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Robots are so advanced these days that they even know how to make themselves prevalent during otherwise-humdrum news weeks to get themselves extra-featured on important and widely-listened-to technology audio programs. Almost live, from Portland, it's the mechanized takeover of The Engadget Podcast. Don't worry: the worst they can do is crush you underfoot.
**Hosts:** Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
**Producer:** [Trent Wolbe][3]
**Music: **[Orbital][4] - [Never][5]
02:28 - [Microsoft launches Outlook.com, a new email service with limited ads, unlimited storage and built-in Skype][6]
06:58 - [Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 official: Windows 8, NFC and a fingerprint reader, arrives in October][7]
11:30 - [RIM chief: we looked 'seriously' at Android, didn't want to join the herd][8]
14:32 - [Apple seizes on Samsung internal document as proof of mimicry][9]
18:53 - [CE-Oh no he didn't!: Acer's JT Wang tells Microsoft to 'think twice' about Surface][10]
23:24 - [NASA's Curiosity Mars landing successful, first pictures trickling in (video)][11]
27:42 - [WiFi-Extending Robot is built like a tank -- we talk to the people behind the project (video)][12]
31:16 - [Stompy gets off the ground with a Kickstarter: buy a ride on a 2-ton hexabot][13]
33:33 - [Cranial Drilling Device puts a hole in skulls, not brains][14]
34:52 - [Rethinking the robot hand at Harvard (video)][15]
35:54 - [TakkTile turns digital barometers into open-source robot touch sensors][16]
37:22 - [SLIPS liquid repeller is inspired by carnivorous plants, enemy to insects and graffiti artists alike][17]
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[Engadget Podcast 305 - 08.09.2012][2] originally appeared on [Engadget][25] on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:10:00 EDT. Please see our [terms for use of feeds][26].
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[6]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/31/microsoft-outlook-email-service-announced/
[7]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/08/lenovo-thinkpad-tablet-2-announced/
[8]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/03/rim-chief-we-looked-seriously-at-android/
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[10]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/07/acer-tells-microsoft-to-think-twice-about-surface/
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