Tag Archives: robotics

Cool Stuff for March Ⅱ

By Raelifin | Published: March 22, 2010

To get this I looked up the number of fans for a given figure on facebook and divided by the number of fans of “I bet this <Pickle/Animal/Doorknob> can get more fans than <Figure>”. In the case of multiple pages, I picked the one with the highest fan count. If it’s not immediately clear, higher [...]

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Vanguard on Robotic War

By Raelifin | Published: December 4, 2009

Vanguard has some of my favorite reporting on global events and trends. This week they investigate robotic warriors, a subject which I have written about in the past. The only thing which was really news to me was the fully-automatic shotgun (3:20). Scary stuff.

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The Next Paradigm

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

Terminator 4 came out this Thursday. I haven’t seen it yet. I hope it’s better than Star Trek. Robotics confronts me continuously online, to the point where I cease to keep track. In terms of military equipment there is Ember, TROPHY, and the old news predator UAV, which I was unhappy to learn now advertises [...]

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Just some tech

By Raelifin | Published: April 22, 2009

Amazing robots:

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Why the Terminator is Inaccurate

By Raelifin | Published: April 6, 2009

Originally this was going to be a reply to Rose of Montague’s comment on my “Raw Data Now” post: “Dude. You’re teaching the machines to read. They’ll destroy us all!” That was clearly in jest, but I’ve actually been fairly worried about future conflicts with machines. Seriously! (Most of the following blog was also prompted [...]

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