On AlterNet: robots

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "robots"

Predator: The Fascinating, Twisted History of the Drone

John Sifton, The Nation. February 10, 2012.

Drones crossed into a new frontier in military affairs: an area of entirely risk-free, remote and even potentially automated killing detached from human behavioral cues.

The Rise of Killer Drones That Can Think for Themselves

Rania Khalek, AlterNet. October 2, 2011.

The U.S. military may be a decade or so away from deploying an army of pilotless drones capable of collaborating and killing without any human guidance.

Barbara Ehrenreich: 12,000 Drones, Lethal Cyborg Insects, See-Shoot Robots -- How Machines Are Taking Over War

Barbara Ehrenreich, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. July 10, 2011.

How far will the automation of war and the substitution of autonomous robots for human fighters go?

Eternal Life Through Robots? The Bizarre Theory That Humans Will Meld With Machines

Robert Geraci, Religion Dispatches. April 20, 2011.

Scientists like roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil advocate uploading our minds into robots or virtual reality so that we can live forever.

Robot Sex? DNA Matchmaking? 6 Odd Sex Trends We May See Sooner Than Expected

Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom. January 11, 2010.

As we move into a new decade, here are a few of the sex and dating trends I predict we'll see.

Flesh-Eating Robots Developed for Pentagon

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. July 15, 2009.

Things don't look good for humanity.

Attack of the Killer Robots: Pentagon Plans to Deploy Autonomous Robots in War Zones

Eric Stoner, In These Times. February 18, 2009.

The Pentagon's dream of a techno army will -- and should -- fail.

Government Blows $300M on Military Robots by Man Who Builds Vacuums

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. February 12, 2009.

Seriously ... $300 million dollars ... to the guy who invented the Roomba ... to build violent robots. Seriously.

Are Pentagon Nerds Developing Packs of Man-Hunting Killer Robots?

Scott Thill, AlterNet. November 20, 2008.

A dystopian sci-fi fantasy may soon be coming to fruition on a battlefield near you.

Wall-E's Wal-Mart Robot Conspiracy Exposed

Brave New Films, Brave New Films. July 1, 2008.

The Wall-E theory of humanity.

Feminism Vs. Fembots

Alicia Rebensdorf, AlterNet. September 26, 2007.

Fembots have long been known for promoting retrograde sexist ideals. Will the ad and entertainment industries' latest round of robotic women be any different?