Entries tagged with: Robotics

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Well, You Can Tell By the Way I Use My Walk...

...I've got robot legs, but no mouth to talk. And again! With the shoving! Boston Dynamics really likes to abuse its robots. (For the whippersnappers in the audience who don't get the title reference, here. Yes, the usage is ironic....

Posted on October 26, 2009 2:02 PM

Cascio's Laws of Robotics: The Motion Picture

Last March, I gave a talk in Menlo Park entitled "Cascio's Laws of Robotics." I've already posted a link to the slides I used, and to essays and interviews covering related topics. Now -- finally -- the video of the...

Posted on August 2, 2009 2:47 PM

New Fast Company: Autonomy Sans

My latest Fast Company essay is up: Autonomy without Intelligence asks what "high-frequency trading" says about the future of military robots. But that situation--humans on one side, humans + computer/robot systems on the other--won't last. And when both sides of...

Posted on July 30, 2009 12:29 PM

That's Impossible: Real Terminators

Okay, managed to put together a collection of the scenes I'm in from the July 14 "That's Impossible" episode. Jamais Cascio segments from That's Impossible: Real Terminators from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo. I don't believe I will be in this...

Posted on July 19, 2009 11:44 AM

Ah, Robots

Here's the clip from this week's "That's Impossible" talking about the Big Dog robot. It's one of the small bits with me. :) (it starts about 30 seconds in...)...

Posted on July 17, 2009 10:44 AM

New Fast Company Column: Machine Ethics

My latest Fast Company column is up. "Machine Ethics" explores the question of what kinds of responsibilities we have with regards to the increasingly autonomous systems we create. It's based on the "Laws of Robotics" talk I gave a few...

Posted on April 9, 2009 10:16 AM

Resilience and Robots

My second column for Fast Company is now live: "Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Why the Future will be Flexible" is a "let's talk about resilience" piece for people who haven't encountered the argument before. Although it echoes some...

Posted on April 2, 2009 1:10 PM

Laws of Robotics

View more presentations from Jamais Cascio. Here's a sneak preview of the talk I'll be giving tomorrow....

Posted on March 21, 2009 7:43 PM

Cascio's Laws of Robotics

That's the title of the talk I'm giving this Sunday (March 22) at the "Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group" meeting-up that's meeting in Menlo Park (the one that's next to Palo Alto). The subtitle is "Building Intelligence in an...

Posted on March 19, 2009 9:49 PM

Topsight, February 12, 02008

Because "Bottomsight" just sounds too naughty. • Hot Cyborg Action: Industrial designer Hans Alexander Huseklepp wondered what would happen if you took the modern design aesthetic seen in simple prosthetics like eyeglasses, and applied it to more sophisticated prosthetics, like...

Posted on February 12, 2009 4:40 PM

Topsight: January 27, 2009

Okay, I gotta close these tabs... • Robots!: BoingBoing points to a chart at IEEE Spectrum showing the number of industrial robots per manufacturing worker. Top of the list: Japan, naturally, at 295 robots per 10,000 workers. Singapore is second...

Posted on January 27, 2009 5:35 PM

Wednesday Topsight, November 12, 2008

Tick tick ticking in my head. • Nature Does Geo: Nature's blog offers a handy chart comparing the costs and uncertainties surrounding the various commonly-discussed forms of geoengineering. Clip & save! (Note: More bars="better," not necessarily "more of this.") •...

Posted on November 12, 2008 7:33 PM

Monday Topsight, August 18, 2008

Special Future of War edition: robots, lasers, brain weapons, and a little thing called "strategic thinking." • 174th Robot Wing: The 174th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force has flown its last mission, and has been replaced by an...

Posted on August 18, 2008 3:51 PM

Robomotors

Brad Templeton wants you to stop driving. Templeton (Chairman of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, programmer, dot-com entrepreneur, inventor of the "dot com" domain name structure -- no kidding! -- and more) laments the tens of thousands of people killed every...

Posted on July 27, 2008 4:40 PM

For When the Metal Ones Decide to Come For You

(From Saturday Night Live, some years ago.) Be afraid....

Posted on July 22, 2008 12:55 PM

Please Don't Kick the Robots

If you follow the futures blogosphere at all -- or just read BoingBoing -- you've undoubtedly seen this video of the "packbot" called Big Dog: It's an interesting prototype, and a telling example of how rapidly we're moving into the...

Posted on March 27, 2008 3:35 PM

The Medical Panopticon

Web-enabled personal medical information technologies have been a standard item in the futurist's scrapbook for a few years now. It's one of those concepts that's hard to imagine not happening: the demographic, technological, and market pressures for Internet-mediated health technologies...

Posted on January 10, 2008 5:16 PM

Tuesday Topsight, July 3, 2007

Quickly: • Woz, Not Woz: The transcript of the R.U. Sirius show with Steve Wozniak is now up, if you're more inclined to read than to listen. Surprisingly, this transcript has already been Slashdotted. JAMAIS CASCIO: So what do you...

Posted on July 3, 2007 10:58 PM

Tuesday Topsight, May 22, 2007

Plowing through interesting links accumulated during my travel. • Lucky to be Alive: All of us are. Lucky to be alive, I mean. It turns out that, about 13,000 years ago, humankind came very close to extinction, courtesy of a...

Posted on May 22, 2007 6:33 PM

Saturday Topsight, April 21, 2007

• CardioBot: The Heartlander is an inch-long robot designed to crawl across the surface of a living, beating heart, in order to carry out various medical tasks. Inserting the Heartlander requires minimally-invasive surgery, potentially under local anesthetic (i.e., out-patient heart...

Posted on April 21, 2007 5:13 PM

Life and Love in the Uncanny Valley

There's a story I've seen about a philosopher who bet an engineer that he could make a robot that the engineer couldn't destroy. What the philosopher produced was a tiny little thing, covered in fur, that would squeak when touched...

Posted on December 12, 2006 2:17 PM

Tuesday Topsight, October 10, 2006

It's End of the World time at Open the Future Topsight! • MADH -- Mutually Assured Dark Humor: DEFCON proclaims itself to be the "World's First Genocide 'em up," and that bit of ad copy should tell you everything you...

Posted on October 10, 2006 4:27 PM

UEVs

New Scientist reports on the planned use of the Aerosonde drone to measure the conditions inside a hurricane, including the temperature, pressure, humidity and wind velocity. The Aerosonde will go where no human-crewed aircraft could -- just a few hundred...

Posted on September 20, 2006 2:40 PM

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