Robot finger can feel textures
A robot finger is given an artificial skin that behaves somewhat like real skin. With the right sensors underneath, the finger can tell different textures apart, just as we can. And at Slate: 3 robot...
View ArticlePhilip K Dick Android: the book
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K Dick’s Robotic Resurrection is a non-fiction popular science book published by Henry Holt (a division of MacMillan) and written by me. It’s the...
View ArticleThe new Turing Test
To celebrate Alan Turing’s 100th birthday, a massive Turing Test competition was held at Bletchley Park, the secret headquarters where Turing and others cracked the Germans’ codes during WWII. The...
View ArticleThe Bleeding Man
In 18th Century France, Jacques de Vaucanson built exquisite wind-up robots; a doll that plays a dulcimer, a duck that not only walks but excretes, and other marvels. He wasn’t the only one; as Max...
View ArticleThere’s no such thing as a moral robot
A new type of theorist has emerged, the roboethicist, who is concerned with the morality of autonomous machines, particularly military robots. Lethal autonomous systems are already inching their way...
View ArticleThe Future of Artificial Intelligence
As it gets better and better it will be less like people. It’s going to be its own kind of intelligence. -Gary Marcus, NYU When will AI get to the point where it is as powerful as a human brain? Or...
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Meet Atlas: the future of military robotics
Boston Dynamics, in partnership with DARPA, have developed Atlas – a humanoid robot that will be used for ‘friendly’ tasks such as disaster response. Atlas has been developed for the Robotics...
View ArticleSelf Assembling Robots – Or The Next Rubik’s Cube
MIT Researchers are reporting that they have created a system for self assembling robots… almost. http://mashable.com/2013/10/06/self-assembling-robots/ In a cute video they show a collection of...
View ArticlePhilip K Dick Android: the book
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K Dick’s Robotic Resurrection is a non-fiction popular science book published by Henry Holt (a division of MacMillan) and written by me. It’s the...
View ArticleThe new Turing Test
To celebrate Alan Turing’s 100th birthday, a massive Turing Test competition was held at Bletchley Park, the secret headquarters where Turing and others cracked the Germans’ codes during WWII. The...
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