ROBOTS
New Study Shows Humans Feel Empathy for Robots
On the TV show Battlestar Galactica, the humans experience conflicting feelings when dealing with the humanoid Cylons. While some find it easy to torture the robots, even though they resemble humans, many cringe at the thought of terrorizing the Cylons. I
Transhumanism vs. the Hedonic Treadmill via Futurama (!)
The Puking Robot That Helps Scientists Study Infectious Noroviruses
Wikimedia Commons Norovirus might be the perfect human pathogen. It hacks our DNA to create new noroviruses, gives us diarrhea, makes us puke so that the virus can spread to new hosts—and it spreads like wildfire. More than 1.1 million people in Britain
7 Robot Animals and Creepy-Crawlies
The field of robotics, while taking over factories and a lot of other manual labor, is still experimental in many areas. In a branch of biorobotics, researchers are working on machines that imitate the movements of animals in order to both improve the way