May 2012
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According to an infographic from Online Schools, the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea predicts a robot will be in every household by 2020. No guesses, though, on how many human pets those robots will have.
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It’s one thing to be enslaved by robots, but it’ll be a whole new kind of hell if our robot overlords are dressed in Hawaiian shirts.
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jaclynbarker asked: Have you seen the video for the Boston Dynamics Big Dog robot on youtube? It's probably one of the scariest robots I've ever seen.
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Hasbro to reboot Furby →
With all the technological advances since 1998, I can only imagine how creepy scary the new Furby will be.
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EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
According to Treehugger, researchers in Germany are experimenting with lasers specially tuned to attack weeds. The idea is to blast the plant vermin with death rays instead of waging chemical warfare with herbicides. Which sounds great for the environment and all, but how are these weed-killing lasers going to be deployed?
The researchers are currently considering whether robots or drones can...
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Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind →
Controlling robots with your mind = good. The other way around, though …
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Roboticist Heather Knight (@heatherknight) is the robot whisperer. I consider myself more of robot shrieker.
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