State-of-the-art REAL ROBOTS
The scariest thing you’ll see this Halloween
STOP THE PRESSES! As we were going to print with this newsletter, we ran across an article that may be more skin-crawling than all the others put together. Read about the new field of NECROBOTICS, reanimating dead spiders for use as robotic grippers… and the field is just getting started. Sleep well!
It started simply enough. There was a story about robotics manufacturers signing an open letter pledging not to “weaponize their advanced mobility general purpose robots or the software that makes them function” and asked their customers to do the same. Since these little mechanical horrors can be weaponized with a shotgun and duct tape, the manufacturers’ arguably good intentions did nothing to reassure us. But you know how confirmation bias works… since we were worried about robots, every story we saw seemed to be about robots, and every story seemed to be scarier than the last. They roll, run, fly, dance, creep, blink, talk, and more, and no matter what you think the state-of-the-art is in robotics, you’ll find you’re wrong. We thought we’d give you something to be truly scared of this Halloween, so enjoy(?) this look at our future robotic overlords in print and video…
Before we get started, here’s the organization you’ll want to contact when you’re done reading…
STOP KILLER ROBOTS.ORG
Now without further ado,
Some leading robot makers are pledging not to weaponize them, Joe Hernandez on NPR, Oct 2022
Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs, Jim Hightower on the Hightower Lowdown, Mar 2022
Corporate America’s robot economy, Jim Hightower on the Hightower Lowdown, Oct 2017
AI That Will Bite Us In The Butt, Jim Hightower in OtherWords.org, Nov 2021
Honolulu Police Used a Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment, Todd Feathers on Vice, June 2021
‘Killer Robots’ Are Already Here. They Just Don’t Look Like You Think, Toby Walsh on Science Alert, Oct 2022
10 most advanced robot dogs in the world (video)
Boston Dynamics robot dances to “Do You Love Me?” (video)
This is NOT REAL, but it’s still a glimpse of our robot overlords to come (video)
Robotic 100-meter robotic sprint record. Oregon story! (video)
Tesla Optimus Robot: First look at Elon’s $20K humanoid (video)
Top 5 female humanoid robots that will shock you (video)
Japan Releases Fully Performing Female Robots (video)
Robot dogs at Chinese future expo (video)
Next Level Robotic dogs you should check out (video)
Here comes the Army’s Robo-dog with sniper rifle (video)
Robot dogs are cute-ish… until they form armies (video)
US Air Force to start patrols with robot dogs (video)
Why does Boston Dynamics build robot dogs? (video)
British Army Tests Dog-like Quadruped robots (video)
Machine gun mounted on robot dog despite pleas not to (video)
Robot dog meets real dog (video)
10 Amazing robots that really exist (video)
10 Tiny Micro Robots and nano drones (video)
