If robots are indeed the future then Google is getting a big head start on the competition. Technology Review notes that robots created by Google-owned companies absolutely dominated rivals in a recent competition hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Miami. The point of the competition was to have different robots perform a series […]
So forget the constant chatter about robots taking our jobs and robots gaining sentience and passing Turing tests and then passing us — taking over, in essence. These fears are misplaced. Robots are not going to take over; we will just become them.
The stars of Sonys The Playroom are meant to be its robots. The Playroom — an alternate reality game that comes pre-loaded on PlayStation 4 — projects the miniature machines into players living rooms. Using the PlayStation Camera, players can interact with them, kicking, flicking, and cradling them as they frolic and cower. But on […]
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