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The implications of humanoid robots as laborsaving devices are more ominous than most people realize Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In other words, they will know that the ultimate goal is to sweep the sidewalk or do the laundry or do the dishes, but getting to that goal will require lots of decision-making on the part of the robot. So these are robots that are far more capable of taking over basic human labor jobs that now employ a large number of our citizens at the lower end of the economic scale. The "My robot hurt me!" backlash Sooner or later of course, one of these autonomous robots is going to directly or indirectly cause harm to a human being.

Of course, a more sinister scenario involves the possibility of someone hacking into a robot and programming it to do dangerous things. There's also the very real inevitability that the Pentagon will purchase robots and program them to cause harm to other human beings, ultimately making them part of the military forces. So, there's no question that robots will eventually be accused of harming humans and some of those accusations will be distortions and others will be quite accurate. This is going to bring up some fundamental ethical questions about the role of robots in society.

That way, if the robot happens to see someone engaged in an activity that looked like bomb construction for example, then the robot would immediately alert the FBI, the police, or the NSA, and report this observation. If robots were to be networked, it seems inevitable that they would be used as roving surveillance tools to provide information to the government about the activities of its citizens. This would not be publicly acknowledged, of course, and would remain a secret for many years.

It's sort of the way that people now use the floor sweeping robot Roomba, which wanders aimlessly around your house clogging its wheels with hair and dust. But eventually, as humanoid robots become more and more useful, they will begin to compete with human labor, and at that point we have a collision of interest. We'll eventually have the large, powerful robot-manufacturing corporations, which will probably be Japanese companies, facing off against the minimum-wage labor force.

That way, if the robot happens to see someone engaged in an activity that looked like bomb construction for example, then the robot would immediately alert the FBI, the police, or the NSA, and report this observation. If robots were to be networked, it seems inevitable that they would be used as roving surveillance tools to provide information to the government about the activities of its citizens. This would not be publicly acknowledged, of course, and would remain a secret for many years.

U.S. Army tests battlefield robot armed with pump action shotgun; bring on the Terminators! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: The same company that makes those cute little household vacuuming robots now has a military robot that is equipped with a pump action shotgun capable of firing shotgun rounds and presumably killing enemy combatants (or anyone who happens to be standing in front of the 'bot). The robot is called the Pacbot, and it has already seen action in Iraq. The Pacbot weighs about 40 pounds, and is propelled by heavy-duty tracks. It also has chemical sensors that detect nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants.

But the ultimate military robot, of course, is one that is humanoid -- think Terminator, but with an American flag stamped on its chest. A humanoid robot can go anywhere that a human being could go. With the right technology, it could climb a flight of stairs, squeeze through a crevice or leap over walls. It could basically handle terrain that vehicles or tracked robots could not possibly navigate today. This way, America can invade nations beyond those built on the plains, and we can move up to invading mountainous nations as well. There's little doubt where all of this is heading.

Roomba 530 robotic vacuum review by consumer advocate Mike Adams Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In this review, I describe the new technologies and improvements in the Roomba 530 model, and show detailed pictures of the relevant parts of the robot. Overall, the product is quite impressive: It works as advertised, and it delivers solid performance with a more environmentally friendly battery and smarter navigation that handles thick carpets as easily as hardwood floors. Even cleaning the brushes and dust bin is now far easier than in previous models (view the product pictures to see for yourself).

While it doesn't do windows, and it doesn't scrub floors with a mop (their Scooba robot takes care of that), the Roomba 500 series does what it promises to do: Sweep up dirt, dust and debris. It rarely gets stuck when navigating around the house, it's more gentle on furniture than previous Roomba models, and it's a whole lot less noisy than earlier Roombinians, too. Click the following link to view the photo tour for yourself and explore what's new (and cool) with the Roomba 530: http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_roomba_530_1.html I can't wait to arm my Roomba with a Taser...

U.S. Army tests battlefield robot armed with pump action shotgun; bring on the Terminators! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: The same company that makes those cute little household vacuuming robots now has a military robot that is equipped with a pump action shotgun capable of firing shotgun rounds and presumably killing enemy combatants (or anyone who happens to be standing in front of the 'bot). The robot is called the Pacbot, and it has already seen action in Iraq. The Pacbot weighs about 40 pounds, and is propelled by heavy-duty tracks. It also has chemical sensors that detect nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants.

Iraq, can we still count it as a kill?" Or, "If U.S. civilians become a pain in the ass by holding public protests about the use of military robots, can we unleash the robots on them too? Do these also count as kills?" Let me mention my number one concern in all of this: that a Hitler-like madman would someday gain control of an army of technologically advanced robots armed with weapons and decide to use them for some personal or political gain by invading yet another country for an unjustified reason.

In U.S., science is distorted to promote political and corporate agendas Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

NASA is also the organization that launched the twin robot rovers to Mars, also at a cost of several hundred million dollars. Before the launch, NASA didn't bother to test the robots to see if they could take pictures without overloading their memory and constantly rebooting. NASA scientists apparently decided they would only start debugging the software that controls the Mars Rover after the robot was on the surface of Mars. It was a laughable mistake.

Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation Richard Bartlett See book keywords and concepts

In it, day-old chicks were put in the same room with a robot that had a picture of a mother hen on it. The robot had been programmed to move randomly; however, when the baby chicks looked at it, the randomness was disrupted. When observed by the baby chicks, the robot's patterns of movement deviated toward the chicks to a statistically significant degree. Apparently, as I suspected in my pre-adolescent teens, chicks may rule the universe.

The implications of humanoid robots as laborsaving devices are more ominous than most people realize Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

What they want, ultimately, is a robot soldier that can carry a weapon, take orders without thinking, and kill other human beings without a sense of guilt. To the Pentagon, it's the perfect soldier. The problem with human soldiers is that they sometimes come to their senses and realize that killing other humans is no way to make a living.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts

In the presence of the chicks' intention, the robot's movements were no longer random; it approached the cage of chicks two and a half times more often than it would approach an empty cage (B).12 cage Robot's path with empty cage (A) cage Robot's path with with chicks (B) Another possible explanation for distant healing comes from string theory. String theory explains phenomena like electron tunneling. "Tunneling" is a misleading term, since it implies that electrons travel through a tunnel. But in fact, they don't.

The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe Lynne Mctaggart See book keywords and concepts

As soon as they were born, a moveable REG was 'imprinted' on them as their 'mother'. The robot was then placed outside the chicks' cage and allowed to move about freely, as Peoc'h tracked its path. After a time, the evidence was clear - the robot was moving toward the chicks more than it would do if it were wandering randomly. The desire of the chicks to be near their mother was an 'inferred intention' that appeared to be having an effect in drawing the machine nearer.'2 Peoc'h carried out a similar study with baby rabbits.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts

He used a self-propelled robot he called a "Tychoscope," which contained a random number generator. He monitored its movements on a plotter. When it was put in a room, the plotter tracking the robot's movements found that it indeed moved around the room in an entirely arbitrary way (A), at random angles and for random lengths of travel. He then introduced a cage of chicks at one end of the room. The chicks had been trained to relate to the Tychoscope as though it were the mother hen.

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts

Benveniste reasoned that the only substance near the robot capable of picking up positive or negative activity was the tube of water, so he asked the head lab technician to hold the tube in his pocket for two hours. He then put the tube into the machine, removed the man from the room, and put up the shield. After that, the robot's experiments worked virtually 100 percent of the time.

As soon as the man left and the shield was put up, the robot no longer produced decent data. This suggested that, just as some people inhibited equipment, others enhanced it. The shield, originally erected to stop negative influences, had blocked positive ones as well. Benveniste reasoned that the only substance near the robot capable of picking up positive or negative activity was the tube of water, so he asked the head lab technician to hold the tube in his pocket for two hours. He then put the tube into the machine, removed the man from the room, and put up the shield.

Benveniste had a robot built to carry out this experiment, largely to silence his critics by eliminating the potential bias of human interference. The robot was a box with an arm that moved in three directions, mechanically exposing the water containing calcium to the heparin in several easy steps. After hundreds of such experiments, Benveniste discovered that the procedure usually worked well except on days when a certain woman—an otherwise experienced scientist—was present. Benveniste suspected that the woman must be emitting some form of waves that were blocking the signals.

U.S. Army tests battlefield robot armed with pump action shotgun; bring on the Terminators! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Nobody gets freaked out over a pile of robot rubble. Now, don't take my sarcastic attitude about all this as meaning I'm not sensitive to the core issues of war and national defense. In fact, I'm all for defending the U.S. borders from countries everywhere. And the best way to do that is to wipe them out first. I mean, why stop at Iraq? Isn't every country in the world a threat to our national security? Personally, I think we should invade the entire world, and bring all people under our rule, and create a new order in the universe... wait, that's Darth Vader talking again. Sorry.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

In response to this silent threat, artist Sabrina Raaf has created a carbon-sniffing robot. This squat automated vehicle patrols the periphery of a room armed with a green crayon. Every few inches, the robot takes a reading of the carbon dioxide level in that particular spot and makes a vertical mark—corresponding with the C02 concentration—on the wall. The accumulation of green lines begins to resemble grass, its growth visible to—and entirely determined by—gallery visitors.

Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means Ron Garner See book keywords and concepts

When the ego is in control, we respond to life's circumstances like a robot without realizing it. Our real self is the humble, patient, loving, and confident spirit behind the noise, distraction, and confusion in our mind. When we say that we are not our mind, it is more correct to say that we are not our egoic mind. However, before we can see through the mind chatter illusion and naturally operate from spirit, we need to become aware of our emotional body. THE EMOTIONAL BODY Our emotional body comprises the collective energy of our feelings, as well as the memory of our past feelings.

Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation Richard Bartlett See book keywords and concepts

When observed by the baby chicks, the robot's patterns of movement deviated toward the chicks to a statistically significant degree. Apparently, as I suspected in my pre-adolescent teens, chicks may rule the universe. Following his ideas wherever they might point, Sheldrake boldly portrays the power of social and spiritual ritual as a way to initiate, build, and sustain a collective morphic field. "In general, rituals are highly conservative in nature and must be performed in the right way, which is the same way that they have been performed in the past.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

In the GM ad, which appeared during the Super Bowl broadcast, an assembly-line robot hurls itself off a bridge after committing an error; in the Washington Mutual spot, despondent bankers are poised to jump off a building; and in the VW ad, a man is about to jump off a ledge until he learns that he can buy a new VW for under $17,000. Mental health advocacy groups and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention found the material offensive and wrote public letters to the corporations.

Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation Richard Bartlett See book keywords and concepts

Surely you remember that scene where the robot droid is floating around his body, engaging Luke's primitive skills with a light saber by firing randomly at him as if they were fencing with lasers. Luke was getting clobbered by the droid, until, at the point of total frustration, Obi-Wan blindfolds him and has him learn to extend his feelings through the agency of the Force so that he can sense the droid's attack before it actually occurs. At first, Luke gets the worst end of the battle. Then his mind calms and he begins to feel a connection with the movements of the droid.

In U.S., science is distorted to promote political and corporate agendas Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

NASA scientists apparently decided they would only start debugging the software that controls the Mars Rover after the robot was on the surface of Mars. It was a laughable mistake. By some miracle, NASA scientists were able to make the rovers work, but only at great expense and while running the risk of total mission failure. NASA was a great organization back in the 1960s and pulled off some amazing feats, but today it's a joke; a bloated bureaucratic agency whose only skill seems to be burning up taxpayer dollars in the high atmospheres of various planets.

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