Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
DARPA Developing Fast Running Robot
November 15th, 2011Via: Wired: Today’s robots move about as fast as your grandma’s morning mall-walking group. Tomorrow’s robots will move as fast as Usain Bolt — all thanks to limbs modeled on ostrich legs. That’s exactly the point, according to the Darpa-funded researchers behind a collaborative effort underway at MIT and the Florida Institute of Human and […]
Robot Workers Take Over Warehouses
November 10th, 2011Don’t miss the video. Via: CNN: A “startup kit” of robots would cost $1 million to $2 million, and a large warehouse operation with 1,000 robots costs $15 million to $20 million. Setting up the software and grid systems inside the warehouse requires six months of planning, simulated modeling and testing. Then logistics managers must […]
Foxconn Wants to Build “Intelligent Robotics Kingdom” to Replace Human Workers with Robots
November 7th, 2011I love how they mention that this facility will create jobs! Yeah, 2000 jobs for people who are tasked with figuring out how to eliminate millions of other people’s jobs. This is definitely one for your Arbeit Macht Frei file folder. Via: Cnet: iPhone maker Foxconn aims to manufacture its own robots and automation equipment […]
Cordon Multi-Target Photo-Radar System
November 1st, 2011Via: Engadget: Go easy on the gas, Speed Racer, because Cordon is on its way. Developed by Simicon, this new speed sensor promises to take highway surveillance to new heights of precision. Unlike most photo radar systems, which track only one violator at a time, Simicon’s device can simultaneously identify and follow up to 32 […]
BostonDynamics PETMAN
November 1st, 2011This is SciFi: And this is… not SciFi: PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by the US Army. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does simple calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. […]
CIA Assassinates 16 Year Old American from Denver
October 30th, 2011Via: Time: A wave of CIA drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda figures in Yemen is stoking widespread anger there that U.S. policy is cruel and misguided, prioritizing counterterrorism over a genuine solution to the country’s raging political crisis. Politics has never been a concern to Sam al-Homiganyi and his fellow teenagers. This month, though, they were […]
Race Against the Machine
October 26th, 2011A few weeks ago, a reader sent me a gift, an ebook from Amazon. I don’t have a physical Kindle reader, so I downloaded the Kindle application for Windows and, in a few seconds, I was able to read the book. I went to look at the Amazon page for the book, A Zombie Prescription […]
Hobby Humanoid Robot Rides Bicycle
October 23rd, 2011Via: Robosavvy: PRIMER-V2 is the name of a robot and his custom bike. Dr.Guero hooked a KHR3HV bipedal robot to a small bike. The robot pedals with his feet at variable speed. The steering is done by the robot hands as with a normal bike, and remote controled by a human. Stability is acheived by […]
‘Rise of the Machines: America’s Jobs Challenge’
October 20th, 2011Via: Reuters: For decades, American workers and their machines advanced in tandem. As companies invested in technology, more workers were needed to operate machines. That relationship is now looking unsteady. Since 1999, business investment in equipment and software has surged 33 percent while the total number of people employed by private firms has changed little. […]
U.S. Troops Will Soon Get Tiny Kamikaze Drone
October 18th, 2011Via: Wired: AeroVironment calls its teeny-tiny killer drone the Switchblade. Essentially a guided missile small enough to fit in a backback and fire at a single foe…
