Predators and Packbots already function as primitive avatars for pilots and bomb squads, and DARPA’s new Avatar project aims to turn up the resolution. Delineating the consciousness container could get trickier…
Feb 212012
Feb 142012
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?
Jan 172012
China, robots are coming to get your economy.
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 062012
The U.S. is going to seriously cut ground forces (Army & Marines, particularly). The monkey pony show of politics calls it budget cuts and such, but they neglect to point out that grunts are being obviated by bots, man.
Dec 062011
We WANT to see human traits in other entities. Androids aren’t going to reach that point where they’re just human enough to be creepy, yet not quite human enough to accept – they’re going to leap past it.
December 6, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Multimedia, NBI, Prosthetics, Robot, Robot Emotions, Robot Love, Technology, Technology & Work, Telepresence, Transhuman, Transhumanism, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Dec 012011
Kickstarted: Romo the Smartphone Robot! I see real potential here for breathing new life into my old dust-collecting paperweight 3GS. But the cartoon face lovechild of MS Clippy and Cookie Monster has gotta go.
December 1, 2011
AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, iPhone 5, Military Robotics, Mobile, NBI, Robot, Smartphone, Technology, Telepresence
Nov 222011
What are people thinking in the lead-up to an orgasm? Could be a fascinating, lucrative, or a potentially horrifying reveal on human nature. A PhD candidate at Rutgers climbed into an MRI machine an rubbed one out for science. Go science, go!