Killer Robots

Training robots to anticipate our needs.
Training robots to anticipate our actions.
Training robots to figure out where we’re hiding and exterminate us, says I.

The multidisciplinary team of the EU-funded Joint Action Science and Technology (JAST) project first analyzed human-human collaborations, seeing what kind of behavior and brain function are at play when we work (or don’t work) well together, and then applied the research into building proactive robots.

The eventual aim is to build robots that can ask questions, discuss and explore possibilities, assess their companion’s ideas, and anticipate what their partners might do next.

There’s an article at Hack-A-Day that shows an actual carnivorous robot. Someone please tell me I’m being punked.

I think the title says it all folks… Sit down and watch in horror.

I found out about Gwap today, who’s slogan reads "When you play a game at Gwap, you aren’t just having fun. You’re helping the world become a better place.". Sounds lovely doesn’t it? The only problem is that when you play a game at Gwap, you’re actually training computers how to learn… Seriously.

Time to buy more guns.

I just watched a video of a friggen robot make sushi. Dear, God…

I don’t know whether to be scared, excited, or to ask this guy if I can join Voltron.

Army Mechanic’s Garage Tinkering Yields 18-Foot Mecha Exoskeleton,
27 hydraulic cylinders bring the Mecha to life, its movements matching those of the person inside it.

the better to hunt us with.

Yes, now scientists are cooking up ways to teach robots to
walk on water!

No, I’m not kidding. Walk on freaking water!
The only guy I ever heard of doing this was considered pretty freaking special, but no, let’s figure out how to get robots to do it.

A robot that can walk on water: such a miracle is one step closer to reality, thanks to some new research that learns from the work nature has done with water striders. Walking on water may seem like a superpower and the name scientists have give the property of the striders’ legs is fitting: super-hydrophobia.

Super-hydrophobic legs repel water, and it is exactly this super property that scientists have tried to simulate with a (you guessed it) supercomputer. Professor of Chemistry at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xiao Cheng Zeng worked together with colleagues — and the supercomputer — at Japan’s RIKEN Institute, Takahiro Koishi, Shigenori Fujikawa, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki and Kenji Yasuoka of Keio University.

Super hero powers: Robots – 1, Humans – 0
Thanks guys!