On Internet this week:
- US Government-built “Reaper” flying “hunter/killer” robots to be powered by the UK’s Skynet sattelite network.
- Dean Kamen demonstrates new fully articulated robot arm.
- Two message-bots converse with one another.
Okay maybe these guys just specialize in web design and ecommerce now, but we should probably keep a weather eye open.
Tempting fate rating: a billion.
wow… those H/K machines can turn on your cell remotely to target you? Fear.
Meh. It’s hard to get too concerned about technology advancing too rapidly when I watch that video of Dean Kamen and realize I can’t understand a damn word he’s saying. If that’s the quality of microphones we’ve got, the killer robots will spend the entire time standing around saying, “What? Come again?”
Also: the most advanced walking robot today (that we know about) is the Asimo. The Asimo walks like it’s perpetually constipated. I cannot and will not be frightened by that.
One day, Asimo will fix that constipation issue, then we’ll all be sorry.