‘robot slaves’

You Will Gesture Your Robot Touch Screen, and You Will Like It

04 Aug, 2010 by in TECH

My mouth… is full of soup. It’s also gapping wide open. So, soup is falling all over my desk as I watch the future controlled by our appendages. Appendages that haven’t been detached by our robot friends, but are being used to manipulate where we want them to display information… or interact with our environment.

It’s another project out of the MIT Media Lab called LuminAR. The idea is to take the computer display off the screen and move it where ever you need it. In addition, the display is projected by a robotic arm.

Don’t worry, it’s taught to do your bidding with programming to recognize your hand gestures and display interfaces according to the surrounding environment. So, no chance at all it would recognize something (YOU) as a threat and shoot beams of high-intensity light into your retinas.

Here’s the video…
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Robots Won’t Eat You, Just Take Your Job.

14 Jun, 2010 by in TECH

Very, very slick of the robot sympathizers over the past few decades. Distract the humans with fear of robot attacks, while they slowly integrate them into the working class and family life.

Yep, you’ll be surprised when you come home and your baby has been replaced by a multi-appendage, potato-peeling chubbling that ‘sleeps’ through the night and has coffee made for you in the morning, but you’ll be even more surprised when you find your office chair has been replaced by a circuit board that looks like you and does your job 24 hours a day.

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Ask The Reader: After Robot Apocalyspe, What Design Task Should Our New Robot Slaves Do? {Poll}

18 Nov, 2009 by in CULTURE

Of course it’s a valid question! We just can’t ignore that after mankind’s self-imposed moment of singularity, we’ll all basically be fleshy corpuscles in the eyes of of our sentient, mechanized masters. That is until we realize that robots hate anything made of peanut butter. You know it’ll happen.

So, ok, most of you may think that the robots will wipe us out. Here at SolidSmack, we’re naively optimistic, so we’ve just got to know what you think will be delegated to robots… for planning purposes. You just can’t be too prepared.

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