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Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment Tomorrow's robots - our invisible friends It's true what he's saying, but there's a kind of anti-reference to what he thinks will happen with AI.rather than Terminator-style robots" and then ".and provide opponents in computer games. [13 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment Today the production of just about everything we eat, wear, use and interact with involves robots - a lot of robots! Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN [07 Aug 2007]
Dan's China diary - day 14
Comment There are people dressed as robots to give it a high-tech feel and models handing out drinks. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. [23 Jun 2006]
Leader: Technology with a human face
Leader Tests of remote-controlled robots at a London hospital might be more Star Trek than Quincy. But some of the tests they are putting these robots through will strike a chord with anybody who has tried to make an IT project work. [09 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hardware hackers are back
Comment In a most cases people no longer have the visual acuity and manual dexterity of our production robots to be able to build anything significant. Written while flying from Heathrow to Aberdeen and dispatched from Inverness via a free hotel LAN [16 Nov 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.08.04
Round-Up The premise is that some clever boffins create hordes of intelligent, lovable, huggable robots that inevitably go mental and start killing people with gay abandon despite earlier assurances that this was exactly the sort of thing they wouldn't do. [13 Aug 2004]
Devil's Advocate: IT, culture and change
Comment Robots now steadily reduce the number of people needed to build cars. And that can make us uncomfortable, says Martin Brampton. It was C P Snow who coined the phrase 'Two Cultures' in relation to science and the arts. [13 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.03.04
Round-Up This week, the Round-Up has been in gadget heaven with a brand, spanking new iPod Mini to play with (courtesy of hard-earned cash before you shout freebie). Currently unavailable in the UK the Round-Up's iPod came all the way from Noo Yoik... [05 Mar 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.12.03
Round-Up Meanwhile, at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University the devices are being used by researchers to develop robots that can play football with human beings. After learning his research paved the way for the creation of the atomic bomb, iconic astro... [05 Dec 2003]
The Ovum View: Speech - IT meets telephony?
Comment A debt collection service has found that robots are now achieving higher rates of collection than human-based systems because most debtors are people who are embarrassed by their shortage of cash rather than people who deliberately avoid payment. [07 Jan 2002]
Sci-fi or sci-future? Hollywood technology scrutinised
Comment Ubiquitous and non-invasive brain implants using 'nanobots' (robots the size of blood cells that will travel through the capillaries of our brains and communicate with our biological neurons) will start around 2030, and will be deeply integrated... [18 Oct 2001]
AI - it's been a long, long time coming
Comment By 2030, virtual reality will be created inside our nervous system by nanobots which are blood cell-sized robots, travelling through the capillaries of our brains and communicating wirelessly with each other and with our neurones. [21 Sep 2001]
Sci-fi or sci-future? Hollywood technology scrutinised (part two)
Comment Now we have: Current research at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere to develop software programs and robots that have emotional awareness and can provide appropriate responses to emotional cues e.g.the robot Kismet, developed by... [18 Sep 2001]
Call centre horror: Why robots give lousy customer service...
Comment So the Changing Rooms team have been drafted in to tart up a Grimsby call centre, hanging mirrorball (for Fridays) at the ready. I'm sure the staff are absolutely delighted - only they weren't allowed to tell us, because it was against the rules. [29 May 2001]
BT's top research ideas
Comment The device generates/receives radio signals in a protocol determined by the optic signals) home intranet video jewellery virtual retinal displays in glasses toys with network based intelligence instant electronic diagnosis of illness tactile... [16 Jan 2000]
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