harvard University's Microrobotics Lab has completed the maiden flight of its tiny RoboBee robot. The controlled flight of the insect-sized robot that flaps its wings is considered a robotics first.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video: Mobile App-Driven Robot Bartender Makes, Shakes Drinks to Order</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=264016&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Elizabeth Montalbano</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Makr Shakr works like this: People download an app to their Android or iPhone mobile device, then create drink combinations. The robot makes the drinks requested with assembly-line efficiency and graceful movements modeled on two professional dancers.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 05:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slideshow: Feds Study Human Brain; DARPA Wants to Make Robots Autonomous</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=263495&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The government wants to study your brain, and DARPA wants to use similar information to give robots true autonomy beyond any artificial intelligence developed to date. Sound like science fiction? It's not. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Harvard, MIT Researchers Design 3D Printed, Self-Assembling Robots</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=263447&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Elizabeth Montalbano</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Researchers from MIT and Harvard have designed a 3D printed robot that crawls like an inchworm and can self-assemble with an electric jolt.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video: Seahorse Armor Inspires Robot Design</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&amp;doc_id=263409&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are designing a robotic arm that takes inspiration from the loose, flexible, yet very strong structure of the armored plates on a seahorse's tail.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rethink Reveals Version of Baxter Industrial Robot for Researchers</title>
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			<dc:creator>Elizabeth Montalbano</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Rethink Robotics is giving researchers an ability to get up close and personal with its Baxter industrial robot with a new research version they can use to build custom software and applications.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video Blog: Life-Changing Inventions &amp; the Big Bucks</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=263056&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Richard Nass</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[DN brand director Rich Nass picks two important topics for his weekly video blog -- engineering starting salaries and the 20th anniversary of the Internet. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Frequency Response: The Gold Standard</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1365&amp;doc_id=262842&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Kevin Craig</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Engineers predict real-world response and identify model parameters.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>How to Create a Low-Pass Filter</title>
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			<dc:creator>Jon Titus</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you will not find a low-pass filter with the specifications you need in an anti-alias circuit. So you might decide to design your own. But you wonder, "Can I get the same performance I see in application notes?"]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Getting a Grip on Automated Manufacturing</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1365&amp;doc_id=262846&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Machine designers must select and size the right gripper in order to design a well-functioning automated process.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 05:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video: NASA Working on Lunar Mining Robot</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=260835&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[NASA is working on a robot for lunar mining operations to produce  rocket propellant, water, air, or construction materials for astronauts.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Mobile Technology's Influence on Data Acquisition</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=262720&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Al Presher</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Industrial users are coming to expect mobile access to measurement data, according to an article that is part of a recently released National Instruments report.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slideshow: Nautical Robots Go With the Flow</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&amp;doc_id=262528&amp;f_src=designnews_node_3059</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Whether they navigate the salty seas or fresh water lakes, rivers, or oceans, many underwater robots can do a number of different types of tasks, depending on their payloads.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Engineering Creativity Peaks in Kindergarten</title>
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			<dc:creator>Joseph Berk</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[As engineers, we're not nearly as creative as we think we are.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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