Human employment is soon going to drastically & quickly change. For sure China’s in trouble, but on the whole is this good or bad? Here a young guy says we’re doomed, and an old guy says it’s all going to be cool. Weird, right?
Feb 142012
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
Nov 242011
Yasakawa Japan has retrofitted one of their robots with an off the shelf MS Kinect. And just like that, telepresence takes a huge leap forward.
November 24, 2011
CareBots, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Internet, Japan 日本 Tekk, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Microsoft, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Labor, Technology & Work, Telepresence, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Nov 102011
If ASIMO doesn’t keep improving, becoming more adaptive and autonomous, I see many late nights with a little white robot waking from a terrible nightmare screaming: “Help, Help! PETMAN is coming to get me!
November 10, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ASIMO, CareBots, Here First or Best Here, Honda, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Robots, Japan「日本」, Medical Robots, Military Robotics, Robot, Technology
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
Oct 142011
Through the Sci-Fi Nomenclature Committee approved processes of a brain interface known as “ECoG,” the science guys have shown that, even after 7 years without any actual movement, the brain is still sending signals for the body to do so. And these signals can move a robot.