Our Robot Overlords are Coming

Brian Spears bio ↓ · May 16th, 2009 · filed under Other

And we’re helping them learn. Okay, that’s a bit apocalyptic, and I for one welcome our new robot overlords, when they eventually show up. The link is to the latest tweenbot story from Engadget, where a group of roboticists in Munich built a robot which navigated its way across the city by asking for directions and mapping the responses.

For a slightly scarier version of our robotic future, P. W. Singer offers a current view of robots at war from the latest TED Conference.

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Brian Spears's first collection of poetry, A Witness in Exile is now available through Louisiana Literature Press. He is the Poetry Editor for The Rumpus, and has just relocated to Iowa. More from this author →

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