Tag Archives: robotics

Robot Economics

By Raelifin | Published: November 28, 2012

Yesterday I read a question on Reddit which (mostly) boiled down to “What will happen to the economy as robots become advanced enough to do all the work?” Since I wrote some words, I thought I’d cross-post them here, mostly for posterity. This is an interesting question, and one that I think speaks to modern [...]

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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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