SkyNet Update: Synthetic Humans, Now Ultra-Realistic!

Waaay back in 1981 the sci-fi movie Looker introduced us to the idea of digitized images of scanned women animated to make the ‘perfect’ television commercial spokeswomen/models.  Then, in 2004, S1mOne, presented a scenario where a wholly artificial digital actress fooled millions of film fans.  Now, finally, in 2011 a digital human has been created [...]

Sky Net Update: Nano Hummingbird

via Drudge: Robot Hummingbird Passes Flight Test. (click link for full article with video) AeroVironment developed the spybot using parameters and funding ($4M!) provided by DARPA.  Using only two wings, it can take off, fly, hover and land in a fashion simulating the flight of a real hummingbird while a providing real time video feed. [...]

SkyNet Update: Samsung Robosoldier

read about it at the The Firearm Blog: Earlier this year South Korea made news by deploying two experimental sentry robots that were able to shoot at perceived threats without human intervention. A few days ago the UTSPO granted Samsung Techwin, a subsidiary of South Korean giant Samsung, a patent for an “Automatic shooting mechanism [...]

SkyNet Update: Robotic Vampire Bats

OK, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch but after the story on the corpse-dining EATR bot and then reading the two articles below, it just follows reason.  You’ll see what I mean. The Flesh Eating Robotic Clock – uses a conveyor belt of fly paper to catch and ‘eat’ flies to power itself.  Researchers [...]

SkyNet Update: Matrix + Terminator = Robot Feeds on Corpses

No joke. The picture above isn’t quite accurate.  Take a look at this other diagram of the EATR: The feature I’d like you to notice is the chainsaw.  How else would it be able to dismember bodies to bite size pieces able to be fed into the hopper?  Just take a moment to visualize this [...]

SkyNet Update: What do think is happening here?

Now that you’ll have nightmares… …it’s actually a ‘rescue’ robot in Tokyo.  Yeah, right.  See it and some of the other foes we’ll face in the Robot Apocalypse here Here’s another ‘rescue’ robot: Who designs these things?  Will you be comforted when one of these shows up to save you? My imagination only has one [...]

SkyNet Update: IDF Battlefield Snake Robot

Via Drudge: Link to story A robot snake, capable of recording video and sound on the battlefield, is on the way to join the the IDF’s hi-tech arsenal. According to a Channel 2 report, the spying robot, which is about two meters long and covered in military camouflage, mimics the movements and appearance of real [...]