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Robots that Live Among Us
As we all learned from Terminator, artificially intelligent machines will one day conduct a systematic extermination of all human life forms and turn the Earth into one gigantic robot playground. But until that day comes, robots are our friends. From heavy industry to the toy ...
'The Matrix'  Fulfilled: EATR Military Robots to Use Biomatter as Fuel
'The Matrix' Fulfilled: EATR Military Robots to Use Biomatter as Fuel
switched.com — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development organization for the Department of Defense,... aims to "maintain the technological superiority of the U.S military." They seek to accomplish this goal by developing ... (more) 'The Matrix' Fulfilled: EATR Military Robots to Use ...
Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan
botjunkie.com — Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 1 of July , 2009 at 9:24 am Retro Robots I... don’t speak any Japanese, so unfortunately I’ve only been able to understand little snippets of information, but according to an article on Robot Watch, an autonomy of ... (more) Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan
Carnivorous robots
Carnivorous robots
hackaday.com — Artists [James Auger] and [Jimmy Loizeau] have put out this display of carnivorous robots . Pictured above... is a clock that is powered by a microbial fuel cell. The clock is equipped with a scroll of sticky paper for catching the flies which it ... (more) Carnivorous robots
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