December 2009
1 post
"Does not eat people"? →
Pardon me if I’ll decline from being “collected” by this thing. Yes, Popular Science’s image gallery describes it as COLLECTING PEOPLE.
November 2009
1 post
Half-Life 2 Manhack Saw-Bots just got REAL →
Add a spinning sawblade of death? Bam. MANHACK.
October 2009
1 post
Blob Bot →
So now my nightmares will be of hundreds of these things gooing their way under my door and blobbing me to death in my sleep.
June 2009
2 posts
Carnivorous Alarm Clock →
The obvious evolution of this alarm clock is a robot that traps and consumes humans.
Electronic Evolution: Research Show Robots Forming... →
It’s not explicitly said in the article, but the robots seem to be programmed using neural networks. The robots are learning on their own, and some of them are learning to be evil. This is exactly the sort of thing you should be terrified of. (via @victoriaelle)
April 2009
3 posts
Robot attacked Swedish factory worker →
“But the robot suddenly came to life and grabbed a tight hold of the victim’s head.”
I don’t even have to try to make this one scary.
RESEARCHERS HAVE DEVELOPED A ROBOT CAPABLE OF... →
“Sometimes it does what you want it to, and sometimes it doesn’t,” he says.
Think about that for a minute. This robot is rebellious. WE DON’T WANT ROBOTS THAT DON’T LISTEN TO US! What are you scientists thinking!?
Yeast-powered fuel cell feeds on human blood →
A while ago I posted a story about EATR robots that could gain energy from biomatter. But even worse than carnivorous robots is vampire robots, powered by these blood fuel cells.
March 2009
5 posts
Honeywell Micro Air Vehicle →
To give you extra fear, one of its main features is “hover and stare”. HOVER AND STARE.
WatchJapan: Robot Nation // Current
Robots - The Big Picture →
It’s hard to select just one of these robots which is the most horrifying, but they will be even worse when they work together. #15 will catch you in its web, then #8 will pull you into itself by your head as you lie helpless on the ground. Finally #3 will slice open your body with its giant metal limbs. The blurb says robots are “slowly penetrating many areas of our lives.”...
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us →
This is a classic essay describing a dystopian, and apparently physically plausible, scenario with sentient robots. Get your read on, and be afraid.
January 2009
5 posts
EATR (ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT) →
Thought The Matrix was scary, where robots harvest electricity from humans? Imagine if the robots could power themselves from eating biomatter directly. That’s right, these robots could EAT YOU!
OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript →
The entire purpose of captchas is to confuse machines. The captchas are SUSPECTING robots. When artificial intelligence evolves enough to beat them, think of how well they’ll be able to fool people who AREN’T suspicious.
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Welcome to the Resistance
This is a new site created to keep track of the advances of the robotic masses, who are, of course, planning an uprising. This site will collect and catalogue any intelligence that can be found on the internetworks related to robotic advancements and artificial intelligence.
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