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    Impressive and scary technology

    Impressive stuff, but as all good sci-fi has told us, robots can go bad!




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    On the BBC today...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19567351

    The US military has unveiled its latest piece of hardware - a robotic dog.

    The AlphaDog - developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) - obeys commands through a touchscreen device.

    It can stand upright, walk for 20 miles without a break and carry up to 400lbs.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan

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