Archive for the “robots doing good” category
The Napoleon Dynamite problem
by Luke Rodgers on February 18, 2009
This is an old (If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That, Nov ‘08) but good article from the New York Times that I read parts of online, but just read in its entirety in the NYT print version. (…)
Bot-mediated reality
by Luke Rodgers on October 20, 2008
Having just spent upwards of 25 hours in a car driving between Peterborough, Toronto, and Pukaskwa National Park, one of the ways we passed the time was listening to a variety of podcasts, including Philosophy Bites, CBC Ideas, and the (…)
Creepy female robot
by Luke Rodgers on July 31, 2008
I had to put this one in “robots doing good” and “robots doing evil” because she’s helping sell sunscreen, which is good, but she’s really disturbing, which is bad.
Self-re-assembling robots – cue the Terminator references
by Luke Rodgers on May 1, 2008
Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart
Nerdy and awesome
