Posts Tagged ‘robot news’
The CIA tried to make Cyborg Cats
It didn’t work. One reason is the simple fact of its very hard to train a cat. In case you haven’t noticed…or you are a cat lover…cats are dicks. The CIA thought it would be a great idea to create a cy...
Robots can tie shoes now (Video)
So the robots officially now just don’t need us anymore. We have taught them many things and now we have taught them to tie their own shoes. My guess is this makes us humans officially useless to the robots so the Ap...
Boston Dynamics’ BigDog Robot Can Throw Cinder Blocks at You (Video)
So not only are we making robots bigger, stronger, and faster; we are teaching them to throw cinder blocks. WHY!? When they take over is that what you want? You can’t even outrun this particular robot anyway but it cou...
A Monkey that Controls a Robot with its Thoughts (Video)
Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really. Can we use our brains to directly control machines — without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing...
Robo-Pets | Giving veterinary students hands-on experience
Maybe one day we can get these robo-pets to a point where they are almost as good as having a real live pet around. You might then not to have to think of too many stories to tell you kids when Fido kicks the bucket. [pu...
Roboy | The Robot Toddler
Every time I see a toddler I think “man couldn’t we make these things better?” Well finally technology is catching up with us and now we can make robot kids. I wonder if they will still ask dumb questions....
A robot that learns by watching
FINE! Just ignore my warnings. Go ahead keep teaching them things like this. Don’t come running to me when the robot rebellion / take over happens. I’ll already be dead because the neighbor taught his robot ho...
Mind-Controlled Robot Avatars Almost Here
So then my questions is how close are we to the robot take over. Robot controlled human avatars? I can see it. Let me offer this to the company creating these robots. Send me one. I will write a review using the robot. Or may...
DARPA – Robots that do push-ups
I have warned all of you time and time again now, STOP BUILDING ROBOTS LIKE THIS! Have we learned nothing from Hollywood? This is the beginning of the end.
Jumping Robot (Video)
Yet another post from your friends at HYR about how we keep improving robots and making them more powerful then us. This is so in the future we can do a post entitled “We Told You So!” when the take over happens. ...
Robot Firefighter SAFFiR
SAFFiR robot could be putting out fires on Navy ships If there’s one thing that you don’t want happening on board a ship, it’s a fire. People on board burning ships can’t simply run out onto the streets,...
Robots Can Run Faster than Humans Now…Great…(Video)
You can list this as another mistake the humans made in helping the robots destroy our race in the future…now they are faster than us. Video: Darpa’s Robotic Cheetah Sets Racing Record Trust me, gym rat. Your outrageo...
Robofish – The Leader
Another step towards the day the robots take over. thanks gizmag! Robot becomes a leader among fish A couple of years ago, a team of scientists from the University of Leeds succeeded in getting live stickleback fish to follow a...
Astronaut and Robonaut “R2″ shake hands on the ISS
Immediately after the handshake, R2 broke his neck and threw him out of the air lock. Ok that isn’t true but it is how Hollywood would like us to believe it should have gone down. The real story from gizmag.com NASA has b...
New Robot is “The Greatest Toy in the Universe”
source gizmag.com Inventor claims this robot is “the greatest toy in the universe,” might be right If you’re going to call your invention “the greatest (fill in the blank) in the universe,” youR...
Robot “Artist” Steals “Jobs”?
When the machines take over, will they first attack us with their logic and then blow our minds with their creativity? I don’t know, but it seems that this guy “Paul” has mastered art in that I don’t get...
