Happy Halloween!

October 31st, 2009 :: 4 Comments

Since today is Halloween, I’ve decided to post a few scary and/or creepy looking robots.

Happy Halloween!

::follow-up:: The elderly will become the first logical target in a robot takeover

September 9th, 2009 :: 1 Comment

Hopefully you’ve already read the original post.  More information has been found, and it really proves that personal robot helpers at home an in hospitals is a poor choice.

“For the first time, robots are safe enough and inexpensive enough to do meaningful work in a residential environment,” said Rod Grupen, a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.

Robots really aren’t safe, they just aren’t sophisticated enough to cause trouble yet.  Having these early generation robots accepted by the public means that more advanced robots will be well received.  Those are the robots we need to worry about.

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