Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks about the advancement of home robots from 1982 to today. Story links: NYT: Planning Domesticated Robots, Android Amusement Corp, Boys and Robots Will Be Boys, Tomy Omnibot 5402 From 1984 in Action!, Omnibot 5402/TR5000 By Tomy, Talking Robie 2, Furby Commercial 2000-Ain’t No Furby Like Mine, Personal Robots CYE, Cye Pictures, First Generation Roomba Commercial, Shopsweeping, Floorwashing, Guttercleaning, Robomow, Paradise Robotics Lawnbott Evolution LB3210, Husqvarna AutoMower at work, RIBA, CMU, Personal Robotics in Pittsburgh, Autonomous Manipulation (IRP2008)

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

Unimate, robot assembly line, Boston Dynamics Big Dog, Dustbot, Cell Phones That Listen and Learn, Computer learns sign language by watching TV, How To Insult Someone Using British Sign Language, MIT developing fabrics capable of taking pictures, Gundam over Tokyo

Johannes Kreidler - Charts Music - Songsmith fed with Stock Charts, Job Losses In Recent Recessions, Facepalm, Barney Stinson’s Video Resume (fictional character on ‘How I Met Your Mother’), Proof: Japan Discovered Numa Numa, Simroid (a.k.a. ‘Pain Girl’), Would you name your child Nokia?, Re: The Longest Words in the English Language, 867-5309 Auction Ends Today, Twitter of the Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, FAKED Chinese Spacewalk !!! Under Water !!! PROOF !!!, Pot backers hit Kellogg’s over Phelps

The environmental impact of Google Searches, related Techmeme thread, Powering a Google Search, Dogpile, HowStuffWorks: Does gum really stay in you for seven years?, Chewing gum burns 70 kilocalories per hour, Cognitive vaccine: using Tetris to fight PTSD, Lobster to regain his freedom at age 140, 80-year-old lobster from local restuarant heading back to the ocean, Bubba the lobster, March 2, 2005: Monster Lobster Pardoned, Laid-off workers eligible for free tuition at CCAC, Alcoa’s 13,500 Layoffs Could Taint Pittsburgh’s Corporate Image, Redneck Amusement Park, Japan researchers unveil robot suit for farmers, DIY Handsfree, Cell-Mate, Best of Elevator (Remi Gaillard)

December 2008 Leap Second, Embloggery, 1,300 graduate students who struggle to sell the pork ashamed? (via China Smack), China Gets World of Warcraft Themed Restaurant, Pickle Sickle, Anyone?, Zoo animals need to slim down (via ScienceBlogs), Stars orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole at our Galactic Center (video), Scientists baffled by mysterious acorn shortage, Firebreathing Dog Robot Will Ruin Your Day, Chris Christmas Rodriguez Videos

WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me, Robot First Test, MechRC Humanoid Robot, 46 days left, Bush approval ratings climb, China’s .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD, Live webcam in Inglewood, United States, Randy’s Donuts

Motoman industrial robot cooks okonomiyaki, See-saw bike, NASA Mars photo leaked - wood found on mars!, NASA, Edna Parker dies at 115, Portugal, Supercentenarian, Oldest people, Maria de Jesus, The Big Picture by Helen Marshall, Arthur James Bunce, NY Times Obama Newspaper - Brand new - never opened, Chris Christmas Rodriguez

Fonzie Jumps The Shark, US hunters claim to have found Bigfoot, Spain to Grant Human Rights to Great Apes, Peter Fox: Alles Neu, Career Builder Ad With Monkeys, Gerald The Gorilla Sketch, Goatee Saver (via Curiobot), The Very Loud Fenstar Flying Military Robot, Bono Leaks U2 Tracks Online by Playing His Music Too Loud, Michael Phelps Won A Bunch of Stuff This Weekend, The 1/100th of a Second Conspiracy Site, The Time Travel Fund lets you Travel Into The Future in the Future

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN in 3 minutes, Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider testing didn’t cause a black hole, Large Hadron Rap (thx, Alphaxion!), The Global Warming Rug Will Last 1000 Years, The US Army Wants to be Nearly One-Third Robotic by 2020, Tetra Vaal Robot Animation, Kid playing video games, more kids playing video games, Monty Mash, Bitchy Betty bitches for the world to change (thx, Stephanie!), Was the Montauk Monster Viral Marketing For a Movie?, Splinterheads The Movie, Splinterheads Tumblr Blog, Telephone Piano, Free Rocketboom t-shirt for the first person to figure out the Riddle of Stella!

Send Your Name to the Moon, Creepy Japanese Crawling Robot, 2012 Supplies - Everything needed to survive 2012, Escape 2 Earth - The Novel!, Save the Clock Tower Flyer, More Fireworks, SETI Adopt a Scientist

story links: Dictionaraoke, Disney movies in 3D, Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone covers the creepy new Segway RMP Robot, Poll: 81 Percent Think US on Wrong Track, Osamu Tezuka’s Galaxy Boy Troop puppet space opera of the early 1960’s, Seed Magazine interview with Benoit Mandelbrot, Fractals, Chain Surfing, She without arm he without leg ballet, Kitty Tennis, Send Queen Rania of Jordan your stereotypes

Story Links: The search for a good pot dealer, Robot in Japan controlled by monkey in US, Watching paint dry, Paint dry watching expert, Hardcore paint drying, Wikiboom collection of paint drying videos, Historical party in Melbourne with Corey Delaney and his famous sunglasses, Star Wars on bagpipes and Guinnes, Tom Cruise - The Freedom Medal Award Ceremony, Test tube universe nearest to absolute zero

story links: Game Boy Around the World, The rise and fall of Hello Kitty Hell, Twitter list of prediction lists, Ask Bill Gates at CES, Apple to take over world in 2008, Robert X. Cringely’s wackywise predictions, Don’t censor me “worst comments on digg” aggregator, Assembly motion tracking bot honored, via,2008 Robot Video Page

story links: the municator, popurls, scoty robot (via time), celebrity look-a-like (via steve garfield), coffee art, home theater (via techeblog), monty python coconut orchestra (thanks for the tip connie!)