Robot babies
IEEE Spectrum has a new chart up of different robots the mimic human babies and children in various ways (on capabilities vs. appearance axes). See IEEE Spectrum: Invasion of the Robot Babies...
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Are Robots Threatening Your Immortal Soul?
A while ago, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, theology and robots was a topic that generated a number of books and publications including the ones below: “God In the Machine: What Robots Teach Us...
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Transhuman Films
The blog’s been pretty quiet while I’ve been concentrating on other things. One of those other things is a research project looking at post- and transhumanism in popular culture, and particularly in...
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Robots to be taught how to feel pain
While we’re working to insulate ourselves from pain, we’re also working to make robots feel it. Makes for some interesting ethical scenarios about both human and machine pain. An artificial nervous...
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Robotic hand that learns from experience
An article following on from the one the other day – though from a different source. This time, work on creating a hand with human-like dexterity as part of a larger project to create robots that...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: Some links
Clearing out some links relating to artificial intelligence from my browser bar. The Next Web – How will AI affect my faith and religion in general? A few lightweight reflections on AI in relation to...
View ArticleRobot Theology (Part 1)
Robots, religion and theology are back on my agenda, and seem to be cropping up increasingly in my social media feeds and email. It seems that religious communities have woken up firstly, to the fact...
View ArticleComic-based films (5) – Akira and Alita: Battle Angel
This time we’ll look at two comic-based films based on Japanese manga set on post-apocalyptic contexts. Firstly, Akira directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, set in a future Neo-Tokyo, and then, Alita: Battle...
View ArticleNotes from the Transhuman Frontiers
I’ve spent a bit of time today going through web links that have been archived in the “Research” folder this year. Here’s a selection of things related to various technological and transhumanist...
View ArticleRobot Theology (2)
Way back four years ago, I posted the first part of what I thought would be a series on robots, artificial, and theology. I guess life got in the way of that but given I’m doing some writing on AI at...
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