- Jumblie is yet another fun little word game you can add to your morning routine of Wordle, Connections, &c.
- The appeal to nature fallacy is not a viable healthcare strategy. Sometimes “all natural” is far better, but other times nature tries to kill us. – via @kmpanthagani.bsky.social
- Matthew Green wrote a post about how AI will interface with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR: Maybe not so well! – via @matthewdgreen.bsky.social
- Related: Another day, another horrific and troubling example of AI going wrong – via @emily.space
- Related: Scientists covered a robot finger in living human skin.
- Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately those who do study history are also involuntarily dragged along for the ride.
- In college a friend suggested I read The Myth Adventure series by Robert Asprin. At the time it had been almost a decade since I’d read The Hobbit and the rest of Tolkien, and I thoroughly enjoyed returning to stories of dragons and wizards and swords. It looks like they’re no longer being published, but if you’re into that sort of tale, I’m sure you can find them used somewhere.
Posts tagged “robots”
Build Your Own R2-D2
Everyone should have an astromech droid.
Why would someone dream of creating a life-sized mechanical duck that eats, digests, and excretes grain just like a real bird?
- Not many things are cooler than Johnny Depp reading a letter from Hunter S. Thompson.
- The Zodiac Killer! Grey goo! There are all sorts of creepy Wikipedia articles.
- The team @Flip has done it again. They are just killing in the video recorder market. Their new product — the Flip SlideHD — is incredible. It shoots 4 hours of HD video and has a touchscreen. (via The Awesomer)
- Phil Mickelson visited Krispy Kreme, wearing his spiffy new green jacket.
- The best Twitter exchange of the year has got to go to Aimee Mann and Ice T.
- I don’t subscribe to Scientific American, but I always grab it in airport bookstores. My favorite recurring feature is the one that details an interesting article from 50, 100, and 150 years ago. So it was with some pleasure that I discovered that the author of one of my favorite blogs, Ironic Sans, has recently started publishing Sunday Magazine. Every Friday he posts the most interesting articles from the New York Times Sunday Magazine from 100 years ago that weekend. Trés cool.
- The towel-folding robot is just more proof that I am going to get to meet C-3PO (or at least R2-D2) in my lifetime.
Beer-Opening Robot
Just when you thought beer-drinking couldn’t get any better, along comes the Autonomous Beer-Opening Robot, or ABOR. It was built by Jean-Phillipe Clerc, a mechanical engineering master’s student at the University of Florida, as part of the school’s Intelligent Machine Design Laboratory class. link via Visual Distortion
A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away …
The 106-bed facility … features robot bears whose sole purpose is to watch over the elderly residents. … The fur-covered robotic assistant, simply known as Teddy, hides a microcomputer and a local network connection. It is the latest in a series of companion robots … Previous efforts included cats and a surprisingly appealing wombat. link
RoboScience
RoboScience has created the RS-01 RoboDog – the world’s most powerful, most advanced and largest commercial legged robot. The RoboDog takes leading-edge technology out of the laboratories of the world’s major organisations and puts it in people’s living rooms.
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In Which I Want to Be a Robot
I will be the first in line to have my brain in a robot body! This article is amazing, and not just because the publication date is June 10, 2000! It’s like living, literally, in the future!