Topic: Robotics

Full Text: Oy, Robot!

Are we doomed to some postapocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off.READ»

Oy, Robot!

Are we doomed to some postapocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off.READ»

Remember, It's Only a Movie ...

Will scientists and engineers produce artificially intelligent humanoids like Spielberg's David within the next 100 years? Will robots learn to accept and return human love? How far away is the future? Even the gurus disagree.READ»

Why Is Jeff Bezos Investing $7 Million in Heartland Robotics?

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, coined the phrase Artificial Artificial Intelligence, and invested in human spaceflight startup Blue Origin. Now he's expanding his portfolio to include robots.Specifically, he's investing in Heartland ...READ»

All-Terrain Tribot Rolls Where Man Fears To Tread

The Tribot may look a little like something you'd find barring traffic at a construction site, but actually it's a sophisticated robot designed to gather data for climate and environmental research from difficult-to-reach ...READ»

Filene's Eco Pods is an Adaptable, Biofuel-Producing Building

Algae-based biofuels have become increasingly popular over the past few months, with even biofuel-aversive oil companies like BP and Exxon getting in on the action. Boston-based Howeler Yoon Architects want to bring that interest ...READ»

Making My Decisions

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on cognitive computers that accurately gauge the intent of users, remember user behavior and experience, and enable people to invoke simulated experts to help analyze situations ...READ»

Eco Building Rebuilds Itself Using Robotic Arms and Eco Power

We've seen every kind of architectural concept related to green design, but here's an exciting new one that may also be the oddest. It seems to borrow from a NASA design concept; it constantly re-builds itself and grows biofuel on its ...READ»

New Product Development Tools

According to Don Debelak in his book, How to Bring a Product  To Market for Less Than $5,000,  a product can be developed by "taking apart existing products and use their parts to  make a new product."  Well, that ...READ»

Technology Tomorrow

How scientists and engineers will transform the way we work and play through bots, artificial intelligence, and Jetsons-inspired gizmos that are limited only by their creators' imagination.READ»

Fox News Eats Words on EATR Robot

Fox News corrects itself: No, a biomass eating robot will not be munching on "dead bodies."READ»

This Will Make Your Skin Crawl

A new concept could let your own epidermis become a medical monitor.READ»

In Defense of Slapping a Robot

By inflicting pain on entities with artificial intelligence we enable them to become truly intelligent.READ»

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

EATR: A Robot That'll Forage Its Own Fuel

The Pentagon is developing a new robot that can power itself with biomass--and, as Fox News gleefully conjectures, dead people.READ»

Why Market Your Company With Stick-on Emotion When You Can Tap the Real Thing?

Why market your company with stick-on emotion when you can tap the real thing?READ»

• Making Nice

The Nuts and Bolts of Business

The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab is building the future of business -- literally. Think C-3P0 with degrees in astrophysics, marine biology, and home economics.READ»

Fabulist Ray Kurzweil Tackles Transportation Problem with Nanobots

The new issue of GOOD magazine is a timely one, dedicated entirely to transportation. It includes an interactive, before and after graphic showing exactly how urban planners would go about making a forbidding city street ...READ»