Links

http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2006/07/07/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-robot-deloverlordsdel-underlings/

http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/79643-0/

Quantum Computing

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/magazines/fortune/futureoftech_quantum.fortune/index.htm

"The age of computing has not even begun," says Stan Williams, a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard. "What we have today are tiny toys not much better than an abacus."

"Quantum technology effects on the world over the next 20 years will include a human-brain-imitating neural network and true (or near-true) artificial intelligence."

NEDO

"NEDO says its goals include having some sort of robot or robots that genuinely help with housework within the next five years. They want to have more sophisticated robots by 2020 or 2030 that are fully integrated into society helping with everyday social needs."

http://ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=61361

E-mailed

I e-mailed the following link to senators, a governor, the vice president, and White House staff.

http://roboticnation.blogspot.com

Navigation guides robotic future

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/ra-ngr072706.php

"UQ scientists will use a $3.3 million grant to build a new generation of robots that can learn about their physical spaces based on animal navigation skills.
The UQ led team received one of three Thinking Systems grants announced by the Federal Government on Monday.

The team will study the navigation skills of bees, rodents and humans as a way ofunderstanding the function of the hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls navigation.

"One thing that makes us special as humans is that we might be using this part of the brain not just to map physical space, which we do very effectively, but also to map the space of ideas," Team Leader and UQ cognitive scientist Professor Wiles said.

Professor Wiles said the results would then be transferred into computer models to map ideas."

Eight-core Xeon systems this year

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0607intelcore2.html

Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute

http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/

Radiation-Armed Robot Rapidly Destroys Human Lung Tumors

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/522187/

Skunk Works' Polecat printable robotic plane

http://wearables.engadget.com/2006/07/23/skunk-works-polecat-printable-robotic-plane/

"It's not often we're sitting on a sophisticated 3D printer and four tons of material, but Lockheed Martin apparently wanted to see if they could "print" out a new plane from their Skunk Works facility in California. The result is the Polecat, a 91-foot wide, four-ton unmanned flying wing with the major claim to fame being that most of its internal structures were rapid prototyped on said 3D printers. Our broke selves still have to stick with printing out our airplanes in paper (though our folding techniques have significantly advanced since the Cold War), but it's strange to think of a future where aircraft (and landcraft, and seacraft) aren't built by people and machines, but instead are squirted out of tanks of polymer and sent on their merry little ways."