China, robots are coming to get your economy.
Jan 172012
January 17, 2012
Apple, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Industrial Robots, iPhone 5, NBI, Robot, Technology, Technology & Labor, Technology & Work
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.
Dec 082011
See this awesome robot art? There’s a ton more. And you can submit your own. Fans of robot-themed desktops rejoice.
December 8, 2011
CareBots, Industrial Robots, Medical Robots, Military Robotics, Robot, Robot Art, Robot Emotions, Robot Love, Robots in Space, Technology, WarBots
Oct 252011
THIS time the machines mean business! Heh, heh. Heh. Okay – but really. You know, Excel put a bunch of accountants on unemployment, but the world needed fewer people who like working as accountants anyway.
October 25, 2011
Industrial Robots, Medical Robots, Military Robotics, NBI, Robot, Technology & Labor, Technology & Politics, Technology & Work
Sep 142011
The robot revolution has been imminent for several decades, ironically. Regardless of timeframe, the fact of the matter is that we’re now pushing and developing at such a pace that it’s inevitable – at some point robots have to match our sci-fi expectations – and I think it’s now actually factually …
September 14, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, CareBots, Cybernetics, Energy Technology, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Industrial Robots, Medical Robots, Military Robotics, Prosthetics, Robot, Robot Art, Robot Emotions, Robot Love, Robots in Space, Technology, Technology & Labor, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Aug 302011
Back in March, ANTHROBOTIC mentioned that a version of American company iRobot’s battle-tested Packbot was the first robot to explore and assess the situation at the failing Fukushima nuclear power plant. To Japan’s implicit embarrassment, there were no Japanese robots available or able to immediately hit the ground running (as covered after the jump, one of the trained Japanese operators wrote an anonymous blog about the whole thing – which has been a gold mine for developers). So, while Japan continues cranking out the world’s fastest supercomputers and badass semiconductors and tons of industrial automation robots and some of the [read full post]
August 30, 2011
Here First or Best Here, Industrial Robots, Japan 日本 Tekk, Military Robotics, Robot, Super Computer, Technology, WarBots
Aug 052011
Manufacturing being localized by 3D printing technology has been mentioned here before – the allusion being that the trend taken to a large enough scale could seriously impact China’s hold on the cheap-stuff-making market. BUT, it appears that FOXCONN plans to just go ahead and push that forward on their own with… ROBOTS! Are low-wage Chinese iPhone makers about to become no-wage Chinese iPhone makers? [VIA XINHUA]
August 5, 2011
Industrial Robots, Mobile, Robot, Technology, The Beginning is Near