Robots

I agree with bngenoh about how sentience might be the thing to be looking for in these reports and videos.

Personally, I wouldn't start worrying until we start hearing phrases that mean natural systems development, organic neural nets, etc. The reason is pretty simple. Anyone who is familiar with the development history of Artificial Intelligence or certain other technologies knows about formal systems flaws.

Basically, using software for example, current programming creates closed, formal systems. Envisioning and modelling these 'objects' in their real environment, results in an unlimited fractal recursion of formal possibilities. Meaning in order to stop robot from thinking--to get him to choose--and get him moving, limitations have to be coded in. Sometimes extreme limitations have to be placed on requirements and features before even beginning a project. For this reason, currently all unconstrained formal systems will always have unlimited covert channels and failure modes, constrained formal systems simply won't develop past their built-in limitations and this will always limit performance, no matter what the hype says.

When we start hearing about 'natural systems', then we would look for evidence of 'parts' capable of adaptations to their environments via a sentient mode and a mechanical, object mode. Sentient mode is a main concern because even nature's organic, adaptive capability seems limited, or at least slower than is desired.

Just my thoughts. One could read Satinover's The Quantum Brain for more on this subject.
 
Human looking robot catching and throwing back balls: http://youtu.be/83eGcht7IiI
Designed by Disney.
 
T8 the Bio Inspired 3D Printed Spider Octopod Robot : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfiHOpv6HtI

Can be pre-ordered here for $1350 _https://www.robugtix.com/t8/
 
Review of Spider Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vVblGlIMgw
It can run for 20 minutes with included NiMH battery pack.

Now they sell injection molded version which is much cheaper. After the promotional discount period it will cost $750 + $50 for shipping cost.
In the future they will add camera.
 
Persej said:
Review of Spider Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vVblGlIMgw
It can run for 20 minutes with included NiMH battery pack.

Now they sell injection molded version which is much cheaper. After the promotional discount period it will cost $750 + $50 for shipping cost.
In the future they will add camera.
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This is the T8X model. Exactly $599 actually on their site with a delivery on August 2014.

Movements are very realistic. If you put an head with eyes on it, it will be completely frightening :/ . I guess some team is already working on how to generate the thread.
 
Ultra-fast, robotic arm enable to catch objects on the fly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M413lLWvrbI
 
If you analyse the Google's takeovers in the last several years you will get the idea in which direction it all goes: drones, robots, machines. As C's once remarked "the computers will overpower you"
 
Very eery - new talking heads - discussing earthquakes Richter scale event near Hawaii.

"Japan unveils 'world's first' android newscaster"

AFP news agency


_https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=45PgwV6dlLs
 
Altair said:
If you analyse the Google's takeovers in the last several years you will get the idea in which direction it all goes: drones, robots, machines.
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It seems they haven't named their OS "Android" by chance. ;)

Very eery - new talking heads - discussing earthquakes Richter scale event near Hawaii.
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We can use them for SOTT reports! :lol:
 
Google's new Skynet satellites

The reach of Google's online empire is hard to overstate. In a sense, the Google search engine is the loom through which the entirety of the public internet is woven. With tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs, the company also handles many of our private online tasks. Using the data generated by these services to target online ads, Google has built a business that generates tens of billions of dollars a year.

Now, with the $500 million purchase of Skybox, a startup that shoots high-res photos and video with low-cost satellites, Google can extend its reach far across the offline world. Thanks to its knack for transforming mass quantities of unstructured data into revenue-generating insights, the unprecedented stream of aerial imagery to which the company is gaining access could spark a whole new category of high-altitude insights into the workings of economies, nations, and nature itself.

But this acquisition will also demand assurances from Google that it will incorporate privacy safeguards into its vast new view of the world. Already Google gets a lot of flack for tracking user behavior online. With Skybox's satellites, Google may gain a window into your everyday life even if you don't use Google at all.

Really Big Data

In his WIRED feature story on Skybox, David Samuels describes some of the stunning ways high-resolution images shot from space are being used to unlock secrets about life on the ground. One company is tracking cars in parking lots to create retail forecasts. Images of pits and slag heaps reveal the productivity of mines. Pictures of property damage from above can tell insurance companies whether a claim is valid.

"Many of the most economically and environmentally significant actions that individuals and businesses carry out every day, from shipping goods to shopping at big-box retail outlets to cutting down trees to turning out our lights at night, register in one way or another on images taken from space," Samuels writes. "So, while Big Data companies scour the Internet and transaction records and other online sources to glean insight into consumer behavior and economic production around the world, an almost entirely untapped source of data - information that companies and governments sometimes try to keep secret - is hanging in the air right above us."

In a statement, Google has said that, in the short term, it plans to use Skybox's satellites to keep Google Maps up to date. And, in the future, the company says, it could use them to help spread internet access to remote areas, something that will help improve the reach of its existing services. But imagine all the other things Google could do if it turns its artificial intelligence expertise onto a constant stream of images beamed down from above.

One Skybox insider told Samuels that satellite images alone could be used to estimate any country's major economic indicators. Take, for example, this Skybox case study of Saudi oil reserves measured from space. Now consider the insights that could come from marrying that visual data with Google's Knowledge Graph, leveraging all the company's algorithmic might. Google could learn all kinds of new things about the world.

Military-Industrial Ties

But it could also learn all kinds of new things about you. Skybox can take photos from 500 miles up with a sub-one-meter resolution of the ground below. That isn't likely to sit well with privacy activists who already don't trust Google. What does the right to be forgotten mean when Google can always see you anyway?

Skybox's pedigree likely won't help assuage anyone who likes a good conspiracy theory. According to Samuels, one of the company's co-founders, John Fenwick, had previously worked as as a liaison in Congress for the National Reconnaissance Office, "the ultrasecret spy agency that manages much of America's most exotic space toys." A major investor had worked as an intelligence officer in the French army, while its CEO held previous jobs that brought him into close contact with the Department of Defense.

That's not to suggest there's anything nefarious about Skybox or its intentions. It's hard to get anything into space without entreé into government and military circles. But Skybox CEO Tom Ingersoll told Samuels that the government is interested in his company's imagery. "In the end," Samuels writes, "the government will likely commandeer some of Skybox's imaging capabilities under terms similar to those imposed on other vendors." With Google now involved, that begins to sound a lot like the NSA commandeering the internet servers to spy on U.S. citizens.

Skybox or Skynet?

Even if a network of high-powered imaging satellites could give Google the power to track an individual from space, it probably wouldn't. Setting aside any legal or moral constraints, there's just no percentage in it. Monetizable insights of the kind that would interest Google or companies willing to pay Google for access to that data are derived from observing patterns and populations, not individuals. As geeks of all varieties are fond of pointing out, n=1 is a terrible sample size.

If Google finds ways of using these satellites that ends up making users' lives more interesting and convenient, most people are unlikely to object, just like revelations of NSA surveillance haven't exactly dented Gmail's market share. But people may find the idea of Google looking down from the heavens on their physical selves more discomfiting than peering through their browsers at their virtual personas. After all, putting an all-seeing Google eye in space gives a whole new meaning to "do not track."
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Source: http://www.sott.net/article/280390-Googles-new-Skynet-satellites
 
Ellipse said:
2015 update from Boston Dynamics (Google company since 2013). Now the dog have an head with a jaw and the humanoid robot can walk on difficult grounds. :/
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Those things are extremely creepy! :/

On the other hand, I do like BB-8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_K10fX9DSY

You can buy the mini version for $150.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBavZEKz8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v35PHc6A8kU
 
So, it seems that robots now are becoming "self-aware", if this article is to be believed.

http://www.sciencealert.com/a-robot-has-just-passed-a-classic-self-awareness-test-for-the-first-time
 
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