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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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Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Are Total BS
9:00AM Wilson Rothman | When people talk about robots and ethics, they always seem to bring up Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics.” But there are three major problems with these laws and their use in our real world.
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The Beautiful, Scary Robots of Shigeo Hirose
3:21AM Wilson Rothman | There are plenty of robot builders, but none bring as much elegance to engineering as Shigeo Hirose. His creatures are Star Wars, Iron Giant and Dean Kamen rolled into one cybernetic maki. More »
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Unmanned Warbots of WWI and WWII
3:00AM Wilson Rothman | Long before Predator drones and PackBots patrolled Iraq and Afghanistan, unmanned systems were used in combat—as far back as WWI and WWII, in fact. Here’s a quick look at the coolest of the old-timey warbots: More »
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