Man Controls Cybernetic Hand With Thoughts | Slashdot Re-Post

+———————————————————————————————-+ | Man Controls Cybernetic Hand With Thoughts                                                   | |   from the i-thought-john-connor-destroyed-that-thing dept.                              ... [Read More...]

Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo: Slashdot Re-Post

+———————————————————————————————-+ | Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo                                                 | |   from the someone-will-need-to-nurse-the-elderly dept.                                  ... [Read More...]

Rise of the Robot Squadrons

Slashdot Re-post +———————————————————————————————-+ | Rise of the Robot Squadrons                                                                                                     | |   from the... [Read More...]

Elder-Assist Robotic Suits, From the Real Cyberdyne

Re-post from Slashdot +—————————————————————–+ | Elder-Assist Robotic Suits, From the Real Cyberdyne                                          | |   from the how-do-you-know-it’s-not-the-same-one dept.                                       | |   posted by timothy on Sunday... [Read More...]

More Robots

Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their capabilities, interfaces and roles in society. Unmanned vehicles fly above war zones, telerobotics give humans a broader virtual presence and humanoid robots gain more parity with humans, refining their movements and responses. Collected here are a handful of recent photographs of robotics in use around the... [Read More...]

Military Researchers Develop Corpse-Eating Robots

From the file marked “Evidently, many scientists have never seen even one scary sci-fi movie”: The Defense Department is funding research into battlefield robots that power themselves by eating human corpses. What could possibly go wrong? Editor Note: Yet more evidence that we are indeed heading down the path of Skynet and Terminators. :p  Read More →

Robots of War

In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction — that now may not be so fictitious.  http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html#top  Read More →

Terminators are coming!

The New York Times reports on research to develop autonomous battlefield robots that would ‘behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans.’ The researchers claim that these real-life terminators ‘can be designed without an instinct for self-preservation and, as a result, no tendency to lash out in fear. They can be built without anger or recklessness… and they can be made invulnerable to… “scenario fulfillment,”... [Read More...]