News distortion example: AI, competition, and cooperation
An example of how news gets distorted: DeepMind, which is part of Alphabet (Google's parent company), published an interesting and...
Archive for Robots
Star Trek science
I've seen a couple of people complain about the new Trek movies not being very scientific, which led me to...
Bots in love
Back in June, Ben posted a conversation between a chatbot and the benrosen supercomputer. Not long thereafter, I got pinged...
The uncanny valley: is it real?
I regularly see people talking online about the uncanny valley. It's an idea proposed in 1970 by roboticist Masahiro Mori:...
Today’s half-baked idea: Submitbot
Another in a series of ideas I've had while half-awake: As more publishing venues turn toward online submissions, it may...
Cylon jack-o’-lantern
Over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories a few years back, they provided schemata for how to make a Cylon jack-o'-lantern....
Items: Robots
Assorted robot info and videos: Toyota invents a robot that can run like a human. Robot Baseball Players Can Pitch...
Items: Assorted videos
These have no particular theme--just some videos I've happened across in the past few weeks that have been cluttering up...
Items: Robots, all sorts
Here are a whole bunch of pix and videos of robots, some of them kind of lifelike in various ways....
Review: I, Robot (movie)
I liked it quite a bit.
Video roundup, part 1
It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a...
Partner Ballroom Dance Robot
Well, my Britannica arrived, but they sent me the 2005 version instead of the 2006 version. Sigh. But they correctly...