Robotics
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Into the Uncanny Valley
August 24, 2010
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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Works in Progress
December 03, 2009
Whether it is climate change or life on Mars, revealing the hairy—and human—underbelly of how science is done means controversy for the public at large.
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Our Adapting Future
November 19, 2009
Current developments in autonomous, biological, and evolutionary robotics will have a profound impact on the future of interactive and dynamic architectural space.
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Perfect Strangers
November 16, 2009
The eerie emotional response brought on by near-duplicates of our selves raises interesting questions about perception and expectations.
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Into the Uncanny Valley
November 16, 2009
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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Roboethics Redux
July 31, 2009
After Fox News misrepresents a military robot’s dietary habits, the world muses over what ethical behavior means for intelligent programs and machines.
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Automatic for the People
April 02, 2009
A team of British researchers take a robotic approach in rethinking the hypothetico-deductive method.
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The Living Robot
March 26, 2009
Researchers have developed a robot capable of learning and interacting with the world using a biological brain.
complexity, engineering, networks, neuroscience, robotics, technology
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Mechanical Generation
September 23, 2008
The unveiling of a 3-D printer that was built to build itself is hailed as a step toward "Darwinian Marxism."
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Rise of Roboethics
July 16, 2007
Grappling with the implications of an artificially intelligent culture.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
