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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Hardware

It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors To Out-Think A Cat

4:01AM John Herrman | Also on IBM’s cat-sized-brain-simulation materials list: 143 terabytes of RAM, miles and miles of cabling, a million watts of electricity, 6675 tons of air-conditioning equipment and an acre of floor space. More »
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Robots

Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course

3:00AM Jack Loftus | Asimo, still licking its wounds after being outrun by Toyota, fired back earlier this month at Carnegie Mellon, where it learned how to navigate complex, moving obstacle courses. Seriously impressive stuff in this video—just wait until things start spinning! More »
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Robots

Specter Of Deadly A.I. Looms In Wake Of Invite-Only Asilomar Conf

4:00AM Jack Loftus | Science fiction is great fun, but should we really be quaking in our boots over dangerous A.I. anytime soon? A growing number of scientists say yes, and the results of their February discussion at Asilomar are finally being made public. More »
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Robots

Why the Terminator Uprising (Probably) Won’t Ever Happen

7:00AM Wilson Rothman | When I interviewed Wired for War author PW Singer last March, he told me that the preconditions for a successful Terminator-type uprising are not in place. As computer development accelerates, however, those preconditions become way more possible. More »
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Robots

Ossur Power Knee Prosthesis Features AI-Driven Motor

9:00AM Mark Wilson | The latest Ossur Power Knee is just a prosthesis, but it more closely resembles a robot than any artificial limb. More »
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Entertainment

Battlestar Galactica Prequel Caprica Says You Can Store 13.3 Brains On an iPod Shuffle

5:37AM Jason Chen | According to the script, each person’s consciousness only takes 300MB. Do you believe it? Does this make you want to watch the series more or less? [io9] More »
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Robots

Robot Makes Autonomous Scientific Discovery for First Time

11:41PM Mark Wilson | A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge. More »
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Robots

Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents

11:40PM Mark Wilson | The collective power of many little robots could do a lot of good for the world. But for now, it just pulls little children across the floor in a freaky way. More »
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Robots

The Future is Coming to a Robot Near You (Or Behind, Rather)

10:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | The Pentagon and the Department of Defence has recently put in a request to contractors for a multi-robot pursuit system to search and track down “non-cooperative humans.” The military is worried that controlling robots will take time away from defence officials so creating a pack-hunting AI that will do it automatically will be useful. Once the system is perfected, government officials expect it to become autonomous and armed. Maybe next time, you’ll think twice about littering or about to make a “California” stop. That’s exactly what this economy needs anyways: a good use of taxpayers’ dollars to replace more jobs. [New Scientist] More »
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