Elektro (Robot History)
Elektro, from the New York World’s Fair in 1939, it was built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It could be said that we haven’t come as far as we think regarding Humanoid Robots, Elektro is 60 years old?
Dean Meadows
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Wittgenstein
BBC SCIENCE
- Voice recognition on Google phone January 6, 2010Google has revealed its own brand mobile phone that runs the Android operating system.
- Google unveils Nexus One handset January 5, 2010Search giant Google reveals details of its own-brand of smartphone, called the Nexus One.
- Google mobile phone expected January 5, 2010Internet giant Google is expected to announce the launch of the Nexus One, its first mobile phone, on Tuesday.
- Moscow's body scanners in action December 31, 2009The attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit over Christmas has had a major repercussion for some travellers.
- 'Artificial intelligence' game December 26, 2009Game developer Rollo Carpenter on the AI interrogation techniques written into the free online game.
Blogroll
Books
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip. K. Dick
- Introducing Human Geographies – Professor Paul Cloke et al
- Love and Sex with Robots by David Levy
- The Buddha in the Robot by Masahiro Mori
- The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies by Mark Paterson
- The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking
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