David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 25, 2010, 2:12 pm
This robot could be a killer On January 25, 1979 Robert Williams, a Ford Motors employee, was killed by an industrial robot in the first documented case of a robot killing a human.  A robot built to...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 19, 2010, 8:38 am
Guest blog written by Rob Marsh, webcomic publisher (December Sun) and robot take-over paranoid. Do you trust this robot? Hollywood has a long and sordid reputation of promoting amoral values and tw...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 15, 2010, 4:57 pm
Honda's Asimo will be shown following 'Living With Robots' at Sundance As a part of their "The Power of Dreams - Dream the Impossible" series of short films, Honda will be showing the new...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 14, 2010, 7:09 pm
An Intel robot that can plug itself into a wall socket. Robotics news site Hizook has an article showcasing robots that are able to find wall sockets and plug themselves in to recharge.  This has be...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 13, 2010, 7:51 am
CES 2010 has come and gone, and if your are an avid technology news reader you are probably overloaded with all kinds of great information to impress everybody with.  While 3D dominated coverage and ...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 8, 2010, 5:22 pm
Meet Popeye - the robot who hates spinach. Robotic and electronic perception has changed quite a bit over the past few years.  Digital cameras and camcorders can recognize faces and smiles, CCTV sys...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Jan 1, 2010, 2:31 pm
AI is being reevaluated for better performance The basic concept of artificial intelligence (AI) is known by a great number of people - it is defined as "the capability of a machine to imitate intell...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Dec 29, 2009, 9:36 am
First off, apologies for a very content thin December - thanks to everybody that continued to drop by the site despite the lack of any new and terrifying robot news.  January is looking to be content...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Dec 8, 2009, 4:33 pm
How will robotic personalities evolve in the future? Robots that have the ability to think and make their own choices is a fear that has evolved thanks to science fiction books and movies, but how ex...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Dec 2, 2009, 9:33 pm
Thanks to everybody that drops EC here everyday, or as often as possible. Hopefully I've been able to give you some interesting content.  If you like what is posted here, please consider getting ...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 29, 2009, 7:08 pm
Will our brains soon have computer chip implants? Have you ever sat at your computer and wished you could explore the wonders of the internet without touching a mouse or keyboard?  You may have thou...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 25, 2009, 3:44 pm
Obama and the Cougar Cannon President Obama recently visited Oakton High School in Washington D.C. to view their Cougar Cannon robot and speak about the importance of math and science education. He o...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 20, 2009, 4:00 pm
The Laser Avenger. Cool name, terrifying technology. The title of this post might make you wonder "So what is the weapon of choice for robots?"  I think the answer is obvious - lasers.  Most depict...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 14, 2009, 7:02 pm
From pre-60's Cyberman... ...to the head 'sploding Machine Girl in the 2000's... ...and everything in between. io9, a sci-fi blog, has posted a very comprehensive listing of cyborgs in ...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 13, 2009, 5:55 pm
Have a spare million dollars? A few years ago, Michael Jackson had plans to build a 50 foot robotic replica of himself in Las Vegas to help promote any concert he might do in the area.  The robot wo...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 6, 2009, 6:10 pm
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 4, 2009, 7:19 pm
This robot eats souls, and it wants yours Does the robot to the left invoke fear in you?  It should, and officials at the University of Reading thought so too.  Its name is Morgui, and it was deeme...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 3, 2009, 11:39 am
Below is a video of a robot demonstration to what looks like an elementary school class.  When I was in elementary school we never got cool robot shows, just Number Munchers. In the video, a robot n...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 3, 2009, 9:38 am
Thanks to everybody that drops EC here everyday, or as often as possible. Hopefully I've been able to give you some interesting content.  If you like what is posted here, please consider getting ...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Nov 2, 2009, 6:39 pm
Is this the future of Detroit law enforcement? I'm writing this assuming everybody has either seen the movie RoboCop, or at least has a slight understanding of the premise of the movie.  If you ...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 31, 2009, 11:10 am
Since today is Halloween, I've decided to post a few scary and/or creepy looking robots. Happy Halloween!
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 29, 2009, 5:46 pm
Early generation military robots are already in trouble. The first blow to robotic military systems has come at the hands of the UN.  UN human rights investigator Philip Alston wants the US to expla...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 27, 2009, 7:23 pm
Remember the robot Toyota is developing that seemed to be the next step in robots moving similar to humans?  Well, they have already been trumped.  Boston Dynamics, the company that has introduced t...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 23, 2009, 1:25 am
You are being watched. Closed Circuit TV (or CCTV) systems are currently in use all over the world in an ongoing attempt to decrease crime and terrorism.  As a citizen of the United States my exposu...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 20, 2009, 4:20 pm
Hate washing dishes? This could soon be a thing of the past. Do you hate washing dishes? Of course you do, unless you are some kind of cleaning masochist.  Hopefully your kitchen has never looked as...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 18, 2009, 5:47 am
In a world that appears to become more obsessed with sex by the day, it seems inevitable that robots would eventually be made specifically to satisfy a person's sexual desires.  Robots have alrea...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 16, 2009, 10:00 pm
Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, commander of the US Army's 3rd Armor Corps, has repeated his request for robots to be added to the military operating in the Middle East. According to Lynch, of the...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 15, 2009, 10:55 pm
I've been playing around with Twitter today, trying to find decent plugins to integrate a Robot Armageddon Twitter page within RobotArmageddon.com.  Many of them break the layout of the page or j...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 15, 2009, 12:06 am
Here at Robot Armageddon, we usually inform our viewers about new developments in robotics, science and technology that prove robots will eventually take over the world.  Today we are changing topics...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 13, 2009, 9:07 pm
A possible reenactment via Lego If your doctor asked you to take a "spider pill", would you?  I would politely decline, mostly because it sounds terrifying.  In reality, a spider pill does not cont...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 12, 2009, 4:27 pm
The picture above is the E.A.T.R, or Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot.  It doesn't look particularly ominous, until you know how it fuels itself.  This DARPA funded robot does not use bat...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 11, 2009, 12:06 am
::posted by david (contact):: Researchers at Harvard University have been awarded $10 million from the National Science Foundation to build a swarm of robotic bees.  Harvard calls this the RoboBee P...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 7, 2009, 5:13 pm
::posted by shaggy (contact):: Is robotic warfare going too far? Scientists from around the world have formed the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) in an attempt to influence de...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 3, 2009, 1:09 pm
::posted by shaggy (contact):: Welcome to the future Most everyone has some sort of knowledge about Skynet, the computer program that eventually led to the war between humans & machines in the Termi...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Oct 1, 2009, 7:06 pm
::posted by david (contact):: Welcome to the future Most everyone has some sort of knowledge about Skynet, the computer program that eventually led to the war between humans & machines in the Termin...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 27, 2009, 9:31 am
::posted by shaggy (contact):: Lately, a large amount of content coming our way all share a related topic: mind reading.  There are titles like  "Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Ma...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 22, 2009, 12:31 am
::posted by david (contact):: After being announced in June, the Japanese government (more specifically a Japanese space agency/non-profit organization USEF -  Institute for Unmanned Space Experimen...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 20, 2009, 9:49 am
::posted by david (contact):: In a never ending search of information regarding the development of killer robots, I came across a Popular Science article about Japanese scientists going for a quiet w...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 15, 2009, 6:35 pm
::posted by shaggy (contact):: ::proof sent by SonofNero:: SonofNero sent in a link to a story that happened in Australia in 2008, so it's a little old, but still an interesting topic. It is in...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 15, 2009, 4:48 pm
::posted by shaggy (contact):: I'm posting this from my mobile phone so this will be short but sweet.  Robotics company Boston Dynamics won funding from DARPA to build a "hopper" robot that is a...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 13, 2009, 7:05 pm
::posted by terroristatm (contact):: Robots are slowly beginning to pick up more and more skills to make them human-like or better.  Toyota has built and demonstrated a robot that is able to run.  ...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 12, 2009, 4:39 pm
::posted by shaggy (contact):: Remember the old TV show The 6 Million Dollar Man with Lee Majors or the more recent Bionic Woman?  The premise of these fictional shows was that after some kind of ho...
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David Witteveen posted an article on Robot Armageddon - Sep 9, 2009, 10:20 pm
::posted by shaggy (contact):: Hopefully you've already read the original post.  More information has been found, and it really proves that personal robot helpers at home an in hospitals is a po...
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