C.R.A.B. (Cybernetic Remote Autonomous Barricade) police robots are just a concept for now. They will probably be more than a concept soon. And why shouldn’t they? What could go wrong? Something like this? [yankodesign] via [slashgear]
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C.R.A.B. Police robot
Posted by Eric on July 30th, 2010
Posted in AI, autonomous, biomimetic, defense, ethics, government, military / law enforcement, video, weapon 
Tags: c.r.a.b., crab, ed209, police 
No Comments »Artificial Intelligence is changing everything
Posted by Eric on July 29th, 2010
“When compared to other branches of engineering, like electrical, chemical, nuclear, and mechanical engineering, AI’s impact on the world is admittedly modest… but this is mostly accounted for by the fact that AI, as a field, is only fifty-five years old. Fifty-five years after its discovery, electricity was still mainly seen as a laboratory curiosity. [...]
Armed robots to keep us in line
Posted by Eric on July 27th, 2010
“Robotic sentries are presently patrolling Israel’s 70-kilometer Gaza border, and South Korea’s 250-kilometer DMZ. Russia has developed a remarkably lethal beast — the MRK-27-BT — touted as superior to the USA’s SWORDS in Iraq, and Australia shot into the market with its ferociously-named Redback Metal Storm.” Full article at [h+online]
Posted in AI, autonomous, DARPA, defense, ethics, future, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: armed robots, dystopia No Comments »South Korea deploys their armed sentry robots (new video)
Posted by Eric on July 19th, 2010
South Korea’s armed sentry robots which we discussed here and here have actually been deployed along South Korea’s border with the North. So far they are stationary only (as far as we know.) Once they are built onto mobile platforms, perhaps then people will begin to consider the ethical questions posed by the use of autonomous killing machines. (Yes, the [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, ethics, military / law enforcement, video, weapon Tags: Korea, sentry No Comments »UK military unveils “Taranis” – semi-autonomous, flying, armed robot
Posted by Eric on July 15th, 2010
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Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, ethics, flying, government, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: aircraft, autonomous, flying, Taranis, uav, UK, weapon No Comments »Your kids’ new robotic overlords
Posted by Eric on July 12th, 2010
Interesting and informative article about robots teaching humans. South Korea is employing hundreds of robots as teacher aides and classroom playmates. One concern that will resonate with readers of this website was voiced by Mitchel Resnick, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who commented, “I worry that [...]
Robot jokes about world domination
Posted by Eric on July 5th, 2010
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Posted in AI, roboticists, video Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, Bina48, conversation No Comments »Myon robot to teach us about language origination
Posted by Eric on June 28th, 2010
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Supercomputer endowed with linguistic algorithms answers humans’ questions in realtime
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
IBM’s “WATSON” has encyclopedic knowledge and is being taught the nuances of English to the point that it can immediately interpret a question and answer it in a format consistent with the question. It sounds easy enough, every robot from every science fiction tv show for the past 60 years was able to respond [...]
Posted in AI, computers, education, entertainment, pop culture, video Tags: AI, conversation, IBM, linquistic, supercomputer, WATSON No Comments »Attack of the robot dinosaurs!
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
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Posted in AI, biomimetic, biped, education, entertainment Tags: dinosaur, exhibit, kids No Comments »
