Army orders 24 new sentry-bots, Judgment Day moved up two months

Of course, you laughed yesterday when you heard Professor Noel Sharkey warn against impending apocalyptic man vs. machine battle that was to come, but it can receive news that you sing a different song. A pilot program in Nevada employing robotic sentinels of the patrol Hawthorne Army Depot is an update: 24 brand new MDARS called drones, or “Mobile Detection and Assessment and Response System.” The purchase of $ 40 million will nab Army diesel robots which operate at speeds of up to 20 km / h, the use of RFID tags to keep track of locks and barriers, and can operate for 16 hours without refueling. Although robots have been tested with automatic weapons, these new versions will be equipped with non-lethal weapons, making them much less deadly when Skynet is online.

Researchers working to teach creepy baby robot to talk !

iCub The robot was already well for itself in the department creepiness, but a group of researchers at the University of Plymouth are now working on the things take a big step forward by the so-called “baby-robot” to speak (as it is against the teachings of baby talk). The alleged to be in the next four years, the period in which the researchers are working together with specialists in the development of language, which usually examine the way in which their parents to the children to speak. Finally, they hope that the robot is capable of fulfilling the tasks as a basis for the accumulation of blocks of wood, and in a position to the names of objects and actions, that he spoke basis of the records, such as: “Robot uses Stock Cube, “or” I want more life, the father. “Who is more, it is that the research has not even started, one of the teachers, as nothing less than a milestone, saying that” the results of Research for the establishment of scientific and technological needs for the development of humanoid robots to develop the capacity complex behaviors, thinking and communication skills through learning and the individual’s Social Committee. “Unless the robot that receives some ideas, which he owned, it is not saying.

Readybot cleans your kitchen!!

We want one. Scratch that: We need a. Check out this ridiculously cuisine super-cleaning robot called Readybot – if that is what the future of robot resembling slavery, we sign. The creators, which is part of a group called the homebrew Readybot Robot Challenge, are dedicated to the search for a breakthrough application for the consumer robotics, and team leader Tom Benson said, the answer is simple: “We believe that people want a robot that can clean the kitchen. “Uh, yes. dishwasher-size prototype Readybot is now possible to do a little less than half of your kitchen chores, but he says Benson will eventually reach 80 percent – which represents about 100 percent more than we are currently doing. Falling in love with the video after the break.

Professor decries robotic killing machines, clearly prefers to do killing himself

So, the military is continuing on the path of the inevitable completely computer controlled autonomous robo-warriors capable of combating the deadly battles of man on our behalf – and future opponents Sheffield U prof like Noel Sharkey, , the ethics of autonomous military systems conference in London, decried by bots “self-determined killing abilities as” a threat to humanity “- especially if they are captured and re-offered by the terrorists to do their evil bidding. Sharkey exclaimed that he is “working in artificial intelligence for decades, and the idea of a robot to make decisions regarding the termination of man terrifies [him]“, but – and we just it will throw out there – if they are oppressed by a race of machines run amok were actually an improvement over our governments corrupt men? Is it not a possibility, too? We will certainly continue to say that this is in some way recognizing that we managed not to be toppled by our own creations. So far.

P.S. We dare you, commentators, NOT bust welcoming our robot lords cliché.

Real Robocop – Homegrown security bot heckles vagrants

Rufus Terrill’s sturdy robot hand is on average more than your friend drinking water – in fact, four feet in height, 300 pounds Robotic Security Protection his work makes to the vandals and vagrants marring the streets of Atlanta. The inventor is an engineer-turned-bar owners who are tired of dinghies and thieves to drag his company shocked. Instead of asking experts, he builds a robot with a remote control, Flash, can be used with a projector, respiratory and to resist the water, but also the most difficult 40 ounce. Beverage cans, which inevitably its way. Better still, it can even speak to the creature, and apparently, his series of tactical scaremongering was effective enough on this day. Speak to protect and serve.

Toshiba’s 815T PB on Softbank threatens humanity!

We want this kind of wrong was – provisional, and we are very pleased that it is not – but you can not help but be a little bit to think that the Toshiba 815T freaked DB on Softbank, developed to a new review to the Star (you have guessed, It) robo phones called Ketai Sousakan 7th Yeah Yeah, QVGA, 3G, 3.2-megapixel camera, which is very good, but our latent fear of cancer cell in the brain just getting out of the window.

Solar-powered dragonfly !

Make no mistake, our hearts are floating when we finally attended the WowWee FlyTech Dragonfly buzzing about, but there is something about this creature that we really earn more. Designed and built by James G. Watt, the insect robot reportedly includes a number of solar cells that provide enough power in sunlight to the critter’s wings flap. Granted, we are not told whether it is powerful enough to deliver the notes of love mathematics courses, but we are digging the concept, whatever.

Towering Gort replica fetching a pretty penny at auction

We saw a lot thanks to the fantastic replicas always fascinating eBay pages before, but this is apparently creating hit home with a good number of affluent buyers nerds. Reproduction of fiberglass Gort from the famous 1951 classic The Day The Earth Stood Still is currently sitting just above $ 4000, and there are still a few hours, quite left for bids to fly in ‘ other galaxies. Unfortunately, the winning bidder will be forced to trek to San Francisco to pick it up, but at least you can expect the audit of its screen tilt and sound effects to melt before your portfolio and call you master.

Wizkid robot looks nothing like a child, is likely smarter than one

We’ll be straight with you – Wizkid would be much easier to be taken seriously when they are expected, even from afar, as a companion Ling Earth, or at least one animal. Instead, we expect a very unusual, but absolutely brilliant robot, which can be applied to the grindstone human faces, forget your hand and the preferences of motions. In essence, the creature is determined that our lives to the start of the wave when it comes to a stereo CD into his box, with the Solitaire, souls and we keep busy with other on-screen interactive applications. Not a word about what kiddo is for the sphere, but the people very curious can go to say hello, The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Absolut Quartet: music robots, make it with ping pong balls and brandy glasses (video)

Prepare to be amazed. Thank you for the good lorf embedded video, because the words to express our admiration and Dan’s Paluska and Jeff Lieberman’s hurling table tennis ball, robotics orchestral Absolutely quartet on your machine boxes LCD cells, the rods and cones. If you … A poet. The video after the break.

Mattel’s D-Rex wants a piece of Pleo, your leg

If you have the time, about you, you might not find that in this year’s season of festivals storage technology, but ten months, and apparently, Mattel, believes that there is a series of toys, the hottest thing already understood. Granted, we put our bets on this angry animated Elmo Live colleagues (and yes, Kota legitimate dark horse), but with $ 150 D-Rex dinosaur is still quite smooth. It’s aimed at children aged between six and (simply), the interactive features dino would have 100 different roars, “alive” in the skin (saywha?), And the ability to respond to a variety of commands, or just a piece of your ankle ‘ It prefers. Looks like Pleo’s got his work cut, how?

Gesture-controlled robot is at your service (video)

Engineering at the University of Tokyo Tsuyoshi Horo has a new system to control the robot (or in this case a shift in the chair), with the help of a simple hand gestures and body. The researchers used a circular route from cameras to detect and follow the movements of the body in a controlled environment, and these movements to action for a PLC. The cameras are used to provide a real-time 3D volumetric model of the objects or persons in the room, then in a virtual cube psychedelic pile to be read and how the data is processed. Seen movement allows a user, the bot something of a direction to show how they want them to go. Of course, this is very good, but we are interested in ourselves Tron-ed in a very complex Rubik’s Cube – where we register? See the video after the break to secure the system (and blocks), in the action.

Kurzweil predicts that machines in 2029 will match man !

Known technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil is in the folder on the intelligence of the man-machine interface, the parity: it is 2029, then be prepared to fully to the new digital levels. Apparently, the machines “that both the hardware and software to the level of artificial intelligence of the people” until then, but even if they are not in the form of termination meatbag cyborgs, Kurzweil Is considers a future of intelligent machines is in the nano-level interfaces to our own physiology and intelligence. Oh, sure, these things completely pie in the sky – but it remains amusing absurd to think about this kind of crazy shit 21 Century, which hold.

Robot chef whips up delicacies we wouldn’t dare touch

Cooks not far from humans are extraordinary, but the last culinary guru handicrafts in Japan has a predilection for extreme. Apparently, EZ Commander Robot was sighted in Osaka exciting octopus balls (all things), but apparently, the creature has a plate concoct anything from the very beginning. Interestingly, this demonstration is not really used to the food value of their benefits, but the identification of other issues, such as the recognition of the language and the ability to carry out routine tasks without human intervention. Click here to view the video, but remember that we are not responsible for the ruin your appetite.

Humanoid acts out your dreams…

Forget your dreams of control – after all, this is not the idea of a mechanical friend, regardless of your brain from wrong idea until the last night, much more attractive? In an interesting pressure, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have joined the development of a humanoid who actually sophisticated dream interpretation of the results (derived by the analysis of data from a variety of sensors) and deeds show what it is happening in the mind. Frankly, we are still not sure whether we want you to remember some of these trips at night – and even less to see some bot play it back – but when you glanced this border and immediately the finger for a video on The leap to the head in the past, do exactly that.