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BREAKING NEWS: Anthrobotic.com Releases Technosnark Virus into Mainstream Media

Mar 302013

The technology dork in charge at Anthrobotic.com has infected yet another online news source: Japan Today’s beautifully made INSIGHT MAGAZINE. If you’ve got an iPad, subscribe! If you don’t have an iPad, get an iPad – then subscribe!

March 30, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 1:25 AM Activelink Power Loader, AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Bionic, CareBots, Cyberdyne, Cybernetics, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, HAL Suit, Human Augmentation, iRobot, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Nuclear Stuff, Robot, Shameful Self-Promotion, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism, WarBots

Robots for Japan: talk with them, move with them, live with them… All in time.

Mar 222013

Japan’s going to be running out of people, and apparently a lot of the kids these days just don’t wanna, you know, do it. So, naturally – robots, yo.

March 22, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 10:06 AM Aging Society, AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Bionic, CareBots, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Human Augmentation, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Disability, Technology & Labor

An Upside to Fukushima: Japan’s Robot Renaissance

Mar 152013

This piece is not a memorial, but hopefully a brief insight into how a terrible natural disaster has invigorated Japan’s robotics industry and brought to light a problem affecting all industrialized societies.

March 15, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 9:52 PM Activelink Power Loader, Asia, CareBots, Cyberdyne, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, Energy Technology, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Industrial Robots, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Nuclear Stuff, Robot, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism

Manifesting Star Trek, Part-1 (THE GOOD): 700mph Needleless Drug Injections!

May 292012

There’s an obvious relationship between the consumption of sci-fi and technological inspiration, i.e., the inspiration of fi often leads to some really awesome sci. But there’s also a dark side, and it can throw a memetic monkeywrench into an entire paradigm…

May 29, 2012 Posted by anthrobotic at 10:52 PM CareBots, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Star Trek, Technology

Japanese Technology from the Future Friday! (NEW SECTION AT ANTHROBOTIC.COM)

Feb 172012

A: “There is a man who lives in Japan, in the future, and the J-Tech is strong with him.” B: “What? Seriously? How can that possibly work?!” A: “Japan IS in the future – it’s already tomorrow there already.” B: “Oh. My. God.”

February 17, 2012 Posted by anthrobotic at 3:26 PM CareBots, Energy Technology, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Labor

The Disabled Wage War Against the Wheelchair and Begin Test-Piloting Transhumanism

Jan 102012

Disabled pioneers are living examples of how technology is blurring the lines between what is considered practical, necessary augmentation and what, someday soon, might be just a nice alternative to flesh – a voluntary upgrade.

January 10, 2012 Posted by anthrobotic at 1:28 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, CareBots, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Military Robotics, Neurology, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

ROM for Right & Wrong: Teaching Humans Vs. Coding Machines

Jan 072012

It might be a good idea to encourage non-biological intelligences (NBIs) to be, as we are, only vaguely moral. A self-aware & morally pure machine might not be so kind to human nature. Just saying.

January 7, 2012 Posted by anthrobotic at 2:25 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, CareBots, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Industrial Robots, Medical Robots, Military Robotics, Robot, Robot Emotions, Robot Love, Technology, Technology & Politics, Technology & Work, Technology Law

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