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To be honest with all you guys, we're only covering the human Olympics because it doesn't happen very often.

We'd much rather be covering the ROBOT OLYMPICS.

Plus, instead of medals that collect dust later in their lives, these robots will be fighting for lots of money: $2 million.

It's call The Robotics Challenge, and is from the Pentagon’s military research arm DARPA (short for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Apparently it's happening in October, and is open to people all over the world.

To win, you have to demonstrate robotic capabilities of the future that could someday support the Defense Department’s humanitarian mission: disaster relief, providing aid to victims and running evacuation operations.

So don't bring your Terminators.

Here are some of the tasks:

- Challenged to drive a utility vehicle like an ATV and to master its controls, from the ignition and brakes through to steering.
- Walk on uneven ground and navigate debris in their path, or clear an obstruction from a doorway and open it.
- Be able to break through a concrete wall to locate and then fix a leaking pipe.
- Fine motor skills will also be tested, such as possibly removing and then replacing a small pump and climbing a ladder followed by successfully getting across a catwalk.

One of the major things is adaptability. This is important, because the complexity of any upcoming disaster cannot be entirely anticipated. Things like learning a new tool to help with an unforeseen event would fit this.

Both hardware and software developers are welcome!

So cool! Good luck, everyone!

Science! Science! Science!

[Image courtesy DARPA.]

Tags: arm, challenge, fighting, human, million, money, olympic, olympics, research, robot

Sad…

A Florida teen is recovering at a Fort Myers hospital after a 10 feet long alligator bit off his arm.

Kaleb Langdale, 17, was swimming with friends in the Caloosahatchee River when the alligator attacked.

Tags: alligator, arm, attack, florida, fred, gator, kaleb langdale, sad, teenager

Wow!

That's some serious skill.

This dad was able to hold his baby in one arm, and catch a foul ball with the other.

Tags: arm, baby, baseball, dad, foul ball, funny, good, parenting, serious, skill, skillz

Oh no!

What happened?

Anne Hathaway was spotted walking through Brooklyn with her fiance Adam Shulman in a pretty hat, pulled low and her arm in a sling!

We knew she was hurt, as we previously mentioned, but we didn't know how badly.

She's got her cast all dressed up in a pretty sling, so at least she's being festive with her injury, which means it can't be too awful, right?

She's not saying how she hurt it, so we hope it's nothing serious and that she's not in pain.

Also, we apologize for the corny Ca(s)t-woman joke. (Because she's playing Cat-woman in The Dark Knight Rises! Get it??)

Anywayz, feel better, gurl!

[Image via Pacific Coast News.]

Tags: anne hathaway, arm, brooklyn, cast, cat woman, dark knight rises, film, fit, girl, pain, serious, sling, spotted, walking, woman

Dave Hurban, from Newfield, N.J., was a tattoo artist who must've gotten tired of wristbands.

So he implanted four magnets in his left forearm to hold his iPod Nano in place.

What's crazy (other than all of this) is that he did it all himself!

Now that it's done he can swing his arm around and even jog without it falling off. He said:

"I actually am the inventor of the strapless watch."

What's next? Wireless earbuds implanted into the ears?

Check out the video (above) to watch him install the magnets.

WARNING: The video isn't crazzzy graphic but we wouldn't watch it while eating.

Tags: arm, band, crazy, ipod, jog, magnets, nano, new jersey, tattoo, watch

This is the PERFECT example as to why you don't post a pic like this without an explanation!

Rihanna tweeted this picture (above) of her arm receiving an IV drip of some sort. With no caption. No comment.

Which makes us worry!

Gurl, are you okay??

Apparently she was well enough to board a plane from NY to LA a few hours later, so we hope this isn't just some new celeb health fad. We totally don't think it is.

But until she tells us, there's nothing we can really do BUT worry!

Hope you're feeling better, RiRi!

P.S. CLICK HERE to "follow" Perez on Twitter!

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[Image via Twitter.]

Tags: arm, board, drip, facebook, health, hours, iv, picture, rihanna, tweet, twitter

Or so she'd like us to think!

Tricky tricky Jessica Alba!

The actress was spotted enjoying some beautiful El Lay weather yesterday in the park with daughters Honor and Haven Warren, and very noticeably was sporting a tattoo of roses on her upper left arm!

Ch-ch-check her out (above)!

Luckily, however, it appears that the ink is only

Tags: a.c.o.d., arm, children, haven warren, honor warren, jessica alba, new movie, out and about, park, production, roses, tattoo