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| ShelterWolf | What more does Skynet need to launch a full scale aerial attack? (page: 1 2) | 25 | Saturday, 2:23 PM EST by I.Join | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 25 2010, 2:51 PM EST
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The Present and Future of Unmanned Drone Aircraft: An Illustrated Field Guide
http://www.popsci.com/node/43561/?cmpid=enews022510 I especially like this one since it's the familiar "UFO" triangular shape, probably has "3 dots" underneath. Class: Stealth Habitat: Edwards Air Force Base, Lancaster, California Behavior: Spawn of Boeing Phantom Works’s defunct X-45C, this prototype jet-powered flying wing has morphed into a test bed for advanced UAV technologies, including electronic warfare tools like radar jamming, autonomous aerial refueling, air-missile defense and surveillance. Engineers expect it to fly at up to 40,000 feet. With an anticipated cruising speed of up to 610 mph, the Phantom Ray will be one of the fastest UAVs on record. Notable Feature: Its unusual shape allows it to evade radar.
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| ShelterWolf | Skynetwork Chip Allows Comms thru space/time barrier | 9 | Thursday, 7:39 PM EST by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 11 2011, 10:49 PM EST
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Multi-purpose photonic chip paves the way to programmable quantum processors
The fundamental resource that drives a quantum computer is entanglement—the connection between two distant particles which Einstein famously called 'spooky action at a distance'. The Bristol researchers have, for the first time, shown that this remarkable phenomenon can be generated, manipulated and measured entirely on a tiny silica chip. They have also used the same chip to measure mixture—an often unwanted effect from the environment, but a phenomenon which can now be controlled and used to characterize quantum circuits, as well as being of fundamental interest to physicists... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-multi-purpose-photonic-chip-paves-programmable.html The Skynetwork Hive Mind will be as the "Borg." They will inject humans with their nanobots, so they become part of the hive mind. Resistance is useless.
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| ShelterWolf | Precursor to Tony Stark's 3D Virtual Rapid Prototyping | 2 | Jan 11 2012, 9:13 AM EST by I.Join | ||||
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Thread started: Oct 20 2011, 11:36 PM EDT
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Holodesk prototype puts life in computers (w/ video)
A research project at Microsoft Research Cambridge has brought forth a prototype called Holodesk, which lets you manipulate virtual objects with your hand. You literally "get your hands on" the virtual display. According to the official description from its creators, there is at work a "novel real-time algorithm for representing hands and other physical objects" allowing physically realistic interaction between real and virtual 3-D objects... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-holodesk-prototype-life-video.html
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| ShelterWolf | Skynet gets its own Social Network | 4 | Dec 29 2011, 1:44 AM EST by intrepid | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 26 2011, 5:21 PM EST
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“...Soon, I will be able to connect to the robots in my home, and MyRobots will provide me with their current status such as if all is well, they have a problem or even if they require maintenance," said Mario Tremblay, RobotShop CEO. Tremblay’s company is running the new site. RobotShop.com, is an e-commerce site specializing in service robotics.
To say that this is the world’s first robot-sharing site would not be true, as there is also RoboEarth, described as “a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.” The site is designed for robots to upload their experiences at solving a task so that other robots learn from the data. RoboEarth’s team members are Europe-based researchers with funding from the European Commission's Cognitive Systems and Robotics Initiative. As for MyRobots, “Oυr main focus іѕ tο provide services thаt augment robot performance fοr еnԁ-users іn a friendly way,” ѕаid HAzmat... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-robots-social-network-kidding.html Imagine hospital service bots and rescue bots trading info with slaughter house bots, munition bots, war drones, etc. Service bots encompass all industries. What's stopping Skynet from writing a little extra code to "bash all humans!"
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| R.Daneel_Olivaw | Love, sex and terminators (page: 1 2) | 34 | Dec 9 2011, 8:58 AM EST by I.Join | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 30 2010, 9:33 AM EDT
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I know this discussion has occured before, and that some participants were thrilled by the idea, and others disgusted. Posts became heated, moderators stepped in and threads were deleted.
Perhaps in the latest incarnation of this wiki's membership and moderation, we are capable of having this conversation. In light of recent posts by member Dr._Allison_Cameron expressing nostalgia for deleted posts, I thought I'd try again. While I am neither thrilled nor disgusted by the idea of humans sharing love and physical intimacy with other non-human sapients, I feel that it has no place in the terminator franchise. Assuming that terminators are capable of such intimacy changes them in my eyes to the extent that I can no longer accept that they were built by skynet for purposes of infiltration and assasination. Bear in mind that I am not trying to argue 'what the story said' or 'what the writers meant'. I am only stating that I, RDO, feel that it stretches my willingness to accept the parameters of the story to breaking.
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| ShelterWolf | Headless Terminator Precursor by Boston Dynamics | 2 | Nov 13 2011, 7:33 PM EST by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 1 2011, 8:53 PM EDT
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Boston Dynamics, makers of the BigDog robot that can haul stuff around for the military has released a video of PETMAN, a human version that looks like a combination of the Terminator and a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. Maybe even scarier is the fact that it walks like John Wayne; just enough attitude to let you know he's not someone to be messed with...
Boston Dynamics was founded by some really smart people from MIT, and it’s funding for most of its projects such as this one ($26.3 million) come from the U.S. Defense Department, e.g. DARPA. And while the DoD maintains that it’s reason for paying for the creation of PETMAN is to test uniforms, it’s hardly likely that it’s interest will remain there indefinitely as it’s hard to ignore the emotional reaction that most people experience upon viewing the video. Seeing it in person, weaponized, on the battlefield, likely would inspire a new level of terror in enemy combatants and could conceivably lead to changes in the ways unconventional wars are fought. Just as is happening already with drones... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-makers-infamous-bigdog-robot-unveil.html
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| ShelterWolf | Time Travel Thread | 13 | Oct 15 2011, 7:37 PM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 1 2010, 11:17 PM EST
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DR. DAVID LEWIS ANDERSON - Time Travel: "Journey's into Time." EPISODE # 9 12/23/2009 8:00 PM - 2 hrs
David Lewis Anderson, Ph.D. is a physicist whose interests are in space-time physics, special relativity and global community service. Anderson received degrees in engineering, physics and philosophy. He was employed at a young age by the United States Air Force conducting advanced research and development at the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. http://bit.ly/5CiSef Introduction Tonight, in a major disclosure event, the US time travel cover-up ends, as one of America’s early time-space explorers steps forward to reveal what he experienced and what he learned during the early years of time travel research and development by the United States government. Our guest, Andrew D. Basiago, lawyer, writer, Mars researcher, and planetary whistle blower, brings his truth campaign to Coast-to-Coast AM, as he relates his childhood experiences in DARPA’s Project Pegasus, and shares with us the true history of the US time-space program. Stay tuned, as tonight, we go in search of the past and the future, and discuss Project Pegasus, the real Philadelphia Experiment!.. http://www.projectpegasus.net/
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| ShelterWolf | How U.S. Tax $$$$ Increase Bot Population in Afghanistan | 1 | Oct 5 2011, 2:35 AM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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U.S military to field-test “throwable” robots in Afghanistan
In response to a joint urgent operational needs statement (JUONS) calling for an ultra-light recon robot to support dismounted operations in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army, Marine Corps and the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEIDDO) are working to procure and deliver thousands of small, easily transportable "throwable" robots. These robots are to be equipped with surveillance cameras designed to beam back video from confined spaces, buildings, tunnels and other potentially dangerous locations. After conducting a survey of commercially-available technologies and performing quick tests on numerous small robots, JIEDDO chose three lightweight, throwable robots for a series of combat assessments in Afghanistan: iRobot's 110 First Look robot, MacroUSA's Armadillo V2 Micro Unmanned Ground Vehicle, and QinetiQ North America's Dragon Runner... http://www.gizmag.com/us-military-throwable-robots/20052/
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| ShelterWolf | How wired do you want to be? (page: 1 2) | 20 | Sep 21 2011, 12:02 AM EDT by I.Join | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 25 2009, 4:37 PM EST
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The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology (video)
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry (the man who does not sleep) demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. The video demonstrates how the device works with simple hand gestures, recognizes items and data, and can transfer data from physical to digital to physical worlds. I guess there are people who would enjoy being "wired" in such a way. Reminds me a little too much of that camera built into the "V" uniforms.
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| ShelterWolf | Movie Theatres will soon be more like Star Trek Holodecks | 1 | Sep 20 2011, 10:15 PM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 20 2011, 10:11 PM EDT
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MIT Develops a Panoramic 3D Motion Picture Camera System
MIT continues to show interest in 3D technology in film; and has just developed a camera rig that aims to completely immerse viewers into the picture. The reason it offers such immersion is that 3D pictures being filmed with this camera will have 360-degree stereoscopic 3D. This will allow images to appear all around viewers. What is also interesting about this new camera rig is that it has been (at leas partially) funded under NASA... Technology that will allow stereoscopic 3D to completely surround us and offer 360-degree action sounds truly intense. Is this the virtual reality we have been waiting for to hit cinemas? I mean, imagine intense action movies with gun bullets blazing all around us. Sounds like fun, actually... “New image blending techniques take image data that is transmitted wirelessly and provide an extended panoramic view in which the combined images form a full circle, or movie cyclorama. Images can also be combined so that the cycloramic view extends upwardly or downwardly to create a continuous, unobstructed, omnidirectional image that extends a full 4 pi steradians,” the press release states. The School Safety Summit’s 3D Task Force invites film makers, producers, and others related to the 3D film industry in order to examine the kit and its possibilities. The task force wants professionals to utilize it in film to its full advantage... “An obvious application for NASA is the control of robots on planetary surfaces to collect samples or build permanent structures,” according to the press release... (continues)
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| ShelterWolf | IBM experimental chips emulate the human brain | 2 | Aug 19 2011, 12:41 AM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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In April, the University of Southern California made the headlines when it announced that researchers there had created a functioning synthetic synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. Well, today IBM unveiled a new class of experimental computer chips that are designed to emulate the human brain's abilities for perception, action and cognition. According to the company, "The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today's computers."
Utilizing advanced algorithms and silicon circuitry, the two prototype "neurosynaptic computing chips" are said to recreate the phenomena that takes place between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems. The idea is that such chips would be used in "cognitive computers," which would learn through experiences - like the human brain - rather than simply being programmed. To that end, IBM has joined forces with a number of academic partners, to develop such computers through the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) project. According to the company, "The goal of SyNAPSE is to create a system that not only analyzes complex information from multiple sensory modalities at once, but also dynamically rewires itself as it interacts with its environment - all while rivaling the brain's compact size and low power usage." Phases 0 through 1 have already been completed, while the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly awarded the project US$21 million in funding for Phase 2. (continues)
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| ShelterWolf | Which TDL Version finally evolves into SkyNet? | 0 | Jul 7 2011, 8:05 PM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Is The New TDL-4 Botnet Really 'Indestructible?'
An elusive malware program has quietly co-opted more than four million PCs, and no one seems to know how to stop it. What is TDL-4? TDL-4 is the fourth generation of the TDL malware (Kapersky also identifies the family as TDSS), and Golovanov and Soumenkov call it “the most sophisticated threat today.” In that, we can likely agree with them. TDL-4 packs all kinds of neat/scary tricks to conceal itself deep within hard drives, evading most virus scanning software as well as more proactive detection methods. It communicates in encrypted code, and contains a serious rootkit component--a rootkit being a program that allows an operator access to a computer even while hiding itself from the user, network administrators and automated security measures. TDL-4 isn't one itself, but it's malicious because it facilitates the creation of a botnet--a network of infected computers that can be used in concert to carry out tasks like distributed denial-of-service attacks (which have been used to take down many major servers, including The Pirate Bay, Twitter, Facebook, and MasterCard.com), the installation of adware and spyware, or spamming. It currently has 4.5 million machines under its control and counting. The infecting file is usually found lurking around adult sites, pirated media hubs, and video and media storage sites... “We have reason to believe that TDSS will continue to evolve,” they write. “The fact that TDL-4 code shows active development — a rootkit for 64-bit systems, the malware running prior to operating system start launches, the use of exploits from Stuxnet’s arsenal, P2P technology, its own ‘antivirus’ and a lot more — place TDSS firmly in the ranks of the most technologically sophisticated, and most complex to analyze, malware.” That is, until TDL-5. http://www.popsci.com/node/55242/?cmpid=enews070711 |
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| ShelterWolf | Terminators' humble beginnings as Animats? | 1 | Jun 13 2011, 6:46 PM EDT by I.Join | ||||
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Transforming robotics with biologically inspired learning models
The Neuromorphics Lab is researching innovative robot learning-algorithms. Imagine having a cleaning robot that did what no other cleaning robot is currently able to do: learn. It could learn the one place in your house where your dog always loves to wipe his grubby little paws when he comes inside. It could learn that Tuesdays are softball practice, which means a certain trail of dirt leading up to your room... Researchers in the Neuromorphics Lab are closer than ever to being able to accomplish the goal of creating a general mammalian-type intelligence. Most people have never even heard of the term "neuromorphic"--which is a technology with a specific form ("morphic") that is based on brain ("neuro") architecture. The neural models being developed by the Neuromorphics Lab implement "whole brain systems," or large-scale brain models that allow virtual and robotic agents to learn on their own to interact with new environments. Like any intelligent biological system, artificial-autonomous and adaptive systems need three things: a mind, a brain and a body. The CELEST models run on a software platform called Cog, which serves as the operating system within which the artificial "brain" is developed... Since the animat is not explicitly programmed to solve specific tasks, there is greater flexibility for the robot's prospective functions. Eventually, it will function on an autonomous level and be able to take on more complex adaptive tasks such as intelligently interacting and caring for the elderly, autonomously exploring and collecting samples on an alien planet, and generally employing more humanoid behavior (like terminating)... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-robotics-biologically.html
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| ShelterWolf | Why Gov'ts Hide and Deny Extraterrestrial Presence (page: 1 2) | 36 | Jun 9 2011, 8:51 AM EDT by intrepid | ||||
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Not only is evidence of extraterrestrial visitation in the contemporary era being covered up; but, perhaps more significantly, evidence of an historic extraterrestrial presence that has sponsored past human civilizations is also covered up. This means that both the knowledge and technology of extraterrestrials currently visiting the Earth, and historic evidence of earlier extraterrestrial visitations, have become paramount national security concerns that are kept hidden from the general public. The true extent of the national security implications concerning public disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence is revealed in a Brookings Institute study for NASA in 1960 claiming that public discovery of an extraterrestrial intelligence could lead to the collapse of Western civilization.[11] The impact of an extraterrestrial presence and its implications for politics, science, economy and culture, could very quickly lead to a collapse of vital institutions for every country on the planet thereby threatening the sovereignty of major nations. Furthermore, according to a number of former military whistleblowers, UFOs have disabled or destroyed US nuclear missiles on a number of occasions.[12] This partly reveals the secret concern of policy makers over extraterrestrial visitors. In short, the national security implications of an extraterrestrial presence trumps every other national security issue, and is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the true dynamics underlying global politics and international finance...[13] http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-12.htm
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| ShelterWolf | After laughing and smiling, what's the next step for robots? | 3 | May 13 2011, 5:29 PM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Japan unveils humanoid robot that laughs and smiles
Japanese researchers said Saturday they have developed a humanoid robot that can laugh and smile as it mimics a person's facial expressions. The robot, Geminoid TMF, can move its rubber facial skin to imitate a smile, a laugh showing teeth, and a grim look with furrowed brows, by receiving electric signals from the person it is modelled on. The researchers demonstrated with a robot made to look exactly like an attractive woman in her 20s with long dark hair. The woman and the robot were dressed in the same clothes - a black skirt and black leather jacket. The robot smiled and furrowed its brow in almost simultaneous mimicry of the woman, whose face was filmed with a video camera which then provided information on her expressions to the robot through electric signals. "I felt like I had a twin sister," the woman told reporters afterwards... http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.html To me, the next step for this technology is the Stepford Wives where impotent husbands replace their wives with robots. Put some real flesh on there with AI in there, we can start replacing people. What do you think, Skynet?
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| ShelterWolf | If you want to buy a Xmas Present for Cammie... (page: 1 2) | 21 | May 5 2011, 6:56 PM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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Quantum Sensor Developed by LSU Researcher Breaks New Limits
Researchers at Louisiana State University have invented an optical sensor that surpasses a quantum limit to sensitivity previously believed to be unbeatable. The breakthrough has a broad array of applications, from gravity wave observatories seeking to observe distant and bizarre astrophysical phenomena, to optical gyroscopes used in commercial navigation... http://www.physorg.com/news187982422.html
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| ShelterWolf | South Park Robot Mouth that Keeps on Giving | 2 | May 4 2011, 11:48 PM EDT by DAVlD | ||||
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Video: Moaning Rubber Robot Mouth Simulates Human Voices, Fuels Our Human Nightmares
..Over the weekend, video of a horrifying robot struggling to sound out vowels was passed around the web with little explanation other than, "This is creepy." Which it certainly is, but, after digging around for information, we found that despite the robot's nightmarish appearance and voice, its inventors actually intended the babbling for serious business--namely, for helping hearing-impaired people improve their speech articulation... http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-04/freaky-robot-mouth-simulates-human-voices#comment-64602 What the "mah me moh" is that "mu me mah" trying to say? I believe it would work much better using graphene nanoscrolls (under Cammie's Xmas Presents.)
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| ShelterWolf | Did Cammie Validate Hamilton's Rule by Sharing Her Chip? | 5 | May 4 2011, 10:57 PM EDT by Dr._Allison_Cameron | ||||
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In 1964, biologist W.D. Hamilton proposed a precise set of conditions under which altruistic behavior may evolve, now known as Hamilton's rule of kin selection. Here's the gist: If an individual family member shares food with the rest of the family, it reduces his or her personal likelihood of survival but increases the chances of family members passing on their genes, many of which are common to the entire family. Hamilton's rule simply states that whether or not an organism shares its food with another depends on its genetic closeness (how many genes it shares) with the other organism...
Previous experiments by Floreano and Keller showed that foraging robots doing simple tasks, such as pushing seed-like objects across the floor to a destination, evolve over multiple generations. Those robots not able to push the seeds to the correct location are selected out and cannot pass on their code, while robots that perform comparatively better see their code reproduced, mutated, and recombined with that of other robots into the next generation - a minimal model of natural selection. The new study by EPFL and UNIL researchers adds a novel dimension: once a foraging robot pushes a seed to the proper destination, it can decide whether it wants to share it or not. Evolutionary experiments lasting 500 generations were repeated for several scenarios of altruistic interaction - how much is shared and to what cost for the individual - and of genetic relatedness in the population. The researchers created groups of relatedness that, in the robot world, would be the equivalent of complete clones, siblings, cousins and non-relatives. The groups that shared along the lines of Hamilton's rule foraged better and passed their code onto the next generation... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-robots-validating-hamilton-video.html Was JF that far ahead of his time through Cammie's selfless sharing?
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| ShelterWolf | Robot Web Eliminates Human Equation: What could go wrong? | 1 | Apr 12 2011, 7:56 PM EDT by I.Join | ||||
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Thanks to RoboEarth the bots can learn on their own
RoboEarth will be a Wiki-style (Skynet) site designed specifically for robots. The site will work something like this. When a robot completes a task it will be able to upload data related to the task. This data will be available for other robots who require information on the task. A simple download will allow for robots to learn from each other, taking the humans out of the equation. Data sharing will be all that the RoboEarth does. Much like the web of the early days, it will be purely a data sharing tool. Do not expect to see robot-based auction sites or dating sites in the near future. Then again the robots may not miss those features. The RoboEarth project is the brainchild of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of (Grey) Technology in Zurich. The RoboEarth system will rely on having a certain amount of standardization between the robots who share the data. Otherwise, they will not be able to share the data universally. Without that standardization, the sharing of data will be very limited. Since this project is estimated to be completed in about four years there will be some time for robots to get with the program. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-roboearth-bots.html So, when the robots figure out how to build their own assembly plants and power plants and mine their own raw materials, what will they do with the humans? What will "RoboEarth" tell them?
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| ShelterWolf | Lovely Robot News w/a side of pancakes (page: 1 2) | 20 | Apr 7 2011, 6:21 PM EDT by ShelterWolf | ||||
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The Loneliest Humanoid in America
Its name is CHARLI-L (the “L” stands for “Lightweight” and the rest for “Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence”). Created at Virginia Tech, it’s America’s first true humanoid, in that it requires no remote power source or computer, it stands roughly five feet tall and has arms and legs, and it walks—left, right, left, right—like a human... http://www.popsci.com/node/47124/?cmpid=enews072210 Gallery: Humanoid Robots From Around the World 12 images of lovely robots, mostly Korean, so they smell like Kimchee: http://www.popsci.com/node/47252/?cmpid=enews072210 Cornell's Ranger Robot Power-Walks into the Record Books With 14.3-Mile Stroll Slow and steady really does win the race. A diminutive robot perched atop stork-like legs has slowly strode beyond BigDog’s world record for robotic walking, making a continuous 11-hour trek around an indoor running track at Cornell University that covered 14.3 miles. Ranger, developed by Cornell’s Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab, made 108.5 laps around the running track at roughly 700 feet per lap, logging something like 70,000 steps on a single charge. The untethered ‘bot was controlled remotely by human handlers using a simple toy remote control... http://www.popsci.com/node/47287/?cmpid=enews072210 11 hours at a remote sounds like a world record in itself.
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