The robot apocalypse is nigh...
Saw this restaurant sign: "grand opening. robots cook it. humans crave it."
Japan’s efforts to to halt rural depopulation and revive its countryside have failed because jobs alone are insufficient, requiring a broader focus on quality of life, productivity and realistic population goals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/12/26/japans-regional-revitalization-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #depopulation #japaneseeconomy #meti #robots #localgovernment #rurallife #tech
The government at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday adopted its first basic plan on the development and utilization of artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/ai-first-basic-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #tech #robots
Natouille 🍷 🥃 🍾
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🤖 STOP aux bots d'IA qui scrapent vos données ! ✋
Au lieu de se battre avec des dizaines de robots.txt (Hello WordPress & Gitea), on passe à l'offensive centralisée. 🛡️
On bloque les GPTBot, ClaudeBot, et autres directement à la porte, au niveau de notre cher NGINX Proxy Manager !
C'est plus propre, plus efficace, et ça fait plaisir à notre CPU. 😉
👉 La méthode complète, avec le fichier .conf à créer : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/blocage-robots-ia-nginx-proxy-manager
🤖 STOP aux bots d'IA qui scrapent vos données ! ✋
Au lieu de se battre avec des dizaines de robots.txt (Hello WordPress & Gitea), on passe à l'offensive centralisée. 🛡️
On bloque les GPTBot, ClaudeBot, et autres directement à la porte, au niveau de notre cher NGINX Proxy Manager !
C'est plus propre, plus efficace, et ça fait plaisir à notre CPU. 😉
👉 La méthode complète, avec le fichier .conf à créer : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/blocage-robots-ia-nginx-proxy-manager
hypebot
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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
The 2025 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo features robots equipped with cutting-edge technologies that can perform duties on behalf of humans at workplaces and disaster-hit sites. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/04/companies/humanoid-robots-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #robots #ai #tech #tokyo
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
Angela Antunovic
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Alex Akselrod
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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
Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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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
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
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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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