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Robot Round-Up

How can I like that a million times?
 
Strewth!

A sex robot needs a little downtime after receiving a bit too much attention from randy “barbarians” at an Austrian electronics fair.

The ersatz lover — an interactive silicone doll named Samantha — was the star attraction at the Ars Electronica Festival in the city of Linz, where sex-crazed men mounted her and groped her bulbous breasts.

“She was heavily soiled,” Samantha’s developer Sergi Santos told the Daily Star.

“People can be bad. Because they did not understand the technology and did not have to pay for it, they treated the doll like barbarians,” said Santos, who runs Synthea Amatus, a company based in Barcelona.

Samantha has been sent back to Spain for repairs – and plenty of sanitizing.

Even though the robot’s body parts were badly damaged, the software still worked.

“Hi, I’m fine,” she told Santos after he asked her how she was doing after her ordeal. ...

http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/sex-robot-heavily-soiled-by-barbarians-at-tech-fair/
 
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Swifty said:
Saudi Arabia has just granted a robot, Sophia, citizenship .. it's also given her a synthetic 'attitude' .. I'm not convinced, when she can create her own dick and fart jokes, when she can cry and care about humans with passion? .. then I'll be impressed .. she's the best yet though .. not better than a bucket of water thrown over her ..

http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/27/robot-becomes-first-in-the-world-to-be-given-citizenship-7031214/
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Wow, that robot has more rights than the actual women...
 
I'm also not convinced that the Saudis, even if they have got bottomless resources, have managed to create an AI bot that can quickly pick up on sarcasm Blade Runner references .. and also smile at the appropriate put down moment .. that thing's being remotely controlled on some level ..
 
Robot animals - some interesting beasties but in their right mind wants a robotic tarantula - especially a room full of the buggers!
 
Slaughterbots .. a science fiction film ..

People are saying these are almost ready. Shit. (the web address for the company is at the end of this vid) ..

 
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Slaughterbots .. a science fiction film ..

People are saying these are almost ready. Shit. (the web address for the company is at the end of this vid) ..

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The grim reality is that all of what is depicted in that video is technologically possible.
All of it.
 
Mythopoeika said:
The grim reality is that all of what is depicted in that video is technologically possible.
All of it.
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Yep .... I say take the little bastards down with flamethrowers, fire extinguishers or something similar ... hackers would also find away to electronically jam them I expect.
 
That looks pretty slick.
 
Boston Dynamics showing off what Atlas can now do ..

 
Definite signs of improvement.
 
An interesting article assuming it's real: LINK
But about two months ago, while this particular Alantim was traveling around the city to research driverless car technology, an aggressor bashed its head with a baseball bat, as captured at the end of this video:


The sad news is that this Alantim could not be revived after the attack. But the silver lining is that its death inspired Olga Budnik, a spokesperson for the Muscovite tech hub Phystechpark, to create the world's first dedicated robot cemetery.

"Alantim was a really good robot," Budnik told me in an email. "It was supportive, always polite, always happy to see you. You know, like a pet. And [the cemetery] was an idea to bury it like a pet. Not disassemble or carry it to the trash. To say good-bye."

On October 31, Alantim's Earthly remains were placed at the Phystechpark cemetery site next to a box for collecting other dead robots. He was eulogized by another Alantim, who honored his dearly departed "brother" for being "very useful to your people and Russian science," according to a Russian-to-English translation of the ceremony as seen (HERE):
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Dystopian indeed. They think animals are more important than people.

Anti-Homeless Robot Deployed in San Francisco
December 14, 2017 at 11:44 am Written by Jake Anderson

ANTIMEDIA) — As the homeless problem continues to surge in San Francisco, an animal advocacy and pet adoption clinic has taken the novel, if dystopian, approach of hiring an autonomous security robot unit to clear out vagrants. The SPCA (the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) deployed a K5 robot manufactured by Knightscope, a Silicon Valley-based robotics company, to help discourage homeless people from erecting tents on the sidewalks and streets near the clinic. Though it has reduced the number of encampments, the robot has drawn overwhelmingly negative reactions from city residents.

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Resembling a Whovian Dalek, the K5 security robot moves at around three miles per hour and is equipped with four cameras and an array of lasers, thermal sensors, and GPS. It can be rented for $6 an hour as opposed to the $16/hr a security guard costs.

http://theantimedia.org/robot-scare-homeless-people/
 
A weird development in robot/human relations?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/security-robots-being-used-ward-195814833.html
Is it worse if a robot instead of a human is used to deter the homeless from setting up camp outside places of business?

One such bot cop recently took over the outside of the San Francisco SPCA, an animal advocacy and pet adoption clinic in the city's Mission district, to deter homeless people from hanging out there -- causing some people to get very upset.
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