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Weaponized UAV Drones in the Hands of Local Police →
The police in Montgomery County – and area north of Houston, Texas – is the first local police in the united States to deploy a drone that can carry weapons. […] He said they are designed to carry weapons for local law enforcement. “The aircraft has the capability to have a number of different systems on board. Mostly, for law enforcement, we focus on what we call less lethal...
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The biped robot which rides on a bicycle - Boing... →
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September 2011
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The Technium: The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement →
A robot/computer cannot possibly do what I do. OK, it can do a lot, but it can’t do everything I do. OK, it can do everything I do, except it needs me when it breaks down, which is often. OK, it operates without failure, but I need to train it for new tasks. Whew, that was a job that no human was meant to do, but what about me? My new job is more fun and pays more now that...
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Autonomous Flying Robots Flock Like Birds | Wired... →
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A future for drones: automated killing - The... →
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Robotic Labor Taking Over the World? You Bet –... →
maybe we can be like their dogs or something
Sep 15th
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I am not a robot, I am a unicorn! →
alexanderpf: This week, Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab posted a video that shows what happens when a robot chats with another robot. The result? A curious conversation that goes from eccentric to existential. Robert Siegel talks to Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who helped set up the experiment. Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious...
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August 2011
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Swarmanoid project →
swarmanoid was not the beginning, but rather the beginning of the end…
Aug 26th
Boeing Co. tests submarine drone off Santa... →
as a former submariner, i am both happy and sad to see robotic sub drones. okay, i’m not sad.
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Hacker News | We’re not going to have a jobless... →
the future of work, leisure, & will robots take all our jobs?
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HIRO, a Robot That Learns and Acts on Its Own -... →
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China's Answer To Inflation: SkyNet - Foxconn... →
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July 2011
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Robots →
The Actroid androids are part of a new generation of robots, artificial beings designed to function not as programmed industrial machines but as increasingly autonomous agents capable of taking on roles in our homes, schools, and offices previously carried out only by humans. The foot soldiers of this vanguard are the Roomba vacuums that scuttle about cleaning our carpets and the cuddly...
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6 Shocking Ways Robots Are Already Becoming Human... →
(humor) (also true) via cracked.com
Jun 25th
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Future of jobs in a world filled with automation... →
Roboticist Hans Moravec predicts that by 2020, robots will simulate the intelligence of a monkey. That may not seem smart, but with adequate software, it will be intelligent enough to perform most of today’s jobs. And here’s the “killer-ap” – future ‘bots can build labor-free copies of themselves increasing their numbers exponentially. By mid-2020s, some predict, humanoids could outnumber...
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Interview with Dan "Robopocalypse" Wilson - Boing... →
looks like a good book!
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Machines will be our equal: Apple founder →
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On the Finance 'Bots →
For individual investors, trading with algorithms has been a boon: Today, they can buy and sell stocks much faster, cheaper, and easier than ever before. But from a systemic perspective, the stock market risks spinning out of control. Even if each individual algorithm makes perfect sense, collectively they obey an emergent logic—artificial intelligence, but not artificial human intelligence.
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The Year in Robotics 2009 →
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WatchWatch
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