Robot Invasion 2011 - Will these machines steal your job? - Slate Magazine -

Robot Invasion 2011 - Will these machines steal your job? - Slate Magazine -
Dog Robot: Which Is the Better Soldier? : Discovery News
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In a development that smacks of Terminators and SKYNET, startup Narrative Science has created a program that can turn data into a news stories -- stories that include, most humanely, inferences and an angle.
At the Creative Machines Lab we are interested in robots that create and are creative. We explore novel autonomous systems that can design and make other machines – automatically. Our work is inspired from biology, as we seek new biological concepts for engineering and new engineering insights into biology
“I believe candidly we can accelerate the evolution of autonomous technology if people would just acknowledge that it’s important.” [..] “They provide situational awareness, unmanned lethal and nonlethal fires, unattended precision target attack and acquisition, maximum standoff from threats, … and perform unmanned logistics support and services,” he said. Defense.gov News Article: Robots Could Save Soldiers’ Lives, Army General Says.
In addition, the robot is compact and intended to fit into spaces ergonomically designed for human workers. This allows the robot to be easily interchanged with a human coworker when the production order is changed or a new layout is required. FRIDA concept robot.