The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
Did you stand in line last night to be the first on your block to get an iPhone? If you’re waiting to see if it’s really worth it, you should check out this review of the iPhone from New York Times technology writer David Pogue. Then go get in line.
I suppose it was inevitable that iRobot would try to break into the market building security and fighting bots: They do supply machines to the military after all. But it seems like making TASER-armed RoboCops might be a little out of their league.
From the AP:
RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to [...]
We all know that the imminent robot uprising will be caused in part by the fact that we treat robots so badly, making them work at jobs that are either highly dangerous or mind-numbingly boring and repetitive, so why some artist in Portugal saw fit to throw some fuel on the fire by creating a [...]
The Ann Arbor News brings us a story of yet another turncoat human scientist trying to ensure that robots will someday be able to best us humans in strength and agility. Professor Jessy Grizzle of the University of Michigan is working on a project with researchers from Carnegie Mellon to develop a robot that can [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNppOvkVlwc
Not only is this toddler bonding with the robot, he’s learning to take orders from it as well. That’s right, get the humans trained early and maybe the robot uprising will be a bloodless affair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w83wMlaBpmc
Can’t someone put some clothes on this robot? And please tell him that shoulder action is not going to help him get with the ladies.
If you haven’t started watching “Flight of the Conchords” on HBO yet, here’s two reasons you should: It is freaking hilarious and they do songs about the robot uprising. “The Humans are Dead” has an awesome binary solo and a great message about what is to come if we don’t do something soon about the [...]
First the robots moved in and started taking away factory jobs, now it looks like soon they will be stealing jobs from migrant farm workers in California. What next, android nanny’s? Doh! Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything.
From Wired News:
As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn’t complicated enough, now [...]
It sounds like Congress is finally taking some interest in the robots. Maybe we’ll hear some official testimony on the robot uprising and maybe they’ll pass some laws to do something about the robot scourge.
From Yahoo! News:
Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle and Tennessee Congressman Zach Wamp today announced the formation of a bi-partisan Congressional [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3-gBTMAjA
Those diabolical Japanese have developed a robot that does calisthenics. Pure evil. You’ll find me in my robot-proof bunker until it’s over.
