The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
Astute reader Maurits Kooiman, who is either from the Netherlands or has very, very evil parents, sent in a link to this crazy-assed robot. The thing spins around like some kind of crazed whirling dervish trying to balance itself. Just imagine if you stuck some sharp blades on the end of its arms, the damage [...]
Robot haters, take note. There are just as many people working on helpful, useful robots, like those that aid rescue workers, as on killer bots.
From putting out industrial fires to dealing with explosions and their aftermath, fire fighting is one of the most inherently dangerous occupations in the world.
Now a team of scientists is working [...]
Here’s a great idea. Launch a contest in which the point is to build a killer urban robot. Whee!
Singapore has launched a contest to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions, moving in and out of buildings to search and destroy targets like a human soldier.The country’s Defence Science and Technology [...]
According to Hospital Development, we’re just a few years away from a virtual army of robots taking over our health care system, emptying bedpans, tidying up rooms, and even slicing up gall bladders.
obots that can clean, tidy and even look after patients could be a reality in just three years under an EU-funded project.
Researchers [...]
Pay attention, robert overlords, as this is exactly the sort of things robots should be doing for us humanoids:
RoboDump 1.0
RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.
Robots that kill humans = bad. Robots that amuse us [...]
Are you sure you’re not afraid of robots? You might be after reading this.
Samsung recently unveiled an autonomous sentry robot outfitted with an automatic weapon designed to patrol the DMZ between North and South Korea. The machine can not only recognize humans, but it is also programmed to shoot enemy troops or anyone else it [...]
“This is your captain speaking. If you look out the cabin windows you’ll see Jupiter coming into view. Actually, don’t rush yourselves, because we won’t reach our closest approach for another month. When we pass through perigee, we will be 1.4 million miles from the center of the gas giant and we’ll be accelerating to [...]
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about these days — war in Iraq, climate change, robot uprisings — now the Chinese are blowing up things in space.
According to reports quoted by Space.com, China last week used a land-based ICBM to blow up a weather satellite in orbit. Jeffrey Lewis of Harvard’s Managing the [...]
I’ve tried to keep quiet, minding my own business, but all this robot uprising talk here at Science Fiction Robots is getting out of hand.
Robots are just like people. There are good robots and bad robots. Killer robots and peaceful robots. Happy robots and sad robots.
Why focus on sad robots when you can focus on [...]
That’s the Foster-Miller Talon robot featured above, which is the company’s current most ass-kickingest soldier robot available. Highlights include:
TALON robots can take a punch and stay in the fight. One was blown off the roof of a Humvee in Iraq recently while the Humvee was crossing a bridge over a river. TALON flew off the [...]
