Human Kind and Technology » robots

‘Roll-flying’ robot

ET — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:20:35 +0000

A quadrocopter which also can roll on different undergrounds. So it can be more efficient and robust. But the setup doesn’t allow to roll in x and y easily.

via Forschungs-Blog

Protheses: realistic and better

ET — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:00:02 +0000

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) promotes research efforts to enable protheses near humane or in some way even better. So they try to connect them with human cerebral cortex to deliver information from brain to the protheses and also back again! So people can control protheses only by thoughts and will get sense impressions like the structure of a touched surface. The video (especially the first half) impressions were impressive to me:

Unfortunately there can be negative deployments but let’s think about all the good things which can be done with that technology! A lot of people can live a better life just because they will be able to do normal things.

[exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org: Modular Prosthetic-limb System]

Virtualization of human body (1)

ET — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:00:53 +0000

In the next video a researcher is transferring human head movement data via gyrosensor to a roboter and his video data back to the human.

Is this a another new technology (of virtualization) towards alienation (robots taking over your representation in the world and therefor the public majority) and dissociation (knowing yourself | your body) as one can see in the film “Surrogates”?

Scarying robots

ET — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:33:41 +0000

On the way to “Terminator”!?!

You can find a short german description here: http://www.spiegel.de/…