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We’ve come across plenty of robots that were controlled by phones before, but usually those phones were being controlled by human hands. Some California hackers, however, are building bots that put Android to work for their robo-brainpower.
Their first creation, the TruckBot, uses a HTC G1 as a brain and has a chassis that they made for $30 in parts. It’s not too advanced yet—it can use the phone’s compass to head in a particular direction—but they’re working on incorporating the bot more fully with the phone and the Android software. Some ideas they’re kicking around that wouldn’t be possible with a dinky Arduino brain: face and voice recognition and location awareness.

If you’re interested in putting together a Cellbot of your own—can you even conceive of a cooler dock for your Android phone? Or a better use for your G1?—the team’s development blog has some more information. The possibilities here are manifold; mad scientists, feel free to share your Android-bot schemes in the comments. [Wired]
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Tragedy! The New York Times is reporting that Viacom is going to pull “The Daily Show,” “The Colbert Report,” and other Comedy Central properties off of Hulu next week. The reason, as always: money. The bigger question: who’s next?
Apparently Viacom realized the importance of “The Daily Show” to Hulu—it’s consistently one of the site’s most popular programs and is clearly in sync with the Hulu demographc—and wanted outsized compensation, possibly including upfront payment.
You’ll still be able to watch rebroadcasts of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert on TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com. But the larger point seems to be that if you’re not one of Hulu’s major network stakeholders, sharing your content on the site may not be financially viable. That doesn’t immediately impact many popular shows outside of Viacom’s cadre, but if Hulu wants to be a big tent for online video, they’re going to need the participation of third-party content providers. Of which there are plenty, including BBC America, WB, and a whole lot of niche content providers with passionate fan bases.
Maybe Hulu’s inevitable pay model will be a solution that helps spread the wealth a little better. But if they lose many more shows by then, it may not even matter. [NY Times]
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Days after The Great Purge of all apps considered sexy (unless you happened to be a major publisher), developers have spotted a new category for submitting apps to the App Store: Explicit.
The new category hasn’t shown up in the App Store yet, but what it potentially means is obvious: A place for explicit applications to live. We’ve been waiting for such a place since the App Store opened, actually getting excited when Parental Controls made their way into iPhone 3.0, hoping it would release a pent-up flood of apps like the long-lost South Park app, or Playboy for those so-inclined. An explicit category suggests that it could finally happen.
It’d be a smart move on Apple’s part. Phil Schiller can say we removed all of those overtly sexual apps because they were offensive, but we also value the ability of our adult customers to choose the kind of content they consume, so we’ve made a special walled-off section of the App Store for that more explicit content. I doubt that even with an explicit category we’d see anything more hardcore than R-rated, though. But still, it’d largely remove Apple from the sticky situation of being an arbiter of taste, an inconsistent censor.
Or you know, maybe it’s none of that. [Cult of Mac]
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