This Week in Creepy Robots: Archive

3 tags

Apr 1st

55 notes

6 tags

Mar 31st

6 notes

3 tags

Mar 31st

70 notes

2 tags

Roboethics: Three Ways To Make Sure That Future... →

singularitarian: As robots get more autonomous and more powerful, we’re going to have to program them to not be evil. It’s no guarantee, but there are things we can do to make sure they remain our friends and not our overlords. If only it were that simple.

Mar 30th

19 notes

2 tags

Mar 30th

338 notes

2 tags

Mar 30th

3,912 notes

3 tags

Mar 30th

1,200 notes

4 tags

Mar 30th

11 notes

6 tags

Mar 29th

66 notes

1 tag

Mar 29th

334 notes

3 tags

Mar 29th

21 notes

Mar 29th

12 notes

5 tags

Mar 28th

4 notes

4 tags

Mar 28th

113 notes

5 tags

Mar 28th

7 notes

1 tag

Mar 28th

71 notes

4 tags

Mar 27th

12 notes

6 tags

The Doctor Bot Will See You Now

Not quite Patch Adams, is it?

Mar 27th

5 tags

Robot Helicopters Can't Deliver Your Tacos, Says... →

Reason thankfully wins out.

Mar 27th

5 notes

4 tags

Outsource Your Chores Through a Robot Via the... →

The Heaphy Project allows humans to help ROS-enabled robots perform complex tasks via teleoperation. This means that if you need to empty your dryer, you could ask your robot to do it which, in turn, will hire a human to help him with the chore. And thus did the robots make us their slaves.

Mar 26th

2 notes

5 tags

Mar 26th

13 notes

3 tags

Mar 26th

100 notes

4 tags

Mar 26th

9 notes

7 tags

Mar 25th

37 notes

Mar 24th

25 notes

3 tags

Mar 24th

366 notes

6 tags

Mar 24th

13 notes

4 tags

Mar 23rd

291 notes

6 tags

Mar 23rd

17 notes

5 tags

Mar 23rd

46 notes

2 tags

Mar 23rd

69 notes

1 tag

Mar 23rd

13 notes

6 tags

Mar 23rd

3 notes

5 tags

Mar 23rd

22 notes

6 tags

Mar 23rd

5 notes

7 tags

Mar 22nd

1 note

8 tags

Finally got around to listening to the newest...

Mar 22nd

12 notes

8 tags

Mar 22nd

3 notes

3 tags

Mar 22nd

19 notes

6 tags

Trends in Robots

Robots are the future and the future is now. Let’s take a look at some of the latest developments in robotics and how they will affect our human society. #1 ROBOTS WILL ATTACK MANY MANY OLD PEOPLE! Sorry, old folks, there’s no saving you from this fate. Our new robot overlords cannot tolerate frailty or disease. #2 ROBOTS WILL BECOME YOUR NEW PRISON After the robot uprising,...

Mar 22nd

11 notes

3 tags

Mar 22nd

4,979 notes

3 tags

Watch

What could be creepier than a wooden Norse robot? A wooden Norse robot that appears to be the center of some kind of cult. (h/t whatislunar)

Mar 21st

6 notes

Mar 21st

24 notes

5 tags

Mar 21st

10 notes

Mar 21st

20 notes

4 tags

Mar 21st

30 notes

4 tags

National Lab Fires Off Record Laser Shot →

singularitarian: The world’s largest laser has just put a little more zing in its zap. On 15 March, the 192 laser beams of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, fired a record 1.875-megajoule shot into the laser’s target chamber, surpassing its 1.8-megajoule design specification. The shot, which was just a demonstration and did...

Mar 21st

8 notes

7 tags

“Instead of starting from scratch and having to solve all those pesky movement...”

– “Snails of War” — The New York Times

Mar 21st

4 notes

6 tags

Mar 21st

4 notes

5 tags

Mar 21st

24 notes