First off, apologies for a very content thin December – thanks to everybody that continued to drop by the site despite the lack of any new and terrifying robot news. January is looking to be content rich, filled with stories about crazy military robots and projects, progress with computer/brain interfaces, all kinds of scary science and more.
To end the year, a few “Best of 2009″ links about robots are below.
Top 50 Robots in 2009 @ Trendhunter
A Review of the Best Robots in 2009 @ Singularity Hub
Nifitiest Robots of 2009 @ Discover
Have a safe New Years and be sure to come back to Robot Armageddon in 2010!
How will robotic personalities evolve in the future?
Robots that have the ability to think and make their own choices is a fear that has evolved thanks to science fiction books and movies, but how exactly can a robot make those decisions? Within a group of people, each person will make differing choices when faced with similar obstacles and stimuli based on previous experiences and a unique personality. Faced with a similar choice, it is usually assumed that a robot would make a decision based purely on the programming it houses and therefore leave the robot devoid of a personality. This is not going to be the case any longer, because scientists have developed the ability to give robots a unique and changing personality based on robotic genes and chromosomes.
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