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Topic: Robotics - times are a changin'

Crackdoc Posts: 6,681 Registered: Oct 7, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,609 User ID: 1,082,910	Subject: Robotics - times are a changin'
	'I, Robot' is nearly here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17302657 "Britain's Engineered Arts' singing "Robothespian" attracted attention for its rendition of Singing in the Rain and Star Wars impersonations. The android is being marketed as an educational guide. Its developers now plan to link up the machines' brains via the cloud so they can share information between each other." Also -> "The Karlsruhe Institute's Armar robot offered a vision of the future in which domestic droids carry out chores. The machine's grip is sensitive enough to allow it to take milk and cartons of juice out of a fridge, and it can learn how to clean or empty a dishwasher by watching its owner." Very interesting article outlining just some of the latest tech. -----signature----- People in the Middle-East: They Are ALL Crazy as BedBugs!!! Erich Fromm: â€œThere is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.â€ Toss aside the paradigms of civility you hold - welcome the social dysfunction of tomorrow.
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__Bonk__ Posts: 53,947 Registered: Jul 25, '09 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 53,339 User ID: 1,364,654	Subject: Robotics - times are a changin'
	Only a matter of time now before they start to hate humanity! -----signature----- I keep my eyes fixed on the sun! A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
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Crackdoc Posts: 6,681 Registered: Oct 7, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,609 User ID: 1,082,910	Subject: Robotics - times are a changin'
	What WILL become very critical to support years-long space travel is the advent of truly flexible, self-powered/easilly fuelled robot forms AND BCI technology ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266812/ ). Implanting radiation-shielded brains into robot forms would be one answer. It probably isn't impossible to 'cut away' those portions of the brain that drive negative activities, eg, sex, agression, religious whackoism, etc. The self-teaching robot brain is a little scary - 'Borg' time. -----signature----- People in the Middle-East: They Are ALL Crazy as BedBugs!!! Erich Fromm: â€œThere is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.â€ Toss aside the paradigms of civility you hold - welcome the social dysfunction of tomorrow.
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