I for one welcome our future ursine robotic overlords

Aw, isn't it cute? A robot bear, designed to help nurses lift patients in hospitals. Now the panicky out there will say, oh great, more soldiers for the future robot uprising. I think perhaps these cuddly bearbots will be the ones to carry us to our battery pods and plug us into a power plant. Either that or there are fierce mandibles beneath that cute exterior. Let's just hope their creators have programmed them with at least #1 of Asimov's Laws of Robotics!

"We Are 10 Years Away From a Functional Artifical Human Brain"

Oh yes, this will go over well. An artificial human brain? Um, helloooo? Did any of the smart people out there who think this stuff up ever watch Terminator? Blade Runner? I, Robot? Or hell, Saturn III? (That right there folks is the first mention of Saturn III in 2009). I mean, yes I get the altruistic aspects of this idea, but seriously people, creating robotic intelligence is one thing, but messing with our own organic hard drives to make something artificial out of them? Did none of you watch Deep Blue Sea?? I for one would prefer to achieve immortality the old fashion way: by using a Sorcerer's Stone! ; )
Inspiration for this post goes to this guy, whose blog you should also be reading.

Robot Attacks Man - This is how Skynet starts you know...

True story: In Sweden, a robot designed to lift heavy rocks attacked and nearly killed a person trying to do maintenance on the bot. Long story short, it was supposed to be powered down, it wasn't, and it attacked the person, nearly killing them. Wall-E was unavailable to comment. While I for one do not necessarily mind have robotic overlords, I would prefer if they reached sentience BEFORE they start trying to pull off our heads!


(not actual robot in question)