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The "Terminator" movies uncover fears about uncannily human robots.
This 40ft tall, 58,000lb robo-cop crushed and scorched poor hapless automobiles at car shows and air shows for 10 years. Inventor Doug Malewicki piloted it from inside beast's head; a true mega-mecha dispensing pure, mindless, energy-wasting fun!
Robots can do amazing things, as this list shows.
Robotically Human: It's Us, Only Better...
CB2 was designed to mimic a child of age 1 or 2. And it is creepy looking.
Today's kids might not recognize their robot grandchildren as fully human.
Who are your children's children? Individuals? Or cells of the super-organism? Or might they be both...?
Humans have gone to the moon, but robots have gone just about everywhere else in space.
Our robotic offspring will carry us to the stars. But who, actually, will "we" then be?
Up 'til now, robots have only been good at generating data for humans to interpret. Aberystwyth University's new Biology Robot Scientist can do both, saving researchers a lot of time and headaches.
Too much of life is based on electronic representations of reality.
Students design, build and race to complete science tasks using Lego robots during the annual FIRST robotics regional competition at JPL.
Science fiction reflects hopes and fears for robots.
"Robot" means "forced labor" or "serf," as conceived in 1921 by Czech writers Karl and Josef Capek. But will these servants soon become the masters?
A special helmet reads brain activity, and then the arms and legs of Asimo move.
You are fast becoming a communicative cog in a vast super-organism. Can you maintain your individuality? Your privacy? Your sanity? [Story]
The human-robot convergence draws near.
Specially-equipped Roomba robot vacuum cleaner can now sense human emotional states.
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