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Posts tagged "prometheus"
10.11.12
The Carnegie Mellon computer science department uses a couple co-worker robots (CoBots) to act as guides and to deliver packages. They don’t have arms, though, so to use the elevator they need to ask a human for help. Maybe we could avoid a robopocalypse if more people designed robots this way. At the very least, we’d never have to worry about an android being as touchy-touchy as David 8.
Robots equipped with tactile sensor able to identify materials through touch
“Big things have small beginnings.”
In Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity in Near, a computer avatar named Ramona becomes self-aware and learns about being human from Tony Robbins. I’m pretty sure that’s how David from Prometheus got to be so creepy weird.
Future Deep Space Missions Could Have Robotic Vegetable Gardens
Just don’t let Weyland Industries design it.
TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH by ~Res-Gestae
“I understand human emotions, although I do not feel them myself.”
(via stampedes)
David from Prometheus
Thank you, Ridley Scott, for once again showing us how evil an android can be.
