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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... [07 Aug 2007]
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... [13 Sep 2007]
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... [29 May 2001]
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... [09 Feb 2006]
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... [16 Jan 2000]
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... [21 Sep 2001]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.08
Round-Up Sharkey said he expects the streets to be patrolled by robots with "human-like features and expressions", which would certainly represent a marked improvement on the incumbents. Sharkey warned us that we can't "put the... [15 Aug 2008]
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... [07 Jan 2002]
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... [16 Nov 2005]
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... [05 Dec 2003]
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... [23 Jun 2006]
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... [18 Sep 2001]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up Along with BacoFoil suits and 50-tonne robots giving foot massages, the jet pack has been on the horizon since the Round-Up was tiny. The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. At least, not since that incident with... [08 Aug 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Security, e-procurement and convergence
Comment There is no talk of using auctions or aggregation engines or price robots. Security news was the big concern among our clients last week. This followed the hardware announcements from IBM offering PCs with built in... [04 Oct 1999]
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... [13 Aug 2004]
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