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  • Dancing Robots Get Down To Korean Pop

    Dancing Robots Get Down To Korean Pop

    While everyone is currently convinced that recent acts of cannibalism committed across the country point to the imminent zombie apocalypse, I’m maintaing my due diligence regarding the real threat to our civilization as we know it – the imminent robot uprising. All of this face eating and stuff? It’s just the distraction that they’ve been waiting for.

    In the last year or so, we’ve seen plenty of examples of how the human race is orchestrating their ultimate destruction. First, a group of saboteurs scientists developed a robot that can solve problems using past experiences. You know, LEARN. Then, in an attempt to make sure that they are powerful and physically capable of genocide, scientists created an anthropomorphic sweating, push-up-performing robot that can move like a soldier.

    Then there is all of that business with soft robotics (warning: nightmare inducing, NSFL content be thar). Those creepy crawly bots can move via low-pressure air and can fit into small spaces.

    When you couple all of that with the concept of trying to replace the world’s prostitutes with human-like sex bots, you can see why “apprehension” is an understatement.

    Today’s viral robot video screams cute, funny, and harmless. It falls in line with any number of recent robot dancing videos like those little guys moving to Thriller or those choreographed moves from some little robotic luchadores. Check it out, I mean, they do show off some pretty sweet moves.

    Little robots dancing to K-pop? What could be cuter? Trust me, guys – it’s just what they want you to think. Distract them with cuteness, destroy them with impunity. You can enjoy this little demonstration from the Korean Yeosu Expo all you want, just don’t let your guard down.

    [h/t BuzzFeed]

  • The Robot Uprising Has Begun

    The Robot Uprising Has Begun

    In “isn’t this depressing” news, Japanese engineers have created a new robot that is likely the prototype for the future robots that overtake and enslave the human race.

    Using what they call a Self Replicating Neural Network (SOINN), the robot takes in information and can solve problems using past experiences –

    “It can think as humans do when taking on tasks that it has never done before. it can make educated guesses and decisions based on its past experiences and knowledge.”

    Associate Professor of the Imaging Science and Engineering Lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Osamu Hasegawa explains the programming like this –

    So far, robots, including industrial robots have been able to do specific tasks quickly and accurately. but if their environment changes slightly, robots like that can’t respond.

    This robot remembers only basic knowledge, and it can apply that knowledge to its immediate situation. If it doesn’t know enough, it stops, and reacts by saying, “I can’t do this because I don’t know how.” So, if you teach this robot just the things that it can’t do, it incorporates those things as new knowledge, and it can solve the problem overall, by including that knowledge.

    Alright, alright, so it’s pretty awesome technology. This video shows the robot in action, performing an experiment where it must make cold water using the correct order of actions.

    But did you catch that little bit at the end of the video? That’s the real Skynet-ty part of the whole thing – future robots like this one will be able to use the internet to communicate with other robots, sending information both ways. This is just another way for the robots to learn.

    Sure, the one robot could tell the other one how to make a cup of green tea, but it could also tell it to quickly bind the humans, disable tele-communications and begin the uprising.

    Just saying.