DailyDirt: I Believe That Robots Are The Future. Teach Them Well, And Let Them Lead The Way...

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Fri, Apr 15th 2011 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Robots are incredibly useful machines that are becoming more and more important for everyone. Kids are building them. Robots are building more robots. Pretty soon, we'll be surrounded by robots... oh sorry Roomba, we already are. Here are some cool videos and some examples of robots that are helping us out (and not trying to enslave us).

Watch a solid block of aluminum get carved into a racing helmet by a fancy robotic drill. Injection molding is so 20th century. [url]
Protei is an autonomous sailing robot that will try to remove surface oil pollution from the ocean -- aiming to help out cleaning up the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This Kickstarter project has been funded with over $30,000 to build a full scale prototype. [url]
The Landroids is a team of kids who like to build Lego robots -- and offer encouragement to other kids who might enter the Google Science Fair. And they put in 20-30 hours per week on their robot-building projects! [url]
The next robot to go to Mars is called Curiosity, and it's pretty big -- about twice as long as the previous Mars rovers. Hopefully, Curiosity won't kill ~~cats~~ aliens on Mars... [url]
To discover more interesting AI-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

Filed Under: autonomous sailing, curiosity, mars, protei, robots
Companies: bp, deepwater horizon, google, kickstarter, lego

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Pixelation, 15 Apr 2011 @ 6:14pm

Obviously Skynet is preparing before we discover it's sentience.
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Spaceman Spiff (profile), 16 Apr 2011 @ 3:39pm

Re. Racing helmet
Neat video, and I do love to watch CNC machines make stuff out of dross; however, it would have been neat to see someone doff the resulting helmet, if only to see if the visor really would drop down over the face! Otherwise, its a nice sculpture, but not a functional helmet... :-)
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tech84 (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 2:00am

Robots in arms
Just don't make robots that carry guns autonomous and we'll all be fine until someone gets a hold of the controller.
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