This Blood Parrot fish rolls the contraption around just by swimming around in its bowl. The sensors and the onboard computer detects which direction the fish is swimming in, then directs the wheels accordingly.
If you ask me, this is a dangerous precedence. First we help fish roll around on land, next we're going to teach monkeys how to fly and use firearms. Why don't we just hand over the keys to our civilization already? – Jason Chen
When I interviewed Wired for War author PW Singer last March, he told me that the preconditions for a successful Terminator-type uprising are not in place.
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According to the script, each person's consciousness only takes 300MB. Do you believe it? Does this make you want to watch the series more or less? [io9]
A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge.
The robot's AI made a hypothesis about the genomics of a yeast, planned a test for the hypothesis and carried the test out in its lab.
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