#Tag
GISKARD (1984)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”
What makes someone human? Can a robot be murdered? What is the future of human relationships and what is the ultimate destiny for the human race? 1/5
#bookcover #illustration #sciencefiction #isaacasimov #robots #delreybooks
GISKARD (1984)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”
What makes someone human? Can a robot be murdered? What is the future of human relationships and what is the ultimate destiny for the human race? 1/5
#bookcover #illustration #sciencefiction #isaacasimov #robots #delreybooks
Hmm... dunno what the Waymos will be doing up here, Uber drivers hardly have any business here.
KEYT: Waymo autonomous vehicle fleet expanding operations in northern and southern California
See, they build the robots so that, at the beginning of each processing tick, the LEDs in the eyes are set to light up red. The only code that changes the color to blue is at the end of the ethics subroutine. That way, if the ethics subroutine ever malfunctions, the eyes light up red. It's a safety feature. Probably required by consumer protection laws.
I can appreciate the effort put into this photoshoot to build some pole-dancing humanoid robot security cameras.
Hmm... dunno what the Waymos will be doing up here, Uber drivers hardly have any business here.
KEYT: Waymo autonomous vehicle fleet expanding operations in northern and southern California
Ever wondered how #robots 🤖 navigate our complex, ever-changing world?
#FOSS projects like Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit ( #MRPT), Robot Operating System ( #ROS), & #Gazebo give developers the frameworks, examples, & community support they need to make robots work in real environments.
Dive into this article by Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Editor Andrew Oram to learn more: https://lpi.org/i7v0
#LPI #FOSS #opensource #robotics #robotsimulation #OpenSourceRoboticsAlliance
🤖👕 #Robotics expert Chris Paxton from Agility Robotics explains why multiple companies are developing #clothes-folding #robots, highlighting advances in imitation learning that require thousands of human demonstrations to train #AI models.
The tasks work well because clothes-folding is forgiving of imperfection, easily resettable when errors occur, and doesn't require precise force control like more complex manufacturing tasks.
👉 https://spectrum.ieee.org/robots-folding-clothes
#ai #machinelearning #technology #tech #engineering #innovation #future
Ever wondered how #robots 🤖 navigate our complex, ever-changing world?
#FOSS projects like Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit ( #MRPT), Robot Operating System ( #ROS), & #Gazebo give developers the frameworks, examples, & community support they need to make robots work in real environments.
Dive into this article by Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Editor Andrew Oram to learn more: https://lpi.org/i7v0
#LPI #FOSS #opensource #robotics #robotsimulation #OpenSourceRoboticsAlliance
🤖👕 #Robotics expert Chris Paxton from Agility Robotics explains why multiple companies are developing #clothes-folding #robots, highlighting advances in imitation learning that require thousands of human demonstrations to train #AI models.
The tasks work well because clothes-folding is forgiving of imperfection, easily resettable when errors occur, and doesn't require precise force control like more complex manufacturing tasks.
👉 https://spectrum.ieee.org/robots-folding-clothes
#ai #machinelearning #technology #tech #engineering #innovation #future
This week's net.wars, "The panopticon in your home", is disturbed by HMRC's use of passenger records to deny benefits, and ponders the word "robot" in connection with something that has to be remotely operated by a human: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/11/07/the-panopticon-in-your-home/ #NetWars #privacy #robots
This week's net.wars, "The panopticon in your home", is disturbed by HMRC's use of passenger records to deny benefits, and ponders the word "robot" in connection with something that has to be remotely operated by a human: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/11/07/the-panopticon-in-your-home/ #NetWars #privacy #robots
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has set up a support organization, in cooperation with local governments, to accelerate robot adoption by small and midsize enterprises in rural areas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/companies/rural-companies-robots/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #meti #robots #manufacturing #depopulation #localgovernment
China is looking at deploying robot dogs and drone swarms, among other artificial intelligence advancements, for military advantage. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/world/science-health/robot-ai-drone-china-deepseek-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #ai #deepseek #defense #robots #china #semiconductors #pla #huawei
sysadmins/webmasters of fedi:
I am looking for suggestions of which search engine crawlers I should consider permitting in my robots.txt file.
There can definitely be value in having a site indexed by a search engine, but I would like to deliberately exclude all of those which are using the same data to train LLMs and other genAI. More specifically, I would only like to allow those which have an explicit stance against training on others data in this fashion.
Currently I reject everything other than Marginalia (https://marginalia-search.com/). Are there any others I should consider?
sysadmins/webmasters of fedi:
I am looking for suggestions of which search engine crawlers I should consider permitting in my robots.txt file.
There can definitely be value in having a site indexed by a search engine, but I would like to deliberately exclude all of those which are using the same data to train LLMs and other genAI. More specifically, I would only like to allow those which have an explicit stance against training on others data in this fashion.
Currently I reject everything other than Marginalia (https://marginalia-search.com/). Are there any others I should consider?
🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.
#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.
#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video
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