“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 »Another incredible flying robot from Festo (Video)
Posted by Eric on November 26th, 2011
Festo has created yet another spectacular biomimetic machine, called Smartbird. (To skip to the flight part of the first video, go to 2:04) https://www.youtube.com/user/FestoHQ
We all knew these were coming – agile, articulate robot spiders
Posted by Eric on November 15th, 2011
If the Worm-Bot can’t slither its way to you in time when you are trapped in a cave-in, perhaps this robot spider could get to you more quickly. (And who doesn’t want to see something like that coming at them when they are already scared and confused?) This spider body prototype is created using a [...]
Posted in biomimetic, domestic, featured, research Tags: 3d printing, biomimetic, Fraunhofer, rescue, robot, sls, spider No Comments »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 [...]
Scientists develop single-molecule electric motor
Posted by Eric on September 10th, 2011
“Bigger is certainly not better when it comes to the world’s first single-molecule electric engine, which measures in at one nanometer wide — for perspective, that lash hanging from your left eye is around 60,000 times larger.” [engadget]
“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 »$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 [...]
Dude.
Posted by Eric on August 2nd, 2010
Okay, this abomination is a new telepresence robot with skin. In other words, if you are having a teleconference with someone, this thing is supposed to add a “human” element to the proceedings. Ummm… I hope they didn’t sink a lot of capital into this idea. Although I’m sure it will be great fun in [...]
Drone deployment in U.S. skies
Posted by Eric on July 23rd, 2010
“In June, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed to expand flights of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, along the Texas-Mexico border for surveillance purposes. Although unmanned aircraft have been used extensively by the military in Afghanistan and Iraq, the FAA has been hesitant to issue flying rights for the pilotless vehicles in the U.S. other [...]
