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There is a legal vacuum when it comes to robot interaction with humans so ethicist and scientists weigh in as robotics technology speeds up.

European scientists have successfully connected a touch-sensitive prosthetic hand to an amputee which he is able to control using thought.

Stanford scholars are considering the legal implications of using robots – with issues extending beyond personal injury and property damage to criminal and civil rights.

How much real science is there in James Cameron’s science fiction movie “Avatar”? Quite a bit, says MSNBC’s Charles Choi.

A specially designed shrinking space suit could soon help astronauts get suited and booted in record time.

In a Hollywood that became increasingly politicized (some moviegoers would say “boring”) over the past five years, James Cameron is generally considered a-political. Among the all-time box office kings, the […]

The super rich could evolve into a different species from the poor, according to American futurologist Paul Saffo.

Scientists have developed the first artificial hand with feeling.

I can’t blog forthrightly about the remote-control assassinations detailed this week in The New Yorker without first alerting readers to my bias — a bias that’s more about pragmatism and […]

First off, yes, it’s entirely possible that we’ve watched too many science-fiction movies, like I, Robot and the Matrix. But a variety of new scientific innovations, particularly in the world […]

So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. To which Ernest Hemingway replied, “yes. They have more money.” Could they one day end up having more fingers? Toes? Brains? The economist Robert Frank […]

I’ve been thinking of different ways scientists and engineers could have prepared the world population for the extreme weather problems. By not financing weaponry but instead innovative solutions to natural disasters we could have been way ahead of the game by now.

It wasn’t  greeted with the kind of fanfare it may have deserved, but five years ago when the $10-million Ansari X PRIZE was awarded, it helped usher in a new […]

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Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics is going to have some profound consequences for business and society. It will simplify product development, revolutionise distribution, reduce costs so much it can transform our lives. It can also help us reduce our ecological footprint dramatically.

The Golden Years are really the Platinum Years for millions of senior citizens because of the marvels of modern technology.

Peter W. Singer explains how the robotics revolution will allow generals the ability to micromanage even low-level operations.

The New York Times reports that many graduates of the nation’s top law schools are having a tough time finding jobs. The chickens are coming home to roost. Law, like the automobile and other businesses, need to change its ways to adjust to the 21st century.

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses how robotic red blood cells will aid in ending disease as we know it.

One outstanding task on the global conversation to-do list is how to communicate across languages on all our various new media. Now, a linguistic brain trust at MIT has stepped […]

Daniel Dennett Discusses the Problem of Robotic Warfare.

Daniel Dennett with the argument against humanoid robots.

If you look inside each neuron in the human brain, you will find motor proteins that are a bit of mindless nano-engineering.

Robots already play a major role in modern warfare in the form of airborne drones, but as artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, will we have to worry about our own […]

A new perspective to these times, their challenges and opportunities. ByAndy (Andres Agostini) – Ich Bin Singularitarian! High-Tech Visionary and Method Developer/Proprietor of: “Transformative And Integrative Risk Management” www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com-Arlington, Virginia, USA

As I reach the halfway point of the “threescore years and ten” years that the Book of Psalms promise to let us live, it occurs to me I have spent […]

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