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- Is Zeno the future of home entertainment?
- Zeno, a humanoid robot with a $300 price tag, is set to be released in 2009. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a look at a prototype and asks why this one may be different than others that have come before it.
- Tags: News.com, Home Entertainment, Robots, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, zeno, robot, humanoid, david hanson, hanson robotics, robotics, massive, effects, michael kanellos, robodevelopment, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-10-29
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- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...
- Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case
- Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming caseWhat happened?What happenned to the FCC being the evil minions of the Bush administration?Clearly a mistake...after, corporations have more rights than people as was intended by our Founding Humans and Humanoid Types. None of this consumer rights...
- Tags: Federal government, Sprint Communications, FCC, little guy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Commercial brain computer systems are coming
- All over the world, systems that directly connect silicon circuits to brains are under development, and some are nearly ready for commercial applications, according to a new report from the World Technology Evaluation Center and announced by a news release of the University of Southern California USC. Some of the...
- Tags: University Of Southern California, Panel, Report, Computer, BCI, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Singularity Summit 2007: Memories
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Memory, Humanity, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: On the machinations of the beautiful mind
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Machine, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Unreal II: The Awakening (XBOX): Prima Official eGuide (exe)
- Complete walkthrough of all missions, including maps and all objectives. Strategies to defeat each enemyalien and humanoid. Tips for handling each weapon, including the flamethrower, the sniper rifle, and the rocket and multi-mode grenade launcher. Covers basic combat and evasive strategies. Includes tips on using XMP.
- Tags: Microsoft Xbox, Strategy, Game Players, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-08-06
- Unreal II: The Awakening: Prima Official eGuide (exe)
- Complete walkthrough of all 14 missions, including maps and all objectives. All Cheat codes revealed. Strategies to defeat each enemy--alien and humanoid. Tips for handling all 15 weapons, including the flamethrower, the sniper rifle, and the rocket and multi-mode grenade launchers. Covers basic combat and movement strategies.
- Tags: Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2007-08-06
- Poll: iPhone offers on eBay up to $1,400: how much would you pay?
- Poll: iPhone offers on eBay up to $1,400: how much would you pay?iPhone just another Mac-like divice?I am wondering if iPhone will be remembered as just another Mac-like divice. Sure, it does more stuff than a regular phone. And it's cool as all get-out, for the PSP generation. But I...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, eBay Inc., Palm Treo, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- Photos: Kawada's robot as handyman
- The humanoid HRP-3 Promet Mk-II makes its debut in a Japanese lab facility, with power tool at its side.
- Tags: Robots, robot, photograph, tool
- Image galleries 2007-06-22
- Photos: Kawada's robot as handyman
- The humanoid HRP-3 Promet Mk-II makes its debut in a Japanese lab facility, with power tool at its side.
- Tags: Robots, robot, photograph, tool
- Image galleries 2007-06-22
- Space Fighters 3D (exe)
- For a long time now, conflict has been brewing between the humanoid Gollians and the insectoid Szaarth Collective over the overlapping boundaries of their star systems. That's why the area between the blistering Gal'tur Nebula and the Myzon Abyss is considered a hot zone and is avoided by civilian space...
- Tags: 3D, Enemy
- Software downloads 2007-05-28
- News to know: Ubuntu Server; WinHEC; Windows Home Server; Linus Torvalds
- Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: LAMP On Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Server Edition. Gallery right. Will Dell stuff Ubuntu PCs full of craplets?Mary Jo Foley: At WinHEC the future is off limits for Microsoft. Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally.Ed Bott: On the road with Vista.InformationWeek: Linus Torvalds Responds...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Photos: Humanoid robots come to life at MIT
- When it comes to robots, MIT's CSAIL is one of the places in the world where the magic happens.
- Tags: Robots, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, robot, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-15
- Anybots' humanoid robot trains to do the dirty work
- Start-up thinks robots may be used to take on tough tasksIn a March 21 interview, CNET News.com's Zamir Haider spoke with Trevor Blackwell, founder of Mountain View, Calif.-based Anybots, and saw humanoid robots that may one day be used to perform dangerous tasks. He got close to walking robot Dexter...
- Tags: Robots, robot, Anybots
- Videos 2007-04-10
- Photos: Meet Dexter and Monty, the Anybots
- Anybots, a start-up in Mountain View, Calif., shows off two humanoid robots, Dexter and Monty.
- Tags: Robots, photograph, Anybots, Dexter, Monty, Mountain View, robot, California
- Image galleries 2007-04-10
- Photos: Tea time with robots
- Humanoid machines team up to pour and serve tea--not terribly fast, but you don't have to leave a tip.
- Tags: Robots, robot, photograph, team
- Image galleries 2007-03-02
- (Images: New radiation warning--run for your life)
- (Images: New radiation warning--run for your life)Re: Run for your lifeSeveral years ago they tackled a similar signage problem for nuclear waste dumps. The signs would have to survive tens of thousands of years and be understandable to some future human or humanoid.I wonder how they did.:)I have...
- Tags: radiation, radiation symbol
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- Photos: Tomy's tiny two-legged robot
- The Japanese toymaker unveils a 6-inch biped named i.Sobot--the world's smallest humanoid robot, it says.
- Tags: robot
- Image galleries 2007-01-23
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