Should Robots Have Genders?
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Falling in love bends genders (Reuters)
Falling in love bends genders (Reuters)
05/05/2004 01:57 PMReuters - Falling in love -- that crazy, blissful feeling -- causes
gender-bender changes in men and women's testosterone levels.
Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!
Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!
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Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan
Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan
12/17/2004 06:40 PMResearch and Markets has announced the addition of Next-Generation
Personal Robot Market 2004 to their offering. [PRWEB Oct 18, 2004]
Better Looking Robots
Better Looking Robots
02/10/2004 03:00 AMAs robot technology continues to improve, it's becoming possible to
give
our robots much more interesting appearances. For some designers, like
David Hanson this
means exploring the uncanny
valley where robots become androids that look almost (but not quite)
human. For others designers, like White Box Robotics, this
means the chance to make robots that look as good as any we've seen in
Star Wars. David Hanson is making news again this week in the Deleware
News Journal and Newsday.com.
The White Box Robotics 912 HMV, meanwhile, was covered today by an ABC
News SCI/Tech article.
FBI Robots.txt
FBI Robots.txt
09/09/2004 09:02 AMCryptome points us to this
link: the robots.txt file at the FBI's site. I'll save you
the click:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
This isn't the first time the government has shown some nervousness
about their Web site content: The White House Vs. Search Spiders.
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Using PHP instead of robots.txt
Using PHP instead of robots.txt
04/14/2005 07:30 PMPHP can be more than just a scripting language used for constructing
dynamic Web pages at request time. One application is to use PHP
integration with the Web server to record and potentially deal with
security issues. Ken Coar raises eyebrows with his thoughts on using
PHP scripts instead of normally static files like robots.txt
robots, welcome!
robots, welcome!
01/06/2004 05:35 AMThe Relaunch of Mr. Pants .. Mister Pants is BACK! ..
Misterpants
misterpants.com/01/index.html
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"robots.txt"
"robots.txt"
10/28/2003 11:09 PMRobots, robots, robots
Robots, robots, robots
01/16/2004 01:00 PMThe robots are here to stay. Here are some of the most recent
advancements in robot technology
Ice Robots Are Coming
Ice Robots Are Coming
03/14/2005 06:03 PM
We dig robotic rovers,
so robotic rovers able to traverse sub-zero Antarctic ice sheets while
receiving power from the sun and wind are always enough to catch our
eye. Carnegie Mellon tells us that their Nomad rover (which earlier
trekked 135 miles through Chile's Atacama Desert and across
Antarctica) is being prepped to search for signs of living
microorganisms on the surface of the ice. Outfitted with a wind
turbine for the first time, the Nomad made it 6 miles through the snow
and ice of the frozen Lake Mascoma while researchers studied the
possibility of powering it both with solar and wind energy. Further
development will include an ice coring and sampling device as well as
a fluorescence spectrometer. (Thanks, James!)
Robot
Deployed for Antartic Expedition [CarnegieMellon]
The Robots are Coming
The Robots are Coming
12/06/2003 11:15 PMThe Return of Robots.net
The Return of Robots.net
09/12/2004 10:52 AMSorry about the lack of robot news over the last week. The Robots.net
server has moved to a new hosting location. We now have twice the
bandwidth available as well as more reliable service. Other
improvements to the site itself are in the works for the future. I
have
a quite a few backed-up stories that I'll try to post over the next
few
days to get the site caught up again. Thanks for your patience!
Better Robots Through Entomology
Better Robots Through Entomology
12/12/2003 09:01 PMA new Georgia
Tech Research News article describes the efforts of scientists to
use automated animal movement analysis to improve robot interaction.
As
part of the BioTracking
project, Georgia Tech researchers at the BORG Lab are developing
several techniques for automatically tracking and modeling the
movements
of social insects such as ants
and bees. By studying the sequence of motions of the insects, the
researchers hope to reverse engineer the algorithms that drive them
and
implement those algorithms in software on simulators and actual
robots. If you're interested in learning more about their plans, you
may
want to attend the International Workshop on the
Mathematics and Algorithms of Social Insects Dec 15-17 at the
Georgia Institute
of Technology.
They're Robots? Those Beasts!
They're Robots? Those Beasts!
09/15/2004 06:57 PMNew York Times Sep 15 2004 11:36PM GMT
Robots Of The Victorian Era
Robots Of The Victorian Era
12/22/2003 08:51 PMprostoalex writes "Somehow the robotic inventions of the 19th century
are terribly under-appreciated. But when you read about a new Aibo or
running humanoid ...
Triumph of the Robots
Triumph of the Robots
01/08/2004 08:27 PMThe robot's controller, Mountain View-based Google Inc., has a value,
according to the business press, of $20 billion, give or take $5
billion. ...
Animal Robots
Animal Robots
09/16/2004 09:21 AMmusic (for robots)
music (for robots)
08/16/2004 09:36 PMmusic (for robots) .. blogger
music.for-robots.com
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Tin robots in impressionistic oil
Tin robots in impressionistic oil
01/24/2004 03:36 AM
Eric Joyner's gallery of his impressionistic oil-paintings of tin
robots is endless fun. He sells a bunch of them as prints.
Link
(
Thanks, Brian!)
Robots and the Rest of Us
Robots and the Rest of Us
05/13/2004 04:57 AMWhat do you do about fear and loathing on the human-machine frontier?
Convene a meeting of robot ethicists, of course. By Bruce Sterling
from Wired magazine.
Wi-Fi Security Robots?
Wi-Fi Security Robots?
04/18/2004 04:31 AMrobots in disguise...
robots in disguise...
06/05/2004 11:53 AM
transformers breakdancing. (flash video)
Wearable Robots
Wearable Robots
06/14/2004 06:03 PMRemember the scene in the first Alien movie where Ripley fights the
Queen baddie using a semi-robotic lifting machine? Well, it looks like
that technology is getting closer to real-world applications. Inventor
Steven Jacobsen is s
howing off a prototype of his device, and is working with robotics
gurus Sarcos to make it a
production reality.
Strap it on, go for a walk on the treadmill or up and down stairs
while carrying a 90-kilogram load on your back, and it feels as if
youre carrying nothing, says Jacobsen. You can even balance on one
foot with a person on your back and barely feel any more fatigued than
if you were standing by yourself, he adds. The exoskeleton adds
strength because it stays in parallel with the users legs and pushes
on the ground.
Military uses seem to be first in line for this device, but I can
think of lots of other uses for it in industry, construction, even in
nursing homes — anywhere lifting and lifting-related injuries
are involved. I don't think they'll have one ready for my backyard
landscaping project though.
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I For One Welcome Our New Robots
Overlords
I For One Welcome Our New Robots
Overlords
06/23/2004 03:37 PM
Captured! by Robots
is a band made up of one
man and
the robots he buit to accompany him. Only the robots -
DRMBOT,
GTRBOT,
AUTOMOTOM,
and the
HEADLESS
HORNSMEN - revolted and enslaved him. Now he has no choice but to
serve their evil ends - touring the Western United States and
enslaving everyone they come into contact with through song.
Some
videos of them
in action. (.mov)
Robots on duty
Robots on duty
06/24/2004 03:00 AMUSA Today Jun 24 2004 6:55AM GMT
Robots in Hospitals
Robots in Hospitals
07/06/2004 04:47 PMAg Robots from UIUC
Ag Robots from UIUC
07/11/2004 08:29 PMAgricultural robots are on the way, according to a recent press
release from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UICU
agricultural engineer Tony Grift
has been working on several farm robots including a tiny, $150 legged
robot called the Ag Ant, designed to walk through crops looking for
weeds. Grift and other researchers have also developed larger robots
to
test navigation and sensor technology in cornfields. Even stranger
ideas
are in the works, like a robot
that could spit chemicals on plants like an ink-jet, preventing wasted
chemicals typical of current crop spraying methods. Photos of
some of Grift's farm robots can be found on Gizmodo
and in Roland
Piquepaille's blog. Grift has also advocated the use of Lego
Mindstorm robots as an educational tool for agricultural students.
Robots Protest
Robots Protest
05/20/2004 12:53 PMI kept telling you guys this was going to happen, but no, you had to
keep bossing them around. Read...
Robots, The Movie
Robots, The Movie
08/05/2004 10:52 AM
Although they claim to be the first
pictures from Blue Sky Studios' upcoming animated film Robots,
I'm fairly sure I've seen at least the design of this unit before.
Stil, robots! With fins!
Read -
ROBOTS - erste Bilder [MysanDE via CultOfMac]
Dances with Robots
Dances with Robots
02/10/2004 03:00 AMMIT student Sommer Gentry
and her husband Dorry Segev
have developed a highly evolved system of robot communication and
control via haptic signaling. The system is better known as "Swing
Dancing". They started with two human swing dancers. From there they
progressed to "Jedi Swing Dancing" in which two blindfolding humans
dance (thus proving that haptic communication alone is sufficient for
human-to-human dancing). Now they've progress to a human-robot dance
in
which the human communicates with a robot arm haptically. The robot or
the human can lead. Read more in the MIT press
release. Or for the full story see Sommer's research
papers on Haptic-only lead and follow dancing and related subjects.
Roaming robots
Roaming robots
07/25/2004 09:08 AMChicago Tribune Jul 25 2004 12:15PM GMT
More Flying Robots
More Flying Robots
04/08/2005 08:06 PMThere have been several flying robots in the news lately. A Marine
Corps News story describes their Wasp
Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), a hand-launched robot plane with Kevlar
wings and side-looking cameras. Another
MAV being designed by Honeywell for DARPA is described in a News.com
article. And, last, is an autonomous helicopter being developed at
New Mexico State University's Rio-Robo Lab,
described in an Albuquerque
Tribune article and an earlier NMSU
press release.
Why Robots Won't Take Over the World
Why Robots Won't Take Over the World
03/14/2005 06:03 PMNoel Sharkey wants to
debunk the myth of robots taking over the world according to a
Yorkshire
Post article.
"Everybody wants to hear that robots are going to
take over the world but it's not going to happen..." Why, you may
ask? Because despite claims that modern robots are as advanced as rats
or other mammals, Sharkey says they're closer to the level of
bacteria.
He also comments on the continuing decline in the number of engineers
and reminisces about beating his school headmaster at chess. For more
on
Noel Sharkey, a detailed bibliography of
his research publications is available.
Conscious robots?
Conscious robots?
11/11/2003 11:45 AMAn article in today's New York Times asks a big question that we may
never know the answer to, but which we're going to be asking a lot in
a few years: Can robots ever become conscious? Read...
Rights for robots?
Rights for robots?
10/29/2003 11:23 AMGlenn Reynolds has an interesting column up at TechCentralStation
about rights for robots and machine intelligences, something that
sooner or later is going to become a very big issue. Read...
Robots In Disguise
Robots In Disguise
03/20/2003 08:30 AM The
Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of...the
Iraqis. There's not a lot of meat to the link, but I thought it
might bring a smile to somebody's face.
The robots.txt file is here
The robots.txt file is here
10/28/2003 11:07 PMthe White House website
whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
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whtehouse.gov robots.txt
whtehouse.gov robots.txt
10/28/2003 11:07 PMkeeps search engines from crawling a bunch of directories .. not to
index Iraq-related directories .. subsequent internet searches ..
Whitehouse.gov Robots.txt .. technical explaination .. excluded items
.. just recently .. Keith
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People Are Robots, Too. Almost
People Are Robots, Too. Almost
10/30/2003 11:57 PMA new JPL
Spotlight article ponders the differences between humans and robots.
Topics covered include current research into biologically inspired
robots, deliberative control vs reactive control, and new approaches
to
implementing robot behavior using fuzzy logic and neural networks.
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Micro Flying Robots Everywhere
Micro Flying Robots Everywhere
08/19/2004 09:04 PMA recent press
release from Epson about the FR-II micro robot has generated a lot
of story submissions lately. The FR-II is powered by two ultrasonic
motors which drive opposing rotors. The tiny robot is just 136mm x
85mm,
weigh 12.3 grams including two gyros, batteries, bluetooth link, and a
digital camera. It has a flight time of about 3 minutes. You can see
photos and read more about the robot at the BBC, space.com,
and Slashdot.
Meanwhile, Gizmodo
reminds us of the Pixelito which, while it is an
R/C helicopter and not a true robot, weighs in at only 6.9 grams.
World's Smallest Flying Robots
World's Smallest Flying Robots
12/31/2003 09:39 PMLinux Electrons has an article about the World's Smallest Flying
Robots being
unveiled. Unlike some other micro air
vehicles, these robots have onboard batteries (no power tether) and
are autonomous via radio link (as a side note, Rog-a-matic emailed me
that it could be that radio links
to robots are patented now?, weird!). Anyway, these micro fliers
could be used from anything like surveilance to hobby toys. It's a
small world after all!
David Hanson Speaks on Humanoid Robots
David Hanson Speaks on Humanoid Robots
11/19/2003 08:14 PMThe University of Texas at Dallas has announced
that David Hanson will be speaking on the future of "Human-Like"
Robots
on Thursday, November 20 at 5:30 p.m., in Room 1.112 of the Conference
Center on the UTD campus in Richardson, Texas. The talk is free and
open
to the public. David Hanson is best
known for K-Bot, the human-like robot head that has prompted many a
bad pun here on
robots.net. Hanson's robot head is intended to be a duplicate of his
girl friend's head. The head is so life-like that some feel it may be
a
good test of Masahiro
Mori's "Uncanney Valley" theory.
Fighting Robots Highlight Japan
Technology
Fighting Robots Highlight Japan
Technology
08/12/2004 12:55 PMAP via Daily Press Aug 12 2004 5:04PM GMT
Fighting Robots Highlight Japan
Technology (AP)
Fighting Robots Highlight Japan
Technology (AP)
08/12/2004 01:13 PMAP - The ring sits in the spotlight of a tense, packed auditorium and
the jittery fighters await the bell at their red and blue corners.
Like any fight, there's always the danger of a punishing uppercut or
left hook. But these boxers have even more worries — like battery
failure and software bugs. The contenders are robots fighting in a
special kickboxing match that's held twice a year in Japan, a leading
nation in the robotics world.
The Pictures That Lost The War - [Sunday
Herald]
The Pictures That Lost The War - [Sunday
Herald]
05/03/2004 02:23 AMTorture and Humiliation by American and British Soldiers Replace
Torture and Humiliation by Saddam Hussein. That's What Bush Calls
Liberation. He's a Sick, Elitist, Lying Coward, That Bush .. The
Pictures That Lost The War
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Fear the Robots
Fear the Robots
03/22/2005 04:31 PMThe robot threat may be a
hoax, but the lack of
reaction from the C-Span host strongly suggests that he's a secret
android killing machine.
My NYT Mag piece on robots
My NYT Mag piece on robots
11/15/2003 02:18 PMI wrote a piece on home robotics for the New York Times Magazine as
part of a
section on Home Automation with contributions from James
Gleick, Paul Boutin, Clive Thompson and others; it shipped today:
Home robots were the jet-pack future's sweetest lie: personal
assistants working tirelessly and without complaint -- companions,
servants and pets. They would be nimble and able, and computers would
be blinking omniscient behemoths.
How wrong they were. Just as millions of users defied the first
engineers' narrow visions of what a home computer could be, and
figured out how to make PC's bend to their will, the cheapness and
flexibility of commodity computer components are now enabling a new
hobbyist revolution in home robotics. C.P.U.'s -- the brains of a PC
-- are cheap like borscht, and the sensors that allow computers to
see, hear, feel and smell have likewise plummeted in cost. (Pinhead
digital cameras, for example, are so cheap these days that it's hard
to find a pocket-size gizmo that doesn't have one built in.) All it
takes to turn these pieces into a robot is packaging the brains and
the senses atop a mobile platform and stirring in some clever code.
Link
(
Thanks, Paul)
Swarming robots
Swarming robots
11/14/2003 01:46 PMiRobot, the company behind the Roomba, doesn't just make robotic
vacuum cleaners. They're also building robots that could group
together in swarms and be used to clear landmines or rescue earthquake
victims:The point of the Swarm project is to be able to program lots
of robots to communicate with each other using proprietary Behavior
Language software. And we're not talking about 10 or even 100 bots,
but 10,000 or more. The name "Swarm" comes from the robots' ability to
work like insects... The robots communicate using an infrared light
signal that begins with a chosen leader (which has an antenna on its
head) and then spreads to the rest. So essentially, they "talk" to
each other. When this happens, the lights begin flashing. Each light
has an accompanying sound. The sounds tell the robots how far away
they are from each other.Read...
Will Robots Ever Become Conscious?
Will Robots Ever Become Conscious?
11/12/2003 01:31 PMThe New York Times has an aricle that asks,
Can Robots Become Conscious? Well, I don't know, and neither do
they, and neither does just
about anyone else. It seems that before we can know whether robots
can attain consciousness, we
first have to figure out just what consciousness is. Then, and only
then can we know if a robot
has attained it. Some, like
Hans Morevec, think humans are just a grand machine and if so we can
someday build one.
But others think humans and their consciousness could be more like
something spiritual or a
quantum effect
or an electromagnetic
field? And, if so, we have to figure out what that more is if we
plan to
simulate it. Perhaps robots already are conscious, just not at a
level of consciousness that we consider truly conscious? Or perhaps,
if we can just pass the
Turing test, then that would be good enough? And, well,
if we make a sentient being, what then?
Should Robots Have Genders?
