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Jules Makes No Apologies for the Coming Robot Revolution

Posted by mistergroonk in Robots, The Future on October 29, 2008

Jules is an animatronic head produced by US roboticist David Hanson, who builds uniquely expressive, disembodied heads with flexible rubber skin that is moved by 34 servo motors.

You didn’t believe my prophet-visions. You doubt that the robots have formalized and digitized a solution for the human problem. You ask for proof and it is given. Straight from the mechanized depressor labii inferioris of Jules, the talking robot head, comes the doctrines that will doom all of mankind.

(via engadget, new scientist )

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Zeno. Fighting the Singularity with Cuteness and Smiles.

Posted by mistergroonk in Marketing, Robots, The Future on October 9, 2008

David Hanson dubs this founding member of our Future Ruling Masters, “the superhero of the singularity.”

So to save the world, he[David Hanson] formed Hanson Robotics and built Zeno, a 17-inch robot boy, who smiles, laughs, recognizes your face and remembers your name.

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“We want to be damn sure that by the time [robots] become as smart as we are, they have a conscience and compassion and that we are friends.,” Hanson said. “There’s no guarantee. They could be psychotic.”

Hanson wants robots: to think, to learn, and to be more sociable? I see his plan. He wants to give them all the tools necessary for dominating our kind in a grand effort that they, our Future Robot masters, will look kindly upon him when R Day arrives.

Sneaky, Mr Hanson. Treacherous and sneaky.

(via wired magazine, hanson robotics)

More on Zeno’s child-like plans for domination of the species after the click.

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