I promise* this is the last promotional post for Cassini HD I’ll put up.These false-color images of a hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole can now be found in our Cassini HD app for iPad. Download our newest update in the iTunes store for more stunning images of Saturn and its moons.
*may not actually be the last one
Real-world mechanicals controlled by Twitter? It’s almost like science WANTS to destroy the world.
(via MAKE)
You push it around too much, that robot’s gonna get mad.
But it treats the disposable penis with care
Larry is a “humanoid simulated vomiting system” designed to help scientists analyze contagion. And like millions around the world right now, he’s struggling with norovirus - a disease one British expert describes as “the Ferrari of the virus world”.
Just starting off your New Year right.
(via NBCNews.com)
Why has SETI not yet found evidence of extraterrestrials? One answer could be that organic civilizations are overrun by mechanical ones:
Because the conquest by machines might happen in less than two centuries of technological evolution, the consequences would be that there’s nobody out there for us to talk to.
(via Discovery News)
Japan is raising a robot army to overrun the International Space Station! Okay, it’s just one robot and it’s pretty small. The Kibo robot will study robot-human interactions aboard the space station next year. Still, those astronauts might want to keep a close eye on this little guy.
HEARBO is a robot being developed by HONDA to test systems for robot hearing. Next, they’ll teach it to read lips and we’ll never be able to plot against our robot overlords!
Using a virtual reality simulation and a robot, researchers have successfully paired a human with a rat, allowing each to interact with the other at the same scale, simultaneously, in both a virtual and actual arena.
What are you doing, Science?
Transforming cockroaches into organic-synthetic hybrid replicants? I can’t see any way this could backfire.
RoboRoach Checks In…Will He Check Out?!
Real cockroaches remotely controlled. What will they think of next??
