The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
The one thing I find very creepy about robot makers — besides their obvious death wish (why else would they be trying to perfect the means of humanity’s destruction?) — is the whole God complex they must have. Creating a new form of “life” from an inanimate object and making it act sort of “human” [...]
A lot of this video concerns itself with a robot that climbs a rope, which is cool — I guess — but also kinda creepy, but the best part is the fighting robots that actually seem to mimic two drunk fighting Irishmen.
What makes humans and other sentient beings different from other creatures? We can visualize ourselves and our place in the world and then form a plan of action. And for some that plan involves creating robots with the same power of self realization, which will beget smarter robots, until eventually humanity is put to the [...]
If the robot uprising were to happen today, how much of a fight would we put up. Seriously, most of the people in this country are so fat and out of shape they’d never last a minute in a fight. And now that robots are learning to run and jump, we’re at even more of [...]
I’m not sure I understand or appreciate the technological achievement of creating a robot monkey that channels the late Roy Orbison sining “Crying,” but it’s kinda cool. No, strike that, it’s kinda creepy, actually. It also puts a disturbing wrinkle in my world view about the relationship between monkey’s and robots, one that was formed [...]
This video comes via a post at Mr. Future (by way of BoingBoing) about Maywa Denki, a Japanese art and design company that has built an army of musical robots bent on world domination — or at least #1 with a bullet.
With all these robot musicians and singers popping up everywhere lately, maybe it’s [...]
A prescient warning from Andrew Thompson to all the kids out there. Don’t trust robots, kids, they’re out to kill you. (Thanks to BoingBoing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QU-AR4YtNY
We hear all the time about new robot innovations meant to make our lives easier and better, but this would be one service I’d rather not leave to the machines, thank you. Not even the Japanese, bless their hearts, use actual robots to tend to their bathroom hygiene. Though it would insure the efficient use [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlnvnF4dl8
If we have to have our society overrun by robots, please tell me they won’t all be as annoying and creepy as Robopanda.
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.
