Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Obama Jokes About Predator Drones; Hundreds of Pakistani Civilians Murdered by Predator Drone Strikes in 2009 Alone
May 4th, 2010You’re killing us, Mr. President, tell us another one. The following is from, US Killed 700 Civilians in Pakistan Drone Strikes in 2009: On June 22, the US struck at a house officials called a “suspected militant hideout,” burying a few locals inside. When others rushed to the scene to rescue them, they launched another […]
Industrial Robots + Industrial Food = ?
May 2nd, 2010Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes,’ According to Law Professor
April 29th, 2010Read the following book and let me know how many Americans have faced international tribunals for those atrocities: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Via: Wired: The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law […]
Humanoid Robot Mahru Mimics a Person’s Movements
April 29th, 2010Via: IEEE: And Now: Japan Plans to Send Humanoid to the Moon by 2015
Petman Biped Robot Walks 4.4 MPH
April 23rd, 2010Also: Boston Dynamics Wins Darpa Contract To Develop LS3 Robot Mule (It’s a Bigger BigDog)
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
WellPoint Routinely Cancels Coverage of Breast Cancer Patients
April 23rd, 2010So, let me understand this: Obamacare is going to require people to pay for insurance that can be canceled as soon as they come down with a serious illness? Get the state to hold a gun at people’s heads to pay into a scam. That sounds like a pretty good gig for those diabolical corporations. […]
Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System
April 20th, 2010Via: Wired: Stopping the pirates of Somalia hasn’t been easy. But when the navies of the world have repelled or killed the hijackers, it’s often involved three elements: helicopters, drones and trained snipers. The U.S. Army is working on a weapon which combines all three. It’s called the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System. It mounts a […]
Adept Quattro: The World’s Fastest Pick and Place Industrial Robot
April 19th, 2010Via: YouTube / Botjunkie: The fastest pick and place robot in the world, the Adept Quattro, demonstrates its skills versus a user controlled moving platform.
Cultivated Play: Farmville
April 19th, 2010Related: The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Via: Future of the Book: Farmville is a free, browser-based video game that is played through one’s Facebook account. Users harvest crops, decorate their farms, and interact with one another, in what is ostensibly a game about farming. While this may sound like a relatively banal game, […]
