It's coming
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19205365


Who gave them guns??

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?

Even robot worms are on the attack -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19200285

Quote from: Chunkford on August 10, 2012, 09:16:14 AM
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?

Horrible thought: Flying robot drones backed by Google's smart results AI.  It would be light gnats whispering wikipedia text in your ear.

Couldn't they get those robot worms to crawl into your ear ala Babelfish? Who has that AltaVista patent now?

Skilled Work, Without the Worker

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html?_r=4&hp&pagewanted=all

Alpha Dog of the military.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/latest-ls3-alphadog-prototypes-get-less-noisy-more-brainy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R7ezXBEBE6U

Those dogs creep the hell outta me.  I don't know why.

I think these walking robots are amazing!  However, while it is amazing, are they really better then a caterpillar tracked machine?

The sound is certainly more scary, which could mean quite a lot when you are heading towards an enemy.

They will arm and armor those, if they havent already. These are like ground drones.

Quote from: dogboy on September 11, 2012, 08:56:34 PM
They will arm and armor those, if they havent already. These are like ground drones.

with - Pink Guns!!

Again though - are they really better/cheaper/more economical then a caterpillar tracked machine?

>with - Pink Guns!!


>a caterpillar tracked machine
yeah. tracks lose contact with the ground in uneven terrain.  This thing is a mule for going straight up slick slopes that a cat tracked vehicle would definitely spin on.

I remember an X-Files back in the mid 1990's that talked about this idea.  Really interesting...

QuoteSo what we have here is a cockroach with a microchip strapped to its back.

...

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.

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/09/13/cyborg-cockroach-north-carolina-state-biobots

For some reason I find this more disconcerting than actual robots doing the same sort of thing.

Littleman:  I kind of agree.  It is the "merging" of actual life and robotics.