The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
Alright, maybe not everything that robots do is 100% pure evil. Take for example this performance of The Nutcracker by several warehouse automation bots from KIVA Systems. It is pretty sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdmtya8emMw
On the other hand, maybe this is just the first step by KIVA Systems towards automating the entire Christmas season. May your holiday be joyous [...]
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 [...]
There’s been a fair amount of discussion among the roboto illuminati the past few years about granting robots the rights and privileges of all citizens. Obviously you’ll find no sympathy for that sort of thinking around here, and as evidence for why, check out this video of former President Bill Clinton being heckled by a [...]
We warned about this earlier; please to all parents do not buy robot toys for your children this Christmas. Please!
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 [...]
No I’m not talking about Robot Santa from Futurama, but I am worried that robots are threatening our cherished holiday. Every year a new crop of robot toys hit the shelves in time for the Christmas buying season, and this year two of the hot sellers are expected to be the i-Sobot from Takara/Tomy and [...]
I guess if humanity is destined to be enslaved by cyberbots then we might as well have a drink and toast our last days of meat freedom. Yes Roboexotica, the annual bacchanal of cocktail-mixing robots, is getting underway in Vienna. The carnival of booze-fueled robo-propaganda will pave the way for the great silicon uprising with [...]
Dissatisfied with guitar playing in the meat world, instrument maker Gibson has come up with a solution that is music to the ears of the pro-robot brigade: A robotic guitar.
Well, they call it the Robot Guitar but there’s not a lot of cybernetics involved; all it really does is automatically tune itself, which is [...]
Or maybe I should say disaster looms closer on the horizon now that some flunky from Google has decided to throw his options bonanza behind an open source robot project.
Scott Hassan, one of the architects of the Googlemister, is funding a startup called Willow Garage with the aim of developing open source technology for [...]
Those clever monkeys at Neiman Marcus have jumped on the robot bandwagon. In its latest “crazy gifts you’ll never buy” catalog, the upscale retailer lists something called Swami, a fortune telling atomoton with artificial intelligence.
Apparently this creepy head in a crystal ball has camera sensors that can recognize your family members and with its [...]
