“I worry that if kids grow up being taught by robots and viewing technology as the instructor,” said Mitchel Resnick, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “they will see it as the master.” http ( Read more... )

Picture it, a future where one robot has been programmed to love ( Read more... )

We have FluteBot. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx8U1FgILCERead more... )

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I suppose the easiest way to figure out which moth is a cyborg would be to watch out for the one not so interested in your porch light.

Normally I don't do this, but blue_aardvark posed two excellent questions to yesterday's entry (2008-10-27) that were just too involved to be simplified into a comment back ( Read more... )

“Packs of Robots will hunt down Uncooperative Humans ( Read more... )

"Sometimes a person gets into a state where everything seems to be cheerful and bright -although nothing outside has actually changed. Other times everything pleases you less: the entire world seems dreary and dark," -Marvin Minsky ( Read more... )

Earlier this month an 81 year old Australian man killed himself with the assistance of a "Suicide Robot."While this is indeed a sad and delicate matter, I can't help being morbidly impressed at how astonishingly unique and innovative this suicide was ( Read more... )

I have a friend with what I see as an irrational fear of Robots ( Read more... )

If science fiction has made anything apparent, it is that robots are the future, specifically artificial intelligence (which doesn’t necessarily need to be in robot form). So I guess I should say that sci-fi writing has made it apparent that robots and AI are the future ( Read more... )