Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: AI/Robotics
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A couple of links. The first to a robot that is controlled by the behaviour of a slime mould that has been integrated with control circuitry, and the second link a robot (EcoBot II) that is powered by a Microbial Fuel Cell that produces energy from dead flies and rotten fruit. See New Scientist Breaking…
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Radio documentary from Radio Netherlands that was broadcast in the “Windows on the World” slot on National Radio last night. There’s a Real Audio stream on the following page RNW: Man and machine, part 1. Here’s the blurb from that page, From the myth of Pygmalion down to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to films such as…
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Just finished re-reading this paper as I tidy some things up. Rosenfeld, Azriel. “Religion and the Robot: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Religious Anthropologies.” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought 8 (1966): 15-26. It’s forty years old, written when AI hype was greater than today, but it still raises some good questions. For example, “What…
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Article here from The Korea Times about government efforts to implement various robotic solutions for policing, security and military purposes in the near future. See The Korea Times : Police, Army Robots to Debut in 10 Years. Brings back memories of Knight Rider, Short Circuit (No. 5 is alive!), K-9 and Robocop (of course).
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Article on the Economist web site observing the love for robots in Japan. Has a few religious points of contact too. See Japan’s humanoid robots | Better than people | Economist.com. Related to this is the Robotic Life group at MIT. Head over and have a look at their site. On their publications page they…
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This week’s BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ programme is on artificial intelligence. More information at BBC – Radio 4 In Our Time – Artificial Intelligence including links to the MP3 file (podcast is only up until the next one replaces it on Thursday). ‘In Our Time’ is one of my favourite podcast programmes. It’s…
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Saw this a while back in my copy of Robo Sapiens but there some interesting comments here on robot-assisted surgery. See : American Heart Association: Robotic surgery-stenting combo opens coronary arteries, speeds recovery. Robo Sapiens robot surgery photo by Peter Menzel here.
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IST Results – Robo-rodent gets ‘touchy-feely’ with artificial whiskers. Robots that ‘feel’ objects and their texture could soon become a reality thanks to the innovative and interdisciplinary research of the AMouse, or artificial mouse, project. See also IST Results – Embodying artificial intelligence for some general discussion on A.I.
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Off on Friday night to hear this public lecture at BCNZ by biblical scholar Joel Green. I’ve referred to some of his work in my thesis so it’ll be nice to put a voice to the articles. More details at Bible College of New Zealand – Events – Joel Green – What are They Saying…
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In his introduction to the collection of essays in the book “Understanding Artificial Intelligence” Rodney Brooks raises the following five questions relating to A.I. Having noted that much of the inspiration for A.I. research (and the related fields of A-life etc.) comes from people – that they walk, talk, see, think and do, he asks,…