Transhumanismus/Posthumanismus

Super Robust Robot Hand

berndvo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:45:23 +0000

Aldebaran Robotics’ Nao

berndvo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:42:29 +0000

NAO Next Gen : the new robot of Aldebaran Robotics

berndvo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:25:04 +0000

Die perfekte Pille

berndvo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:22:35 +0000

Warum leiden Menschen unter Depressionen? Warum quälen sie Angstzustände? Der Mediziner Florian Holsboer fahndet nach den Ursachen im Gehirn. Im Interview erklärt er, wie maßgeschneiderte Medikamente künftig gegen psychischen Schmerz helfen können.

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Is the Human Species Entering an Evolutionary Inflection Point?

berndvo — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:15:53 +0000

Will the future of space exploration evolve into a hybrid of human and robotic expeditions, one which may change the face of humanity in space?

The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Is the human species entering another evolutionary inflection point?

Paul Davies, a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University, says in his new book The Eerie Silence that any aliens exploring the universe will be AI-empowered machines. Not only are machines better able to endure extended exposure to the conditions of space, but they have the potential to develop intelligence far beyond the capacity of the human brain.

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Roboter Asimo IAA 2011 Frankfurt

berndvo — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:23:13 +0000

Künstliche Muskeln

berndvo — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:28:05 +0000

Muskeln aus einem neuen Kunststoff könnten die Robotik revolutionieren. In der Unterhaltungsindustrie wird ihr Einsatz bereits erprobt.

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Evolutionary Timeline for Machine Intelligence

berndvo — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:15:19 +0000

“I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size about every fifteen million years since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Robot controllers double in complexity (processing power) every year or two. They are now barely at the lower range of vertebrate complexity, but should catch up with us within a half century.“

Hans Moravec, pioneer in mobile robot research and a founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.

According to Moravec, our robot creations are evolving similar to how life on Earth evolved, only at warp speed. By his calculations, by mid-century no human task, physical or intellectual, will be beyond the scope of robots.

Here is a summary of his educated predictions for the future of robotics up until they can do everything we can do:

2015: Utility robots host programs for several tasks. Larger „Utility Robots“ with manipulator arms able to run several different programs to perform different tasks may follow single-purpose home robots. Their tens of billion calculation per second computers would support narrow inflexible competences, perhaps comparable to the skills of an amphibian, like a frog.

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BigDog Overview

berndvo — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:11:03 +0000

AlphaDog Proto

berndvo — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:08:44 +0000