[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

Robots.net reader symphonygirl sent a link
to an interesting NPR
podcast featuring P.W.
Singer, author of the recent book, Wired
for War, on the ethical and legal questions of autonomous robots on
the battlefield. If your local robot group is looking to start a robot
army of its own, you might find a new Instructable
on Open Manufacturing useful. It describes how to set up a large run
of Arduino-based robot kits. The Swirling
Brain unloaded a pile of new
stories on us including new brain research showing that one type of neuron
acts much like RAM in a computer, holding information in memory for
up to a minute. He also noticed a New Scientist article summarizing variants
of the Turing test currently being used in the real world to measure
how fast robots are closing in on human level abilities. Rating 7.5 on
the Turing test of weird robot stories, the BBC reports on the
new Tmsuk T-34 security robot that can be teleoperated from a mobil phone
and commanded to hurl
nets over intruders. After the T-34 nets a bad guy, perhaps he can
hoisted
in the air and hauled off to jail by MIT's new
autonomous robot forklift. Know any other robot news, gossip, or
amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way
please.
   

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