robot uprising

dangerous air hockey robot sets precedent for overthrow of...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:08:49 -0400

dangerous air hockey robot sets precedent for overthrow of mankind.

nevver: I got you

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:56:16 -0400

nevver:

I got you

new-aesthetic: “The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a new...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:25:49 -0400

new-aesthetic:

“The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a new international campaign by non-governmental organizations calling for a pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous weapons. These are future weapons with full autonomy that would be able to choose and fire on targets without any human intervention.”

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

"Could a machine do something that human soldiers throughout the centuries have rarely done, but..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:36:00 -0400

“Could a machine do something that human soldiers throughout the centuries have rarely done, but sometimes do to very important effect — to refuse to follow orders? I’m convinced that, if these weapons are developed, they’re not just going to be deployed by the United States and Sweden, they’re going to be deployed by dictatorships. They’re going to be deployed by countries that primarily see them as a way of controlling domestic unrest and domestic opposition. I imagine a future Bashar Assad with an army of fully autonomous weapons thirty years from now, fifty years from now. We’ve seen in history that one limit on the ability of unscrupulous leaders to do terrible things to their people and to others is that human soldiers, their human enforcers, have certain limits. There are moments when they say no. And those are moments when those regimes fall. Robotic soldiers would never say no. And I’d like us not to go there.”

- Tom Malinowski (via azspot)

new-aesthetic: Anybots | ANYBOTS® Virtual Presence Systems....

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:23:32 -0400

new-aesthetic:

Anybots | ANYBOTS® Virtual Presence Systems. It’s You, Anywhere… (Previously featured, bears repeating…)

prostheticknowledge: BionicOpter Remote-controlled drone that...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:12:39 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

BionicOpter

Remote-controlled drone that flies and is in the form of a dragonfly - video embedded below:

With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and glide without beating its wings.

More Here

slavin: “Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:47:50 -0400

slavin:

“Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and answer questions”
(by djbadboyrican)

not cool.

new-aesthetic: In what is sure to be only the beginning of...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:15:11 -0500

new-aesthetic:

In what is sure to be only the beginning of human vs. robot confrontations, a surveillance robot belonging to the police was recently shot after a six-hour standoff with a 62-year-old heavily inebriated man.

As reported by the Ohio-based Chillicothe Gazette, officers in the town of Waverly responded to a complaint that shots were fired inside a bedroom in a home and that the homeowner had more guns and was threatening others. Police knocked on the door, called on the phone, and even brought in a trained negotiator, but the man refused to speak to anyone for several hours. So the officers contacted the Pike County Sheriff’s Department and the Highway Patrol’s Strategic Response Team for assistance.

What officers got was two search robots.

First, a camera-equipped robot entered the home to locate the man and the guns. A second larger bot was then sent in, but when the owner spotted it, he opened fire with a small caliber pistol damaging it. Shortly afterward, police finally entered the home and used an electronic stun device to subdue him. After being issued a search warrant, authorities found a number of firearms within the residence, including two AK47 rifles and a 75-round ammunition drum, which is illegal in Ohio.

Ohio Man Charged With Shooting Robot | Singularity Hub)

azspot: xkcd: Time Robot

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:46:27 -0500

azspot:

xkcd: Time Robot

drones on carriers now yuria: Navy News Service - Eye on the...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:39:04 -0500

drones on carriers now

yuria:

Navy News Service - Eye on the Fleet

どうしても、「お尻から真っ逆さま」という次の写真を想像してしまう

Photo

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:00:19 -0500

new-aesthetic: “The world is fundamentally changing; the...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:56:48 -0500

new-aesthetic:

“The world is fundamentally changing; the economic assumptions that currently gird our society will be meaningless in as soon as a few decades. And we’d better get ready to prepare for that shift—if we don’t adjust the current socio-economic structure, we’re going to have mass joblessness, and society-wide chaos. We’re going to need to fundamentally reform not just our policies but our attitudes towards work. We’re going to need to re-engineer the social safety net from the ground up to account for the fact that robots are taking over on the labor front.”

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon Are Worth $1 Trillion, but Only Create 150,000 Jobs. It’s Time to Reassess the Future of Work | Motherboard

Robot Restaurant in Japan!

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:22:29 -0500

Robot Restaurant in Japan!

check out this video, the drone is learning the hand signals of...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:02:12 -0500

check out this video, the drone is learning the hand signals of the flight deck crew so it can better navigate the carrier flight deck. pretty amazing.

Drone vs. Police Car

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:54:50 -0500

Drone vs. Police Car

artandsciencejournal: Vincent Fournier In this series The Man...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:51:07 -0500

Vincent Fournier

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Vincent Fournier

Vincent Fournier

Vincent Fournier

Vincent Fournier

artandsciencejournal:

Vincent Fournier

In this series The Man Machine Vincent Fournier documents current robotic technologies from all over the world. In his works, he is interested in how fiction is become reality. As he states,

“My work was fed with the world of childhood, with some sort of buried memory where reality and fiction are becoming confused, even merge somehow, a world in which things don’t even have a name yet. I remember stories which could have existed, stories in which the truth is dangerously flirting with the false, all together serious and absurd, amusing and disquieting, past or future.”

His photographs focus on narrative. We can see this in the robots playing with children or the robots sitting in an office. Immediately we create a story of a robot living a very human life. Yet at the same time the settings and environments show a futuristic world that is also recognizable as our own. As Fournier states, ”What I find extremely appealing is the aesthetic world of science, machines, geometric patterns.” These scenes look futuristic, yet they are now. To see more of his works. click here.

- Lee Jones

azspot: Jen Sorensen

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:42:19 -0500

azspot:

Jen Sorensen

"“According to a translated page from the Chinese site Techweb, each robot costs between $20,000 to..."

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:38:45 -0500

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“According to a translated page from the Chinese site Techweb, each robot costs between $20,000 to $25,000, which is over three times the average salary of one worker. However, amid international pressure, Foxconn continues to increase worker salaries with a 25 percent bump occurring earlier this year.”

:: programable robots are now cheaper than human beings ::

and within a few short years will be just as capable in handling the intricate tasks of electrical construction.

so my question i guess is – what then?

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- 006 : programable robots are now cheaper than human beings – those jobs at the factory aren’t coming back « T.H.E.J.A.Y.M.O (via new-aesthetic)

The coming drone attack on America

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:17:46 -0500

The coming drone attack on America:

People often ask me, in terms of my argument about “ten steps” that mark the descent to a police state or closed society, at what stage we are. I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both US military and by commercial interests, into US airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in surveillance and with the capacity for weaponization – which is due to begin in earnest at the start of the new year – it means that the police state is now officially here.

In February of this year, Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act, with its provision to deploy fleets of drones domestically. Jennifer Lynch, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that this followed a major lobbying effort, “a huge push by […] the defense sector” to promote the use of drones in American skies: 30,000 of them are expected to be in use by 2020, some as small as hummingbirds – meaning that you won’t necessarily see them, tracking your meeting with your fellow-activists, with your accountant or your congressman, or filming your cruising the bars or your assignation with your lover, as its video-gathering whirs.

Others will be as big as passenger planes. Business-friendly media stress their planned abundant use by corporations: police in Seattle have already deployed them.

1 MILLION ROBOTS TO REPLACE 1 MILLION HUMAN JOBS AT FOXCONN

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:10:42 -0500

1 MILLION ROBOTS TO REPLACE 1 MILLION HUMAN JOBS AT FOXCONN