I wouldn't be too worried...
The deciding issue that was ultimatly unacceptable, was the most petruid smell we had ever smelled in our lives.
The closest thing I can think of to describe this smell would be if you've ever gone to a resturant, while thier grease is being sucked out into the big truck, very bad, very very bad. The cat genie is worse.
worlds biggest cat poop aromatherapy diffuser
i don't know if this is a robot...but rather interesting that no power source is needed to make it go:
Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner!
A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. He shows how automata have evolved and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Levy explores many aspects of human relationships—the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotional attachments to animals and virtual pets, and why these same attachments could extend to love for robots. Levy also examines how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed—and will continue to change—as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.
Shocking, eye-opening, provocative, and utterly convincing, Love and Sex with Robots is compelling reading for anyone with an open mind.
but its just cgiI don't care - I'll still buy one - then all I have to do is move somewhere I can drive a cgi car.
Combine that with Google's efforts for artificial intelligence to control their smart search and we have a perfect recipe for skynet. Anyone know where John Connor is?
They will arm and armor those, if they havent already. These are like ground drones.
So what we have here is a cockroach with a microchip strapped to its back.
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The cockroaches have been turned into biobots -- which is kind of a halfway point between a regular organism and a robot -- all for the purpose of saving human lives.
The cockroaches are steered remotely through those sensors that are surgically implanted near their antennae.
Fully autonomous weapons do not yet exist, and major powers, including the United States, have not made a decision to deploy them. But high-tech militaries are developing or have already deployed precursors that illustrate the push toward greater autonomy for machines on the battlefield. The United States is a leader in this technological development. Several other countries – including China, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Russia, and the United Kingdom – have also been involved. Many experts predict that full autonomy for weapons could be achieved in 20 to 30 years, and some think even sooner.
You know, I was thinking the other day that there were two long-running 'prediction' threads in the old core. One was the pre-bubble 'housing-prices-are-going-to-drop-25%' and the other was the 'Terminator Scenario.' If the TS thread is as on-target as the bubble thread was, we're pretty much screwed.As a long term people hater, I am not sure I am exactly opposed to it
>humans aren't needed
On many levels, the best solution -and biggest challenge- lies in population control.
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>population control
Wait! Terminator Scenario. Problem solved!
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto: Exoskeletons Helping Our Soldiers Go the Distance (http://iicleantech.com/blog/2012/03/22/domo-arigato-roboto-exoskeletons-helping-soldiers-distance/)(http://iicleantech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Raytheon-Suit-300x199.jpg)The Raytheon XOS 2 is a military-grade bio-mechanical exoskeleton that demonstrates the culmination of over a decade of research in improving soldiers’ load-bearing capacity without sacrificing speed, strength, and endurance. The Raytheon XOS 2 is designed to assist soldiers with strenuous activities by taking an enormous amount of stress off the muscles and bones of its operator. Bottom line: the suit will enhance average human capacity in both strength and endurance. Soldiers will soon be able to perform their duties more efficiently and over longer periods of time, while requiring shorter and less frequent rest periods
Japan’s robot suits now closer to reality with Power Jacket MK3 (http://japandailypress.com/japans-robot-suits-now-closer-to-reality-with-power-jacket-mk3-0931931)(http://cdn.japandailypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/23i681hg1346896sd-280x175.png)
The frame of the exoskeleton is made of aluminum and carbon fiber, keeping it light enough at 25 kilograms. The robotic suit is tall at over 7 feet, and it uses a master-slave system where the users’ limbs are strapped to motorized robotic joints. As the user moves, the movement drives the motion for the suit’s corresponding joints and limbs. The Power Jacket MK3 has a total of 14 servo motors, and the design for the arms is pretty robust, able to lift as much as 15 kilograms. Sagawa Electronics are, however, limiting the lifting at 2 kilograms for safety reasons. The suit’s construction is also strong enough to handle a quick jog, and the robotic hands’ action and feel are delicate enough to pick up an egg without cracking it.
This isn’t the first time the Pentagon has played with weaponized robots, but earlier experiments proved such machines weren’t ready for primetime after some of them moved without commands.
Google wants a piece of the defense contracts…wonder how making war machines will work for their "do no evil" stance…
Terminator-maker 'Cyberdyne Inc' lists on Tokyo stock exchange (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/27/cyberdyne_tokyo_exoskeleton_terminator_startup/)
readers of a more fatalistic disposition may be dismayed, but probably not surprised, to hear that Cyberdyne - the company that invented Skynet and ultimately the murderous "Terminator" machines - has just listed on the Tokyo stock exchange.
(Geneva) – Fully autonomous weapons, or “killer robots,” would jeopardize basic human rights, whether used in wartime or for law enforcement, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today, on the eve of the first multilateral meeting on the subject at the United Nations.
“make jokes, dance and amuse people,”
The partially autonomously controlled missiles, or so-called "killer robots", will be used for airborne strikes for its new fighter jets and have the ability to identify targets and make decisions to kill without human interference.
Destroy 10 Million Jobs
Destroy 10 Million Jobs
Bill, is that the right link?Oops. :o It is now.
.It’s 6-foot-2, with laser eyes and vise-grip hands. It can walk over a mess of jagged cinder blocks, cut a hole in a wall, even drive a car
The thing with robots...making them more "human" looking makes me freak out more.
Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”.
The letter, presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was signed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis and professor Stephen Hawking along with 1,000 AI and robotics researchers.
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The authors argue that AI can be used to make the battlefield a safer place for military personnel, but that offensive weapons that operate on their own would lower the threshold of going to battle and result in greater loss of human life.
This is a really long post, but I thought it was worth the time. I recommend part 2 (the future).
Basically, artificial super intelligence will happen between 2022 and 2075 (2040 most think it'll be here). We'll either become immortal or extinct.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
If Kurzweil and others who agree with him are correct, then we may be as blown away by 2030 as our 1750 guy was by 2015
Ergophobe, probably more like what a 1940s guy would react to today.
I'm a little younger (43)
Interesting read, although not quite as horrific as the headline.
Hawking has been warning about AI (and alien life) for many years now. I personally believe that the likelihood of AI coming about is much more likely than a visit from another planet.
I see we've already started to bully the robots. This won't end well.
Reddit gets it: http://imgur.com/z8nxId1
The robots are 3D-printed in one single step using functional hydraulics.
“All you have to do is stick in a battery and motor, and you have a robot that can practically walk right out of the printer,” said Daniela Rus, director at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
The $599 (£410) robot rolls around on two wheels in the shape of a vacuum cleaner ball with cameras an oblong head extruding from the top with a colour touchscreen displaying a face with emotions. It is capable of independent movement, can respond to voice commands and has both entertainment protocols for keeping kids amused and home care systems to help look after older people.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientists-taught-a-robot-to-hunt-prey-deep-learning-visualise
"One could imagine future luggage or shopping carts that follow you..."
created distance between the operator and the target -- much like a drone strike.
no PTSD
Amazon has been awarded a patent for "docking stations" for its delivery drones that will be built on tall structures such as lampposts or churches and allow the unmanned machines to recharge and pick up packages.
"The docking stations may incorporate a number of features to enable UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to fly longer routes, to fly routes more accurately, and to provide shelter during adverse conditions," Amazon's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing said.
The ride-hailing company said Thursday that customers will be able to opt into the test program, which will use autonomous Ford Fusions summoned by the touch of a smartphone. Although other companies are testing self-driving cars on public roads, this is the first time the public will get access to them.
Technology has gotten so cheap that it is now more economically viable to buy robots than it is to pay people $5 a day.
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We need to be thinking hard, now, about technological unemployment. About the fact that while technology provides benefits to billions, the economic gains tend to be concentrated for a few. About the fact that we made up the idea of a job in the first place.
This is not a task for a small group of intellectual elites. This needs to be a collective conversation, from first principles: What should our global socioeconomic system look like?
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law last week that allows autonomous vehicles to operate on public roads with no driver, steering wheel or human-operated breaks.
The new guidelines, released Friday, state that companies can test autonomous vehicles without a driver if they include a two-way communication link between the car’s passengers and a “remote operator.” The vehicle must also meet federal standards, including a 15-point safety assessment.
This might interest NFFC. Sewing robot. http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/technology/robots-garment-manufacturing-sewbo/index.html
No lines, no checkout, no registers, no jobs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc)
bad time for people with moderate intelligence.
At the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carlson was booed for saying that the journalists at The New York Times care about accuracy.
I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it. It's something I'll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who's smarter than I am, and I shouldn't have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I'm enraged by it, actually.
That said, for the type of people who's most marketable assets are a capable body
He was reprimanded by Jon Stewart years ago on CrossFire for making a mockery of news. Maybe it had an impact?
On March 7, her husband, William Holbrook, filed a wrongful death complaint (pdf) in Michigan federal court, naming five North American robotics companies involved in engineering and integrating the machines and parts used at the plant: Prodomax, Flex-N-Gate, FANUC, Nachi, and Lincoln Electric. Holbrook's job involved keeping robots in working order. She routinely inspected and adjusted processes on the assembly line at Ventra, which makes bumpers and trailer hitches. One day, Holbrook was performing her regular duties when a machine acted very irregularly, according to the lawsuit reported in Courthouse News. Holbrook was in the plant's six-cell "100 section" when a robot unexpectedly activated, taking her by surprise. The cells are separated by safety doors and the robot should not have been able to move. But it somehow reached Holbrook, and was intent on loading a trailer-hitch assembly part right where she stood over a similar part in another cell. The machine loaded the hardware onto Holbrook's head. She was unable to escape, and her skull was crushed. Co-workers who eventually noticed that something seemed amiss found Holbrook dead. William Holbrook seeks an unspecified amount of damages, arguing that before her gruesome death, his wife "suffered tremendous fright, shock and conscious pain and suffering." He also names three of the defendants -- FANUC, Nachi, and Lincoln Electric -- in two additional claims of product liability and breach of implied warranty. He argues that the robots, tools, controllers, and associated parts were not properly designed, manufactured or tested, and not fit for use.
Dubai police added a robotic officer to its force, and plans to add more over the next few years. (Don’t worry, it doesn’t have a gun.)
...The city plans on recruiting a lot of the bots so they eventually make up 25 percent of the force by 2030.
The police department's one robot already patrolled the Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference in the United Arab Emirates this week. Next up is patrolling the massive Dubai Mall, which posted that the robot loves selfies and will be around all week.
The robot, first launched in 2011, is from Spanish company PAL Robotics. The robocop is a REEM, a full-sized humanoid robot that can speak and understand several languages.
I suppose everyone has seen this
There's more than one way to kill.
https://imgur.com/gUJxpmD
No sleep tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrF4tAzMthw
Be sure to watch the office navigation.
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robot dog goes on sale in 2019 (https://www.cnet.com/news/boston-dynamics-spotmini-robot-dog-goes-on-sale-in-2019/)
The world's largest retailer by revenue will soon have autonomous robots scrubbing the floors of hundreds of Walmart stores across the U.S. Walmart will deploy 360 floor-scrubbing robots armed with computer vision and AI capabilities in hundreds of its stores by the end of January 2019, the company said this week in a joint press release with San Diego-based AI company Brain Corporation.
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Walmart has already deployed robots to take over other work usually performed by human employees, including using shelf-scanning robots in dozens of US stores to search for inventory and prices while also locating misplaced items.
Walmart is looking to rely more and more on automation in the future — an evolution that could free up current employees to perform more efficient, higher value tasks, but which some critics worry could also result in lower wages and fewer jobs at a company that is currently America's largest private employer with over 1.5 million paid workers.
Ground based delivery dogs make more sense than delivery drones.
UK: world's first raspberry-picking robot set to work
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/26/world-first-fruit-picking-robot-set-to-work-artificial-intelligence-farming
Elon Musk tells a room full of Air Force pilots: 'The fighter jet era has passed'
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/elon-musk-says-the-fighter-jet-era-has-passed.html
Airburst EMP.
Minimum-Wage Blowback
These are just "early adopter" rates and will come down quickly.
But we often spend so much time talking about the potential for robots to take our jobs that we fail to look at how they are already changing them — sometimes for the better, but sometimes not. New technologies can give corporations tools for monitoring, managing, and motivating their workforces, sometimes in ways that are harmful.
A killer robot profoundly changes the calculus for the Mossad.
The organization has a longstanding rule that if there is no rescue, there is no operation, meaning a foolproof plan to get the operatives out safely is essential. Having no agents in the field tips the equation in favor of the operation.
But a massive, untested, computerized machine gun presents a string of other problems.
The first is how to get the weapon in place.
Israel chose a special model of a Belgian-made FN MAG machine gun attached to an advanced robotic apparatus, according to an intelligence official familiar with the plot. The official said the system was not unlike the off-the-rack Sentinel 20 manufactured by the Spanish defense contractor Escribano.
But the machine gun, the robot, its components and accessories together weigh about a ton. So the equipment was broken down into its smallest possible parts and smuggled into the country piece by piece, in various ways, routes and times, then secretly reassembled in Iran.
“We are living in a dystopian future, where we debate whether the police may use robots to execute citizens without a trial, jury, or judge,” said Tifanei Moyer, senior staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Moyer leads the organization’s work on police misconduct and militarization.