The cry of so many fictional robots can be heard with revelation that researchers have created artificial skin for robots that can feel pressure and pain. For work in space, working with humans, this is a feasible idea, allowing robots to feel what it is that they are doing. But just wait for the day when they become self-aware, then we’re all in for it!
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November 23, 2007
The SuperBots are Coming!
The SuperBots are coming, and there's nowhere they can't get. Developed by the Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory (winner of the "Coolest workplace name" award three years running), they're obviously the result of an engineer looking the Replicators (murderous self-assembling insectoid robots that plague Stargate command) and thinking "amateurs".
The demonstration video (also linked at the end of this article) really has to be seen to be believed. Seriously, go watch it now, I'll wait.
October 16, 2007
Is Future Intimacy with Robots Inevitable?
"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," claimed artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships.
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May 19, 2009
Electronic Evolution: Research Show Robots Forming Human-like Societies
A lone group of Swiss scientists have been using scattered LEDs, neural circuity, and an army of miniature robots to explore the very basis of good and evil. No, you aren't reading the back cover of a DVD in the "one dollar each, please get this trash out of our store" bin of your local blockbuster -this research is very real and very, very awesome.
