Hadn’t seen this yet, recording for posterity.
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Thanks Ian! He envisions that people will turn to robots for the illusion of a living presence to satisfy their emotional needs. One of those future products is the so called “Funktionide“. It is an amorph object whose intention is to provide the owner with an atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. In the visions [...] Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics Lethal military robots are currently deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ground-based robots like QinetiQ’s MAARS robot (shown here), are armed with weapons to shoot insurgents, appendages to disarm bombs, and surveillance equipment to search buildings. Robots with a set of ethical guidelines, [...] I’ve upgraded my wordpress install and reskinned the website, and as you can see I need to make some new title bars to give the blog the character and style it deserves. The theme I am using (Atahualpa) is just incredible, and it will let me cycle through title images. I want to generate a [...] when it is so obvious I am right? From Robot Scientists Think for Themselves At Aberystwyth University in Wales, Ross King and colleagues have created a robot called Adam that can not only carry out experiments on yeast metabolism but also reason about the results and plan the next experiment. It is the world’s first example of a [...] |
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