Archives for the 'robots' Category

Bad Idea

Published on 15 Jul 2009 at 11:13 pm. No Comments.
Filed under food, moronocy, robots.

Never mind those quaint “I, Robot” and “2001″ type AI systems with personality disorders figuring out they’re smarter than us and deciding to take over.  These organic matter-eating robots don’t need to be any smarter than a pit bull to get hungry, look around, not find any plants or dead bodies to eat and decide you’ll do …
FOX News:  

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Jules The Freakishly Real Robot

Published on 1 Nov 2008 at 9:53 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under robots.

His disembodied robot head mimics human expressions with freakish realism. It’s science imitating life with … freakish accuracy. Give that robot head a pair of glasses and he’d actually look quite a bit like the younger Jules Crittenden, freakishly robotic real person. His rant definitely sounds a lot like me. The content, not the BBC accent:
“Did you know that researchers [...]

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Monkeys Control Robot Arm With Their Thoughts

Published on 29 May 2008 at 11:41 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under deep thot, monkeys, robots.

It’s an astonishing development. But who among us hasn’t felt like a monkey-thought-controlled robot arm at some point in our working lives? No unkind Scott McClellan jokes, please. But this part is especially chilling: 

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Milbots

Published on 27 Feb 2008 at 10:22 am. 9 Comments.
Filed under military, robots.

Kill people, don’t they? Threat to humanity, says Brit prof.

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