Robot Reports from the BBC
Some new video reports from BBC science, the first is an impressive jumping robot from Boston Dynamics and the second video is a round up of the latest developments in medical robots.
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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