DARPA is developing a program called “Biometrics-at-a-distance” which will enable sensors to pick up a heartbeat using electrocardiography. It will be able to track up to 10 humans at once, at a distance of over 10 meters, even through walls, doors, floors, or concrete. This will be an incredibly useful tool for soldiers in urban [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
“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. [...]
“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 »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 [...]
There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding the coming trend of using games for work, using games to get people to accomplish tasks. This is one such game, designed to gather data as people interact, which can be used later for modeling actual robot behavior. “The MIT researchers are encouraging as many people [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, education, future, games, research, space, study, testing Tags: behavior model, game, mars, model, play No Comments »Excerpt: “Question: What specific robotic advancements do you anticipate for the next two decades? Answer: Within the next 20 years, we will get to the point that an individual can purchase a general purpose robot. The individual would then tell the robot what it wanted to do, and the robot would learn to perform the [...]
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