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02
Nov
2009
Rich ‘may evolve into separate species’

6 days ago by pjwalker911

The rich could all be cyborgs in the future. “Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice o ...

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20
Oct
2009
Shape-Shifting Robot Blob Has Emerged From Your Nightmares

19 days ago by pjwalker911

escapistmagazine.com | Oct 19, 2009 by Tom Goldman iRobot’s flesh-like ChemBot will freak you out… The ChemBot might look like something out of a bad dream, but it’s actually a multimillion dollar military project. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Offi ...

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18
Oct
2009
Oozy new military robo can squeeze through tiny spaces

21 days ago by pjwalker911

ANI | Oct 17, 2009 London, October 17 (ANI): A technology company has developed a new military robot that resembles an oozy blob, which has the ability to squeeze through all manner of cracks and crevices. According to a report in The Sun, the ‘ChemBot’, made by technology company iRobot, can ooze a ...

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17
Oct
2009
DARPA Program Brings Sci-fi Capability to Warfighters

22 days ago by pjwalker911

US Dept of Defense – DARPA Program Brings Sci-fi Capability to Warfighters ISRIA | Oct 16, 2009 Moviegoers were captivated as they watched a metallic assassin morph before their eyes in “Terminator 2.” The villain turned to liquid before assuming new forms capable of squeezing through narrow opening ...

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03
Oct
2009
Calling All Transhumanists

36 days ago by pjwalker911

Scene from the 1927 film Metropolis where a woman is used by a mad scientist to create a robot replica to serve his evil plans. Forbes | Oct 2, 2009 by Courtney Boyd Myers Technology futurists love to talk about the Singularity as the point in time when technology starts to progress so rapidly that ...

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26
Sep
2009
Real Science Sets Up Surrogates‘ Futuristic Robot Action

43 days ago by pjwalker911

Video Surrogates – Official Trailer Surrogates – Official Science Fact Teaser

In Surrogates, Bruce Willis plays a cop who loses control of his robotic counterpart. Photo courtesy Disney Wired | Sep 25, 2009 By Hugh Hart HOLLYWOOD — Taken at face value, Bruce Willis’ new sci-fi thriller Surrogates sports a premise every bit as outlandish as the wig he wears during much of the ...

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19
Aug
2009
Futurologist: Global Warming will make us have sex with robot prostitutes

81 days ago by pjwalker911

Tourism futurologist Ian Yeoman, from New Zealand’s University of Wellington, gave an preview of what the world could be like in 2050, shaped by global warming. Future tourism may include robot sex AAP | Aug 17, 2009 Robot "prostitutes'' would make an appearance / Reuters IT sounds like science fict ...

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Robots learn to lie, cheat and hoard

81 days ago by pjwalker911

Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other PopSci | Aug 18, 2009 By Stuart Fox With the development of killer drones, it seems like everyone is worrying about killer robots. Now, as if that wasn’t bad enough, we need to start worrying about lying, cheating robots as well. In an experiment run at the ...

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Atlanta mayoral candidate proposes spy robots to patrol streets for “bums”

81 days ago by pjwalker911

Atlanta Mayoral Candidate Rufus Terrill, creator of the bum bot Creative Loafing interviews Atlanta mayoral candidate Rufus Terrill owner of Terrill’s restaurant in Atlanta and creator of the Bum Bot, a robot that he advocates that the city use to fight homelessness and crime. Related ‘Bum Bot’ Robo ...

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17
Aug
2009
The next revolution in computers and manufacturing: programmable matter

83 days ago by pjwalker911

Claytronics or Gershenfeld: Why You’ll Be Able to Make Almost Anything Singularity Hub | Jul 23, 2009 by Aaron Saenz We still tell our children “you can be anything when you grow up.” It’s time to start telling them “you’re going to be able to make anything…right now.” Similar work at MIT and Carneg ...

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