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...]

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...]

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 →