Portension has found a new secretary: A Robotic Squirrel Answers Your Call [via MobileBurn]
The Squirrel itself is a Bluetooth device that uses a remote PC for its computing power, though future models would be autonomous. When a call comes in, the animatronic squirrel will "wake up" as might a character from a Disney movie. It will then start engaging the remote caller in a conversation in an effort …
I often post about robots, since the future is going to be full of them. Today, I’ll do another round-up of recent links from my robots file, but first let me explain why, in the wake of what’s just happened in London, I’ve decided to do this.
I’ve been watching the action in London up-close, much the way I would have been able to watch it if I were there. No, I’m …
In a case of art imitating life [via Boing Boing] one of my favourite SF authors gets a fitting tribute:
David Pescovitz: An android embodiment of surrealist SF author Philip K. Dick will be demonstrated at Wired’s NextFest this weekend in Chicago. The Dick bot is a collaboration between Hanson Robotics Inc, the FedEx Institute of Technology’s Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at …
I keep coming across this guy, Ian Pearson, the head of British Telecoms futurology department. I so want a job working for a big corporate “futurology unit”. What a sham! These guys seem to sit around all day working hard to predict a future that has been written about in SF magazines and novels for decades. The latest from Pearson: Death could be averted by ‘downloaded brains’, British futurologist says.
[Just like the "Bitchun ...
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