Posts Tagged ‘robots’

Hanging with the BIG DOGS- Meet Petman

Hanging with the BIG DOGS- Meet Petman
Does anyone remember Big Dog? Well meet his new master, Petman… Its developers,  Boston Dynamics, without doubt the coolest company in the world, say: “PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had...
December 11th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

The Singularity is Near

The Singularity is Near
Gary Wolf‘s article (below) originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of  Wired Magazine. Ray Kurzweil is a fervent believer in the Singularity,  and a proponent of  various outlandish predictions, based on his own Law of Accelerating Returns, which states that the development of technology...
December 1st, 2009 | Big Ideas | Read More