In the throes of an economic downturn, with unemployment rates mounting, the very idea of a robot chef might seem indulgent at best — at worst, downright offensive.
On the subject of designing lovable robots to prepare our food.
In his column today, Roger Cohen spends some time thinking about Jane Mayer’s piece on the CIA’s covert drone program (a subject I have hit on in the past).
Cohen describes how robotics researchers are looking for ways to integrate the simple (yet effective) visual capabilities of fruit flies into unmanned drones.
Somehow, the thought of flying, half-blind, binary-thinking killbots unsettles me.
In the October issue of Scientific American, noted physicist Lawrence Krauss delivers a serious blow to Trekkies and rocket jockeys everywhere: we should probably stop shooting people into space.
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