"Resistance is Futile!"

[Paul1953]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/27/scirobots127.xml

[rpicardi1]

Here Already, The Military's New "Terminator"

Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080227111811.y9syyq8p&show_article=1

[rpicardi1]

Brain Reading Headset To Sell For $299.

http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&feed=ap&src=601&news_id=ap-d8uuaio01&date=20080220

Your thoughts will no longer be private.

[zayphod]

Hey, it might not be all bad!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/wid/11915829

Robert

Congratulations on the birth of your new child, Mr and Mrs Botman.
It's a toaster!

Happened shortly after I kissed her interface.

[Paul1953]

Albert Einstein worked in the Swiss Patent Office. So what?

Robert

Robots currently in use, and those still on the draughting tables arent being built with those parameters in mind.

[rpicardi1]

In 1986 when the movie ALIENS came out, Ripley battled the Alien Queen in an exoskeletal power loader; basically a wearable forklift.

The concept continues to be in development from the modern construction machines to micro surgery - all using input and feedback to translate a person's movement to the mechanics of the machine - either to move tons of material with precision, or to do delicate surgery through a tiny incision on the patient's brain or spine from a remote location.

The Alice from Aliens, the combat mech suit, is already being developed by the military for fighting and moving of heavy materials over difficult terrain.

[mjs2101]

Funny you should mention that. In 1986 when the movie ALIENS came out, Ripley battled the Alien Queen in an exoskeletal power loader; basically a wearable forklift. It was just a movie prop, but in real life, Caterpillar Corporation got several calls from companies that were interested in buying the loader seen in the movie!

There was something I saw on either the History channel or Discovery channel not to long ago about exo-suits. They were similar to what you saw in Aliens but only a little larger than the person in it and would allow the person to pick-up/carry more weight and to be able to cover distances without the person using as much energy.

Mykel

[pstraten]

Ummm. Sure wish I had a positronic brain.

Or even a brain, hee hee. Please send all comments to a dead maildrop: pstraten@mailinator.com. e.g.

[rdamurphy]

Albert Einstein worked in the Swiss Patent Office. So what?

Robert

[Paul1953]

Idealistically, that's fine, unfortunately Asimov was writing fiction.

[rdamurphy]

Maybe it's time to revisit:

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Robert

[van2001ko]

Why not 2028? or 2030? =P

2029 is a year from The Terminator. That's where they get that number from. One of the my all time favorite movies. Speaking of which, I've just got finished watching "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."

[sfrr]

Why not 2028? or 2030? =P

[saxmusickman]

Aliens

There was something I watched a couple of months back, and it's all sketchy to me now, where this company has made these exoskeleton type things where a guy climbs into it and the person can lift and move heavy objects easily. Something like those diggers you see the humans use in Matrix (the last one of the series). Pretty cool stuff.

Funny you should mention that. In 1986 when the movie ALIENS came out, Ripley battled the Alien Queen in an exoskeletal power loader; basically a wearable forklift. It was just a movie prop, but in real life, Caterpillar Corporation got several calls from companies that were interested in buying the loader seen in the movie!

[pstraten]

Chuck,

You mean an end to "not tonight, dear, I have a headache"? What a brave new world! But I might need a new kind of implant myself. Not that I consider myself an old "softie..."