with Nick Bostrom at the Future of Humanity Institute, has noted: if you build just one entirely functional automated car, you now have the template for 1 billion. Replace one human worker with a general-purpose artificial intelligence, and the total unemployment of the speci

this is awesome <3

papers on the uncanny valley, and androids

a history of cybernetic animals and early robots

"Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space."

The goal of the CMUcam project is to provide simple vision capabilities to small embedded systems in the form of an intelligent sensor.

by the always delightful Jim Rossignol

"LivingConcepts was written to enable students of the Algorithmic Art and Artificial Intelligence class given by Prof. Remko Scha at the University of Amsterdam to explore the often difficult concepts that are presented in the course. "

"aims to design the first every fully biological (no silicon components) amorphous massively-parallel robot"

"30 minute exposure of a Roomba's cleaning path."

"Japan’s love of robots lies in the history of the ‘Karakuri Ningyo’. Until now there has been little interest from outside Japan regarding the Karakuri Ningyo craft, and its influence on technology and the arts."

"hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. When a zombie is poked with a sharp object, for example, it does not feel any pain. However, it behaves exactly as if it does feel pain (..), but it does not actually have the experience of pain as a putative 'normal' person does.

funky !

it's not a microscope...

robots, bombs & swords

Robot Arm

Simple, small, ugly silly stupid game, but the ai/physics makes it hilarious. Should be renamed to Drunk Sumotori, because they're so clumsy :p