The Daily Mail ran the following picture in this article about the raid on the home of alleged Ricin-mailer Kevin Curtis:
Notice the device the guy on his knees is holding. I could be wrong about this, but it looks … Read more »
I, for one, welcome our eagle-claw grasping robot overlords…
A few months ago, I attended a robotics conference in Edina, Minnesota, invited by a gentleman named Andrew Borene, who helped organize it. There were a lot of impressive robots at the conference. But in many ways, the one that … Read more »
Speaking of Wired Danger Room, check this out: A robotic dog that tosses cinderblocks around with its head. Spencer Ackerman explains:
Flesh-and-blood dogs merely fetch. The robotic pooch that Darpa funded can throw.
Boston Dynamics’ BigDog started life
Over at Slate, Torie Bosch has an interview with a cyborg about, well, cyborg rights. It’s very interesting, and it goes to an issue I’ve been thinking about for a while. We think of cyborgs as inherently requiring … Read more »
Over at Forbes.com, Greg McNeal takes a break from guest blogging for Lawfare to body slam Human Rights Watch over its “killer robots” campaign. Last week, I published a grass roots letter from Human Rights, along with Tom Malinowski’s … Read more »
Just what you need in life: Your very own cybernetic cockroach. Now, thanks to the folks at an outfit called “Backyard Brains” (“Neuroscience for Everyone!”), you can have one.
No, I am not making this up. It’s the Roboroach, … Read more »
A few weeks ago, Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch had a thoughtful and serious—if sometimes playful—exchange with Matt, Ken, and me over fully autonomous weapons systems. But there seems to be another, less serious, side of Human Rights Watch’s … Read more »
Back on December 11, 2012, I posted a special Readings page of links to articles, reports and other materials on autonomous weapon systems and their regulation. It is updated periodically; I’ve just added new articles by Michael Schmitt and Jeffrey … Read more »
The American Society of International Law has released a new “ASIL Insight” on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems. (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-technical “backgrounders” for journalists, the general public, and anyone looking … Read more »
Bryant Walker Smith (a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society) has authored a new CIS White Paper on whether self-driving cars are, or can be, legal in the United States. His answer is … Automated Vehicles are Probably … Read more »
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released an interim report on the Department’s handling of “known or suspected” terrorists who have entered the government’s witness protection program. The report found, among other things, that information on some program participants had not been turned over to no-fly list authorities; and, that two such people could not be located—though one… Read more »
