“Siri grew out of a huge project inside the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), those people who previously gave you the internet and, more recently, a scheme to encourage people to develop driverless cars. Siri’s parent project, called Calo (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) had $200m of funding and was the US’s [...]
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Siri was a DARPA project
Posted by Eric on November 26th, 2011
Posted in AI, available for purchase, DARPA, domestic, pop culture 
Tags: AI, apple, calo, DARPA, iphone, siri 
No Comments »Land- and ground-based robots communicate to track down targets
Posted by Eric on November 26th, 2011
“Two small planes fly low over a village, methodically scanning the streets below. Within minutes, they spot their target near the edge of town. With no way to navigate through the streets, they radio for help. Soon after, a metallic blue SUV begins moving cautiously but purposefully along the dirt roads leading to town, seeking [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, DARPA, defense, ethics, featured, flying, military / law enforcement No Comments »Robot takes over control of human’s arm
Posted by Eric on November 15th, 2011
In this experiment, a robot uses electrodes to control a blindfolded person’s arm and hand, guiding the arm so that they move the ball into position and drop the ball when it is over the net. This process of controlling the muscles via electrodes is called functional electrical stimulation (FES) and has many potential applications [...]
Slow down, CORDON can see us!
Posted by Eric on November 3rd, 2011
The new CORDON system from Peak Gain Systems Inc, can track up to 32 vehicles in up to 4 lanes of traffic, coming and going, monitoring and recording speed, GPS, whether you are driving on the wrong side of the road or in an unauthorized lane, and what you are thinking about. Well it can [...]
Armed and Autonomous
Posted by Eric on September 30th, 2011
PopSci’s Clay Dillow recounts last month’s AUVSI unmanned robotics conference entitled “Armed and Autonomous.” “It all sounds a bit Skynet, but it’s moving forward at a rapid pace…” [more at PopSci]
Posted in AI, autonomous, DARPA, defense, ethics, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: autonomous, DARPA, drone, predator, reaper, weapon No Comments »Robot Bill of Rights
Posted by Eric on September 30th, 2011
We create robots in our image, intentionally making them more and more like ourselves. Making them look more like us, act more like us, think more like us, be more like us. One day, they will be many times more intelligent than we are. If we are going to endow them with human traits, human appearance, [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, biomimetic, ethics, featured, future, government, law Tags: bill of rights, civil rights, Frank Capri, futurist, robots rights No Comments »“ROBOPOCALYPSE” Is Coming In 2013
Posted by Eric on September 10th, 2011
Daniel H. Wilson’s book “Robopocalypse,” published on June 7, will be brought to the silver screen by Stephen Spielberg, slated for release on July 3, 2013. Daniel H Wilson authored “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” in 2005. Full article at [movie-moron]
Posted in AI, domestic, entertainment Tags: robopocalypse, spielberg, uprising, wilson No Comments »Robots Will Rule Men
Posted by Eric on August 30th, 2011
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Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, domestic, education, ethics, featured, future, research, roboticists Tags: Articlect, Cosmist, singularity, Terrans No Comments »Project “SyNAPSE” – Chips Mimic Human Brain
Posted by Eric on August 30th, 2011
IBM has unveiled a computer chip which it claims is inspired by the architecture of the human brain in its design, capable of learning through experience, finding patterns, generating ideas, and understanding the outcomes. “The scientists have built two working prototype designs. Both cores contain 256 neurons, one with 262,144 programmable synapses and the other [...]
$70 Million ‘National Robotics Initiative’
Posted by Eric on June 28th, 2011
Skynet still has a bit more work ahead of it before the walking, shooting cyborgs from James Cameron’s Terminator movies become reality. “You might not know this, but one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on robots,” said President Obama in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center [...]
