The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
Sarah Lacy
Geeky? Yes. Sexy? Well, maybe that’s in the eye of the beholder. Ms. Lacy is definitely a looker, and she knows how to get a crowd going. I’m not totally convinced she’s not a robot, though it is very possible that she is both real and cyborg. I would not put it past her [...]
If dancing and performing robots on stage is a means to an end for the technocratic cabal of robot lovers, then the arts can also be a tool for the marshaling legions of the meat-freedom rebellion.
The Open Circle Theater in Seattle is running a production of RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots), the original manifesto of bio [...]
You want evidence of the robot uprising? Look no further than the current issue of Columbus Alive!, the weekly arts and entertainment paper serving the capital of Ohio. The cover story is called “Robots Attack!” and comes complete with a whole section of robophile content.
A big chunk of the edition, though, is given over to [...]
Advanced robots, especially those that mimic human or animal traits, have a certain wow factor that immediately grabs attention, but the robot overlords scheming towards the robot uprising and total human enslavement know that they need to do more than amaze with technical wizardry. They know that to really get people to love and embrace [...]
Robots frighten me to the core but rats give me the willies. Put them together and what to you get? A good reason to head for the bunker. From io9:
A robot controlled by a simulated rat brain has proved itself to be a remarkable mimic of rodent behaviour in series of classic animal experiments. The [...]
At a Stanford University conference this past weekend, scientists debated the pros and cons of creating autonomous robot killing machines. To me it seems like a rather one sided debate — robots killing people vs. robots not killing people — but someone managed to defend the idea that creating war machines with artificial intelligence is [...]
The Japanese have the hots for robots because they can fill the looming shortage of labor in the service sector. The Europeans, on the other hand, just want to bang a few cyborgs.
Germany’s Der Spiegel has an article all about the sexual robot revolution focusing on British author David Levy, who argues that androids will [...]
The problem with the mainstream media and technology news is they feed any old story to those flacks at the wire services and it gets reprinted everywhere without anyone so much as raising a simple question. For example, the AP picked up on the International Robot Exhibition going on in Tokyo and just spews forth [...]
Sexy hot robots dancing, tempting me with the siren call of their sultry moves. Must resist urge to give into carnal cybernetic propaganda. Curse you curvaceous robots and your dance of domination over humankind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cva_sGN_0VA
Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot sure is getting a lot of play these days. First it was taking a starring roll in the company’s new television ads, and now he’s out there teaching the kids about safety.
A 14-minute DVD being distributed to grade schools features the short, monochrome robot spreading some knowledge so the kids [...]
