The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
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 [...]
The best thing you can say about robots is that they look like robots. They are easily identifiable as robots, and once identified their threat can be assessed and they can be deactivated or destroyed as needed. Oh sure, some robots might look a whole lot like human beings, but we have tests we can [...]
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 [...]
You might think this video from The Onion about robots ruling the world is pretty funny (and it is), but if we keep down the road we’re going, it might turn into science fact.
In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power?
Want to know what’s scarier than a hoard of robots coming to tear your fragile flesh from your brittle bones? A robot that’s controlled by a monkey brain. Now this is something I never thought I’d have to face, but this is the 21st century age of science fiction madness come to life, so I [...]
The Terminator movie series supposes a future in which a powerful, centralized computer takes control of robots and other machines in order to wage war on the human race. Science fiction fantasty, you say? Not if the robot elite have their way.
In an article on CNET about personal robots — you know, that cute Pleo [...]
Some robot scientists think they have a fertile idea on how to power their mechanical creations by impregnating them with the power of sperm.
Researchers at Cornell are studying the chemical processes that give spermatozoa their endless energy and have managed to attach three of the enzymes to a chip. If the work is successful, I [...]
