tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320357132024-03-07T11:05:41.742-07:00sans sapiensWatching the acceleration towards a robot uprisingScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-39060623477448102152010-10-17T12:10:00.003-06:002010-10-17T12:37:37.553-06:00Robot Proclaims Humans Have No Free Will; Can Be ControledThe Telegraph has an excellent article by a self proclaimed robot who says we have no free will. He It is willing to demonstrate by controlling humans via transcranial magnetic stimulation. The picture caption says it all. The article goes on to debate the concept of free will and the societal implications of having none. I propose that this robot ploy is really intended to convince humans that Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-48436981695154117082010-09-09T17:01:00.003-06:002010-09-09T17:10:27.790-06:00Robot Hands From the Sky Descend, Steal BeerTechnology Review has an interesting piece on a Yale team developing a robotic grabber actuated from a helicopter. The Yale Aerial Manipulator, could be used in spots that are difficult for ground robots to get to, such as high, roughly terrained places, or back yards. It can currently carry objects that weigh up to two kilograms at speeds reaching 130 kilometers an hour. Being that's roughly theScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-51623768095142059312010-08-25T20:35:00.003-06:002010-08-25T20:49:01.668-06:00Out of Work Robots Turn to ArtThe wold of robotics came full circle this month as Audi plants in Europe were shuttered and the robots laid off. Like most workers getting the pink slip in the automotive industry, these bots had to reassess their life situation, and a few have decided to follow their lifelong dream of becoming a famous artist. Next month as part of the London Design Festival an installation will be performed byScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-52361767414049229042010-07-07T10:49:00.003-06:002010-07-07T11:11:09.114-06:00Big Brother, or Big Robot Overlord?As much as it pains me to report on reality TV. This one just epitomizes the downfall of humanity. Apparently the producers of the reality TV show Big Brother have setup this weeks challenge so that the contestants have to compete against the robots for their future. Yes, this saccharine opiate for the mass media zombies will demonstrate in no uncertain terms the consequences of allowing the Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-63220767552872291422010-05-08T18:59:00.003-06:002010-05-08T19:11:30.192-06:00Stab-o-Bot Demoed in GermanySome fearless foolhardy researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have armed a robot with various stabbing and slicing instruments, and have attempted to program it to restrain itself from injuring people.The video is a fascinating series where the robot is given various cutting instruments: scissors, kitchen knives, a screwdriver and a Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-35566301813000085252010-04-19T15:11:00.005-06:002010-04-19T15:26:01.635-06:00Ode to the Uncanny ValleyThanks to IEEE SpectrumScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-25899667452654177572010-04-12T12:49:00.003-06:002010-04-12T13:06:30.660-06:00It's National Robotics Week!Yes, they have a week now. You can rest assured that it won't end there however. Next it will be a month, then a year, then all of time hence.The format of this week is interesting as well. Those wiley robos have devised a scheme that takes advantage of our willingness to nurture our own human children. They have masked this week in the guise of education, of advancement, and fun. Be sure to Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-83817098220845654232009-12-28T21:21:00.002-07:002009-12-28T21:25:59.535-07:00The Future of Soylent Green FactoriesScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-7365875906911452362009-12-01T12:57:00.005-07:002009-12-01T13:08:16.856-07:00First Robot-Human Summit To Be Held In Houston Dec 7The University of Houston may be unwittingly hosting the first ever summit where robots and humans can sit down and find common ground. Rather than the old cycle of robot servitude, uprising, and human destruction researchers are talking about the similarities of pumping blood and oil. Lets hope this lays the groundwork for a mutual understanding between our peoples. Then again, we'd better be onScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-40570282296033091392009-11-24T15:08:00.002-07:002009-11-24T15:11:20.935-07:00Just Don't Tell Them There's No SantaScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-44828684360963797762009-11-18T15:17:00.006-07:002009-11-18T16:20:40.506-07:00IBM Creates Blue Matter from GreyIBM announced today at the SC09 supercomputing conference that they have made "significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain’s low power and energy consumption and compact size."BlueMatter, a new algorithm created in collaboration with Stanford Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-45764420943822972302009-11-04T14:44:00.004-07:002009-11-04T16:06:12.803-07:00From My Cold Dead Hand!Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand of Tel Aviv University's Department of Engineering, working with a team of EU scientists, has successfully wired an artificial hand to existing nerve endings in the stump of a severed arm. The device, called "SmartHand," resembles ― in function, sensitivity and appearance ― a real hand. They fell a little short on the appearance point, but otherwise this sounds like theScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-48083103904974698722009-10-21T10:22:00.002-06:002009-10-21T10:34:43.221-06:00Raytheon Sends Androids to the BattlefieldForbes is running an article on the deployment of a Google Android device for battlefield use.From the description it sounds like they've perverted the social networking features of the new smartphone OS and turned it into a kind of Google Latitude for war. Now, your buddy list can include all your attack drones! Yay!Next up: Drones form a buddy clique and start using missles to poke their old Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-30883745168231366192009-10-14T10:10:00.003-06:002009-11-07T17:30:51.152-07:00Sans Sapiens Robonihilationwire News h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-9695423340643684792009-06-20T13:07:00.002-06:002009-06-20T13:16:51.209-06:00Robot Overlord 1.0PopSci has interesting article on a prototype "Teamworkbot". The goal of this project is to develop bots that can "know how to read their partner's actions and intentions and to predict what he or she will do next as they complete tasks together." Seeing the video however, it seems painfully obvious that the robot just intends to train its human slave. The guy in the demo isn't improving the Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-73494763468971767702009-04-05T13:42:00.001-06:002009-04-05T13:42:46.022-06:00Wired For WarScreaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-38073554465283546292008-10-30T10:03:00.004-06:002008-11-05T20:54:02.221-07:00Robonihilationwire News - Mechagodzilla to Incite Robot Uprising from Japan h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-24449291190495427822008-10-23T23:07:00.002-06:002008-10-23T23:18:02.249-06:00Helpful Canine Robot Assists Elderly, Bites LimbsEL-E robot to smother grandma, crush your AiboMIT Technology Review writes:researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing robots that mimic the relationship between humans and their canine helpers.Industrious robotics researchers have done it again -- those geniuses are sure to put us upon the brink of cataclysm.The latest version of El-E has been upgraded so that, in addition Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-12366770081507404632008-10-21T22:18:00.003-06:002008-10-30T08:05:28.167-06:00Countdown to Singularity Summit 2008Is the Singularity Near?Nobody really knows, but in four days, some folks in San Jose, CA are probably going to tell us we're about 40 years away. Singularity Summit 2008 - the premiere conference for scientists, acceleration watchers and assorted nerds of all varieties - takes place on October, 25th.For those of you just joining the show, the sigularity theory is:The Singularity represents an "Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-66003532195147020952008-10-20T23:03:00.001-06:002008-10-20T23:35:42.999-06:00Talking With Chatbot...Not ReallyFollowing up on the recent Robonihilationwire News Elbot post, Anonymous commented:Check out this Web 2.0 approach to chatbots: http://chatbotgame.com.So that's exactly what I did.You can read my conversation with Chatbot. Thankfully, it possesses neither the witty, malicious smarm of Colossus, nor the sappy, grating charm of SAL 9000. The most likely reason is because Chatbot allows Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-90691097931120959102008-10-17T10:02:00.002-06:002008-10-17T12:39:06.337-06:00Robonihilationwire News - Elbot "Passes" Turing Test, Takes Loebner Prize"Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to fooling people into thinking it was human." h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-76678299192555303032008-10-12T13:45:00.001-06:002008-10-16T17:49:00.498-06:00Robot Uprising: How to Survive itRobot Uprising: How to Survive it Stock markets are crashing, food and fuel prices are rising, and the panic of pandemonium is in the air. All these calamities are but insignificant nuisances compared to the coming technological singularity – the perfect cyborg storm – when the sentient inventions of humanity will finally achieve awareness enough to crush our skulls underfoot (or under-tread). Hugh Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08990174839693171500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-66783425754917306402008-09-21T21:30:00.001-06:002008-09-21T22:36:31.537-06:00Sans Sapiens Robonihilationwire News h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:Sans Sapienshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16721952018228171865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-14477900030341812822007-12-05T16:21:00.000-07:002008-12-11T06:21:23.542-07:00Control Your Cyborg Friends At A DistanceThe IEEE has approved the formation of a working group known as IEEE 802.15 TgBAN. This task group will work toward developing a "body area network" standard, "a standard for short range, wireless communication in the vicinity of, or inside human body."To see a few of the proposed devices that fall into this standard see the group's recent spreadsheet. Also interesting is the proposed security Screaming Harry Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07941297916663664324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32035713.post-37394168262941474652007-11-28T16:05:00.000-07:002008-12-11T06:21:24.030-07:00Robots Feel Pain, Take It Out On DentistsStudents at Japan's Nippon Dental University Hospital will be practicing their drilling skills using a new robot named "Simroid". The humanoid robot has internal sensors that trigger responses such as "ouch" and "it hurts" and a frown when it feels uncomfortable from the dental drill. And as soon as the bot learns a few lessons from humanity, the dentists had better watch out. 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