By now the furore over this video has probably reached those who are interested in these topics, but just in case you’ve missed it, check out this amazing video of a swarm of nano quadrotors, flying in a controlled and agile way as a formation:
The degree of control each quadrotor has over it’s position and [...]
I know we already had a post this week, and a rather substantial one at that, but this is just cool. And it has robots! So forgive me for over indulging in my link sharing, but here is an article with an excellent video on reptilian-like tailed robots (video at the end of the post).
It is [...]
Today we’re coming back to the topic of ethics and morality.
It is not a commonly accepted fact that there is a real need for serious thought and debate over the subject of “synthetic” moral agents. Many people and institutions still regard this issue as something of an esoteric topic that the techies have dreamed up in [...]
Oh look, they’re not even officially self-aware yet and already they’re breaking out the cans and spray-painting the walls like it’s nobody’s business!
Check the video on the ieee spectrum blog post. (If you’re impatient, the hard core graffiti actions starts at around the 50s mark.)
For shame!
Generalizing, learning by itself, learning to learn. These (together will self-awareness, possibly) are the most basic capabilities needed for an AI that can lead us into the singularity. And yet, the current state of the art is frankly quite incipient.
Now don’t get me wrong, I know we’re more advanced now than we’ve ever been before [...]
In this video, we can see a demo of a swarm of robots with different capabilities working towards a common goal. It is still clearly very incipient technology, but the concept is a very important one. Also this is the first demonstration I am aware of that combines multiple different elements in such a way.
Back in January a significant percentage of IEET‘s readers said they’d never give robots human rights, because “robots aren’t human”. Which is a fair point, I suppose, if you take the phrasing literally, but I do think that “human rights” was meant as a proxy term for whatever passes for “human” in the future, when robots and [...]
