Monthly Archives: January 2009
Autonomous, self-feeding robot …
File under: OMFG WTF!?? DARPA (the kind, gentle Defense Agency that gave us the interwebs) is funding a project to develop a “robotic platform able to perform long-range, long-endurance military missions without the need for …refueling. The system is designed … Continue reading
Self-organizaing robots know where all our stuff is…
This from Wired Warehouses being increasingly (and efficiently) run by robot retrieval systems. Self organizing and efficient…you can even name them and call them pets. This is how our future robot overlords will manage to feed us and clean our … Continue reading
Facebook Knife Gangs and Big Brother?
BBC NewsBeat is running a story about Scottish police “patrolling” the internet for knife wielding gangs members. At least that’s what you’d think from the headline “Scottish police tackle internet knife gangs.” However, the two fresh faced coppers in the … Continue reading