Universal Virtuality: Robotics

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Friday, April 4, 2008

First contact would probably be with robots

A few interesting points sparked by this article - andn it's good to see scientists coming around to my point of view! ;-)

The average alien civilization is probably 50,000 years older than ours
The technological advances that would be possible in 50,000 years of civilization are mind-boggling. The Arthur C. Clark quotation "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" comes to mind.
This nonsense with manned space exploration being the primary mission of NASA has to come to an end. Just as unmanned military aircraft are the future, so are unmanned spacecraft.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/04/858045.aspx

Monday, March 17, 2008

Spooky Doo - the robotic dogs are coming

Filed under "signs of the Apocolypse" - You have to see this to believe it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Microscopic robotic surgeons modeled

Microscopic robots flowing in our bloodstream could carry out future surgeries.

Pisa University Professor Paolo Dario showed off models of microscopic robot surgeons that will zoom through the bloodstream to carry out emergency surgery in places human hands find hard to get at.

He said the Aracne bots, controlled by external joysticks, would be ''like something out of Fantastic Voyage'' - a cult 1960s sci-fi flick starring Raquel Welch.

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-20_120190597.html