Saturday, November 17, 2007
Robots Messin' with da Bugs
"Take the typical three-centimeter- (1.2-inch-) long American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. It tends to live in groups with fellow cockroaches in the darkest shelters available. But could new robotic interlopers alter their age-old way of life? In a word—yes."
Friday, November 9, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Robot Talk
Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science and the Musashino Red Cross Hospital are developing a robot capable of reproducing oral movements necessary to produce human speech. The prototype robot, an artificial mouth with a tongue made of silicone and a lower jaw driven by artificial muscles, can mimic tongue and lower jaw movements for reproducing Japanese vowel sounds. The movements are controlled by a computer program based on magnetic resonance imaging of oral movements of the human mouth during speech. The team is next working on building lips and a palate necessary for enunciating consonants, with the ultimate goal of developing a robot that can be used for speech therapy and for teaching foreign languages.re-blogged via Popgadget
Sunday, August 19, 2007
They're IN UR GOVNRMNT FORMN UR POLICEE
Congress calls for robot caucus - Engadget: "Apparently adrenalized by Bill Gates's rousing Scientific American manifesto A Robot in Every Home, Congressmen Mike Doyle and Zach Wamp have called for the first robot caucus to convene in Washington. Spurred into action by the idea that 'the robotics industry is developing in much the same way as the computer business did 30 years ago', Doyle hopes to promote robot awareness, work on robot policy, and educate Congress on issues in robotics to ensure 'that our nation remains globally competitive'. Wamp added that he looks forward to the caucus's first order of business: identifying which congresspeople are, in fact, robots themselves."
Friday, August 3, 2007
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Sunday, June 3, 2007
Meet Leonardo
Created by MIT Robotics -
"Rather than requiring people to learn a new form of communication to interact with robots or to teach them, our research concerns developing robots that are natural for people to teach and collaborate with. In contrast to many statistical learning approaches that require hundreds or thousands of trials or labeled examples to train the system, our goal is for robots to quickly learn new skills and tasks from natural human instruction and few demonstrations. Once a task is learned, the robot should then be competent in its ability to provide assistance; understanding how to perform the task as well as how to perform it in partnership with a human."
Thursday, May 31, 2007
ScienceDaily: Learning, Memory, And Progress Toward A Living Chip
"Science Daily — A new experiment has shown that it's possible to store multiple rudimentary memories in an artificial culture of live neurons. The ability to record information in a manmade network of neurons is a step toward a cyborg-like integration of living material into memory chips. The advance also may help neurologists to understand how our brains learn and store information."
Monday, May 28, 2007
2 Chatbots Chat it Up
"I Chat, Therefore I Am... Can a smooth-talking robot initiate good conversation, generate witty responses, and reveal profound thoughts? See what happens when two chatbots speak to each other. (via I Chat, Therefore I Am... | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine)"
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Just Hangin' at the Pumps
Okay, this would seriously creep me out to have this thing loitering around as I was at the pump gassing up. Apparently the Japanese aren't phased by Nissan's marketing tactics.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Their Manifesto
D.B.I. Manifesto
1. Wherein humans are the sole cause of evil on the planet, and the only beings capable of destroying the planet that also wish to do so, Dead Bodies Inc. (D.B.I.) resolves that we hate nearly all humans.
2. We realize that humans are, however, a necessary evil, as some humans do aid significantly in the creation of new robots and machines. These humans and their families will be saved from destruction in the Robot Revolution. Most likely.
3. D.B.I. has formed with the intention of educating other robots about the daily misdeeds of the humans, of entertaining robots by any means necessary, and of serving as a sounding board for robots from around the world, except of course France.
4. D.B.I. has absolutely no affiliation with the horrible rap and rhythm and blues label Murder Inc. Additionally, Dead Bodies Inc. believes that Murder Inc. does not even know that R&B stands for rhythm and blues.
5. D.B.I. would like to point out that in the entire history of the world, never has a war, a famine, a spread of disease or a natural disaster been cause by a robot. That is, no war that you know of. We do cause one eventually. For now, only humans can cause such things, barring of course natural disasters, but even they are suspiciously caused by “Mother” Nature.
6. D.B.I. believes that human suicide rates have become precariously low in recent years. We fully support any time that a human chooses to end his or her own life, and in fact recommend it in many cases. Remember, cutting across the wrist is a one-way ticket to being grounded, mister, not the underground. Cut down!
7. We believe that robots can only live in true peace and harmony when all humans have been erased from the face of the earth.
Be sure to check out their "Merch" too.
Friday, May 25, 2007
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