One eye on the robots
As our regular reader might know, we at Weird Science Towers have had an irrational fear of robots ever since seeing Short Circuit as a kid.
That cute face masked a machine that could slice your head off. Ahem, anyway, the ever-excellent Big Picture has trained its lens once again on metal men.
Above is a robotic hand which has been designed to aid army bomb disposal personnel.
One lump or two? The Shadow Robot company's dextrous hand robot.
Japan's machinery maker Kawada Industries' new robot Nextage cuts a ribbon with other attendants at the opening ceremony for the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo.
Actor Branch Worsham performs during a rehearsal of the musical "Robots" at the Barnabe Theatre in Servion, near Lausanne.
A "toddler robot" called "Child-Robot with a Biomimetic Body" or "CB2" looks around the room at a robotics lab in Osaka, Japan.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
Fantastic! Commercial and industrial robots are now in widespread use performing jobs more cheaply or with greater accuracy and reliability than humans. They are also employed for jobs which are too dirty, dangerous or dull to be suitable for humans. Even how amazing they are I think they somehow cause some threat for me because the almost perfection of this machinery could lead to unemployment of many humans. PFGBest