Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a 3 year, nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research communication between robots and the elderly and to eventually write software to allow robots to help healthy but immobile seniors.
On the surface this seems like a great plan; robots will be able to make the lives of those they are helping much better, while relieving family members of care duties. Ultimately, this will lead to complete integration of the robot helpers with the lives of the elderly.
Everyone has had one of those days were their brain just didn’t seem to work correctly. You couldn’t remember anything, important or otherwise, and you stumbled through easy tasks like your brain was in a fog. Maybe you hit fell on your head one to many times as a kid or you partied to hard when you were 13. For whatever reason, you decide you want a brand new brain. Well, in 10 years you may be able to do just that. It will probably cost way too much money at first, kind of like this.
“I absolutely believe it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is financial. It is an extremely expensive project and not all is yet secured,” said Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland.
This video shows an incredibly fast robotic hand with an advanced vision system. It is able to do some amazing things at speeds that are mind boggling.
An impressive video. The speed that the hand operates at is amazing, and it’s vision seems just as fast but also accurate. It is a very good demonstration of the extreme speeds that robots are able to operate at.
But they real issue at hand is how terrifying it is that something can move that quickly. All I can think about are machine guns on each finger. With finger guns that move that quickly, what chance would a group a humans stand against it?
Robot Armageddon: A site dedicated to the totally rational but unbelievably morbid fear that the development of robots is moving far too quickly and that robots will eventually kill us all.
Unfortunately this statement is semi-hypocritical, since a a basic robot was used to write this. If it wasn’t for the progress made in science, engineering, computers and robotics, you would probably be sitting in your living room listening to AM radio.
But in all seriousness, it has to stop. Current research involving reverse engineering the human brain, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, etc is going too far. Read on and you will soon agree with the community @RobotArmageddon.
