Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Making Friends With a Robot Named Bina48
July 13th, 2010In case you need some comic relief this morning… I was waiting for an All Your Base related response, but it didn’t happen. Via: New York Times: Ten minutes into my interview with the robot known as Bina48, I longed to shut her down. She was evasive, for one thing. When I asked what it […]
Taranis
July 12th, 2010Via: New Scientist: Sporting a gaping air intake in place of a cockpit, the UK’s first uncrewed fighter aircraft rolled out of a hangar at an airfield in Warton, Lancashire, today. Called Taranis, the wedge-shaped, 8-tonne stealth jet will be able to fly regular drone missions in regions of conflict – but it will also […]
9
June 26th, 20109 on Amazon Via: Wikipedia: The Scientist created the B.R.A.I.N. (or the Fabrication Machine) for peaceful purposes. However, the “Leader of Mankind” took control of the machine and used it to wage war on other humans. Lacking a soul, the machine was corrupted and turned on mankind, wiping them out. The Scientist constructed nine rag […]
Can Baby Robot Help Japan Reproduce?
June 26th, 2010If you know what’s good for you, don’t look into its eyes. HAHA. Via: CNN: Yotaro cries, giggles, and kicks when you tickle him. He sneezes and his nose runs. When he is upset, his rattle calms him down. An average baby — sort of — since Yotaro is a robot. His inventors hope he […]
“Kill TV” in the “Death Star”
June 26th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: They called it the “Death Star” because according to one source who worked inside it, “you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate” somebody. On the walls were television screens, known by the special forces boys as “Kill TV”, where footage from image-intensifier cameras of the enemy being blown […]
Chinese Manufacturers Looking to Replace Workers with Machines
June 22nd, 2010Mmm hmm. New Sharp Flat Panel Factory: No Humans on Assembly Line Etc. etc. etc. Via: Bloomberg: New minimum wage laws, a looser yuan and worker strikes like those affecting Honda Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. are raising costs at plants in China’s Pearl River Delta, leading to increased automation of assembly lines. Foxconn […]
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
June 8th, 2010Via: New York Times: When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: a big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up. […]
The Coming Artilect War
June 3rd, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: If you haven’t heard of Hugo de Garis, AI researcher and Professor at China’s Xiamen University, then you’ve probably never heard of an Artilect either. A contraction of Artificial Intellect, the Artilects are future creations that, according to de Garis, will be immortal, godlike robotic beings that, due to being built on […]
U.S. Department of Defense Wants Autonomous Robot Army by 2034
May 29th, 2010Via: TechnoFascism Blog: “It will save lives”, or so the argument goes. Sending a robot warrior onto the battlefield instead of humans seems like the logical next step in a world moving toward greater efficiency and automation. Everyone seems in love with this new technological trend of automated devastation: from the corporations that will profit […]
IBM Patent Application Describes “Intelligent” Stop Lights That Turn Off Cars
May 27th, 2010What could possibly go wrong? Via: Daily Tech: Running red lights and failure to stop leads to untold numbers of traffic accidents around the world. Sitting at a red light with cars idling also burns fuel that really isn’t needed. IBM has filed a patent application that outlines a system that would turn the motors […]
