Showing posts with label Robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robots. Show all posts

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Japan's Robot for Lonely Men

More and more robots for lovin' instead of fightin'. What's up with that? I want Terminators, Sentinels, Decepticons, et cetera, not Weird Science.

A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm (15 inch) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around US$175, with a target market of lonely adult men. Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Robot Lawnmower Allegedly Kills Danish Man.



One of these machines allegedly killed a Danish man!

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Realistic Robot Woman!

SKYNET Begins? (Did Software Kill Soldiers?)

Is the software becoming 'aware?'

It “is assumed that there was a mechanical problem, which led to the accident. The gun, which was fully loaded, did not fire as it normally should have," he said. "It appears as though the gun, which is computerised, jammed before there was some sort of explosion, and then it opened fire uncontrollably, killing and injuring the soldiers."

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U.S. Military Gets Newest Kill-Bot

I recall this event being the beginning of the end in the Terminator movies.

The U.S. military's small, but growing, arsenal of armed robots has a new addition.

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Sex with Robots Could be Commonplace by 2050!

When is someone going to make a sci-fi movie about an out-of-control sexbot???
Romantic human-robot relationships are no longer the stuff of science fiction -- researchers expect them to become reality within four decades. And they do not mean simply, mechanical sex.
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Swarms of Transformer-style robots to be built!

More than meets the eye comes to your local military...

Scientists aim to create a prototype team of self-organising, shape-changing mini robots that work as a team by 2013.

The self-healing robots will be able to dock with each other, share energy and co-operate to maximise their abilities to achieve different tasks.