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• We. Will. Never. Learn. In. Time.

  Published: September 25, 2007, 10:38 am

  Tags: Naval Aviation, The Coming Robot Wars

  chaos theory predicts that robots will inevitably rise against their masters. So why this?Here's the UXV Combatant, a new class of warship being developed by BAE Systems to fight in the drone wars. BAE believes that the future battlefield will be full of intelligent robots fighting against each other, probably until they realize they can join

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• Oh. My. God.

  Published: November 26, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: The Coming Robot Wars, Monkeys

  to warn America about the robot menace; the inevitable moment when robots will rise against their creators and, mistaking us for bacon, try to eat us.But have we neglected the monkey menace? Earlier this year I noted that the deputy mayor of Dehli was killed by a swarm of angry monkeys. But it looks as if that's not the worst:Wild gorillas

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• Bill Clinton Faces the Robot Menace

  Published: December 11, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Pranks, The Coming Robot Wars

  chaos theory predicts that robots will eventually rise up and heckle their masters. So this is really not surprising:A University of Iowa professor dressed as a robot interrupted Bill Clinton at a campaign stop here late Monday, screaming for an apology before security escorted him from the building.The professor, Kembrew McLeod, stood on a

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• This is the Worst Possible Development, at the Worst Possible Time

  Published: January 15, 2008, 1:09 pm

  Tags: The Coming Robot Wars, Monkeys

  Noah Shachtman:When our robotic overlords finally do take over, there's a decent chance they'll do it with monkey brains. A few years back, Duke neuroscientists, funded by the Pentagon, figured out how to have monkeys control robotic arms with their little simian minds. Now, if that wasn't unnerving enough, the same Duke crew has discovered

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• Household Robot Helpers for the Elderly?

  Published: February 7, 2008, 9:45 am

  Tags: The Coming Robot Wars

  sorry, but this...Household robots may help human carers look after the growing number of elderly Norwegians in years to come, enabling them to live longer and more comfortably in their own homes, a project leader told Reuters on Thursday.Norway faces a growing shortage of health care staff over the next 5-10 years, and 2020 will be a crunch

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• The Impending Attack of the Monkey-Robot Hybrids

  Published: May 29, 2008, 6:22 pm

  Tags: The Coming Robot Wars, Monkeys

  to move a mechanical arm, a robotic hand or a robot on a treadmill.The new experiment goes a step further. In it, the monkeys' brains seem to have adopted the mechanical appendage as their own, refining its movement as it interacted with real objects in real time. The monkeys had their own arms gently restrained while they learned to use the

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• "Thousands of Robots"

  Published: June 1, 2008, 7:56 am

  Tags: Counter Insurgency, Iraq War, The Coming Robot Wars

  for a Department of Anti-Robot Affairs, I'll switch my support. More seriously, the overall effect of "robot surges" seems to be to shift the cost of war from the blood side of the ledger to the treasure side. This doesn't necessarily make wars a better idea; paying from the treasure side means higher taxes, fewer hospitals, etc., but it

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