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[robots.net] robots.net - Day of the Androids at Hanson Robotics: Robot Technician at Hanson Robotics, assembled one of the Zeno robot prototypes from parts to a power up test in about an hour while I watched. It's impossible to tell from these photos but there's a tiny CCD camera behind Zeno's right eye.

[Scene-Stealers] Top 10 Coolest Movie Robots » Scene-Stealers: I’m still a big proponent of this misunderstood Spielberg-by-way-of-Kubrick sci-fi film set in a future full of “mechas,” and Haley Joel Osment’s portrayal of the creepy/sad robot boy David is one of the reasons I like it so much. Osment is devastating as the little android that just wants to love and be loved and injects the movie with so much pathos that it’s impossible not to feel sorry for the little guy.

[Cracked: All Posts] Robots | Cracked.com: The Controller-Bot can usually only be stopped by destroying its power source, which is conveniently located in the robot's control room, so that it can attempt to thwart you by swinging its glowing red eye around on whatever spindly mechanism it is attached to and also by using persuasive reasoning.  And so that the Controller-Bot can deliver one final, humanizing soliloquy before the life ebbs from its now-seemingly-innocent visage.

[GreenInvolvement.com] The Fourth Law of Robotics - Part I - GreenInvolvement.com: There are two ways to settle this very practical issue: one isto endow the robot with the ability to conduct a Converse TuringTest (to separate humans from other life forms) - the other isto somehow "barcode" all the robots by implanting some remotelyreadable signaling device inside them (such as a RFID - RadioFrequency ID chip). Both present additional difficulties.

[ARTERI] ARTERI | Art + Culture | Malaysia + Southeast Asia: The event will explore the cultural history of the phenomenon, robots in everyday use and the importance of artificial intelligence for the development and self-image of society. Robot Dreams is a platform for diverse scientists, artists and cultural historians to pursue the social, cultural historical and artistic implications of the subject.

[Queen's Journal: Latest stories] Domo arigato, Mr. Robotnik? - Queen's Journal: Although the concept of inhuman or superhuman embodied intelligences has existed for at least as long as the golem, the scientific manifestation of the concept only officially entered the English language in 1956, when scientist John McCarthy described an intelligent agent as one that can perceive and interact with its environment, and act in its own best interest.

[EnlightenNext Editors' Blog] Will Androids Ever Feel Real? The Turing Test and Cultural Autism: Dennett and Hofstadter’s book went into that terrain also–leading to the conclusion that we actually have no idea and that there is no real way of knowing. What emerges through their inquiry is the sense of an extremely alienated narcissism: “All I know is what I experience, and I have no idea where that comes from.” (Which gets awfully close to the solipsism of not being able to tell if anything is real outside of one’s own perception.) Whenever I read the work of almost any of these thinkers (oh, how do I know that they are thinking?), I experience a strange kind of flatness and impenetrability in their work. I don’t mean that I don’t understand it: the logic may be selective but it is impeccable on its own terms.

[Major Spoilers] Ten robots that could kick the Terminator's ass all the time ...: The Terminators may seem unstoppable, as they’re always coming back in the final minutes of the film to give the audience one more scare, before succumbing to a final blast to the head, but Ultron is a robot that takes a licking and keeps on ticking.  This is mostly due to the whim of the writer, and the fact that comic book deaths are never really final, but for this list we’re going to credit an adamantium shell, and concussion blasts.  The T-800 series can pound away all day without making a dent, while a few concussion blasts from Ultron will topple the Terminator army in a few minutes.

[Clicks 365] Clicks 365 » Artificial Intelligent Android Battery Charging ...: A $5000 artificially intelligent robotic android is not cheap. Indeed, you will need to look into battery charging strategies and perhaps make sure that your robot comes with solar panels.

[3D Models, Website Templates and Illustrations blog | Templates.com] Robots vs People - Striking 3D Perspective. Part II | Templates.com: These awesome images develop the theme of innovative creatures that possess the human appearance, but at the same time they are highest qualitative ranking androids. The mentioned above spitting illustrations of people and robots create a strong and ambiguous impression: on one side they are similar to people (in their appearance) and on the other they represent eye-catching metal surfaces and intricate schemes.

[Only Good Movies Blog] Top 85 Robot Movies: The Terminator - Arnold plays a cyborg who travels .Silent Running - In the future, all plant life on Earth has died, but a few are still preserved in a greenhouse orbiting the planet.

[3D Models, Website Templates and Illustrations blog | Templates.com] Robots Parade! The 20 Greatest and Most Famous Robots in Movies of ...: Before his appearance, they tended to lack personality characteristics, being simple artificial machines. Of course, there are many other robots, androids, humanoids that didn't get into our collection.

[Bob's Plain 'ol Blog] Bob's Plain 'ol Blog » Blog Archive » Summer 2009 Anime Season ...: The story will center on Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yutaka at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant.

[Second Life Blogs : All Content - All Communities] How about them Bots? - Second Life Blogs: Being a realist, however, I recall what Jagger tells us, namely, "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and therefore acknowlege that in order to have people give me something I value, like money, I have to give them something that they value.  And if they feel that bots give them more value for less outlay than humans for service jobs, well then, it's my time to go find some other job that I can do better, rather than go to Linden Lab as the in-world government and demand that they be forced to hire me when their free choice isn't to do so.

[Technology Review Feed - arXiv blog] Technology Review: Cutting-Edge Robots Show Off in Japan: The evolution of intelligent robots is kind of inevitable at this point - With the sheer amount of research devoted to robotics, hopefully we will end up with intelligent robots that help out to begin with in the health care field - where they are urgently needed.

[Latest Activity on INSILICO] Synthetics, sentience & citizenship - InSilico: As an example of plots that could come from it, let's imagine the Underground considers LAI androids and virtuals as the equivalent of humans, while the corporations would consider them like inferiors, until they "prove" they achieved full sentience. Now a LAI android belonging to Gemini Corps willing to be granted a full citizenship would have to go through lengthy series of Turing Tests or Sentience Quotient...

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