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I have opted to resume posting to Robotic Revolt and in doing so have chosen to move it to a more friendly format. You can now find Robotic Revolt over on Tumblr - HERE.

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."

Robotic Tenacity

Check out this video of the HRex robot as it covers all kinds of terrain...HERE.

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

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."

Prepare to laugh your ass off...

They've Joined the Workforce

Human resource agency hires Wakamaru robot receptionists via cribcandy

Think of what this guy could do in a lab with some funding...

Pleo

Pleo is available for pre-order to ship in October. via NOTCOT

Great, now they're ridin' our Segways

Illegal In Tennessee: HUBO, the First Robot to "Ride" a Segway - Gizmodo

Creepy Baby Bot

Creepy Japanese Baby Robot

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."

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."

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)"

Numenta - Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived?

Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)

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.

KornTech Rogun robot recognises faces, friend or foe

via Engadget

Communist Robot - Where do you stand on the future?

List of Robots

Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us