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In the Lab: Robots That Slink and Squirm
New York Times ^
| March 27, 2007
| John Schwartz
Posted on 03/27/2007 4:49:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
MEDFORD, Mass. — The robot lies dissected on the black slab of a lab table, its silicone rubber exterior spread and flattened like a trophy snakeskin. Hair-thin wires run in a zigzag line along the inner length of its pale artificial flesh.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: robots
Okay, first thing I thought of when reading this story is Minority Report. Actually a caterpillar is much more practical as a robot than those mechanical spiders.
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posted on
03/27/2007 4:49:38 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
I was thinking more of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
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posted on
03/27/2007 5:02:56 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Cheney-Bolton 2008)
To: PJ-Comix
pretty soons these things will have more rights that babies in the womb.
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posted on
03/27/2007 7:38:42 AM PDT
by
tired1
(responsibility without authority is slavery!)
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