Should we fear the robot future?

The Future of Humanity Institute recently reported the results of a survey conducted at their 2011 Winter Intelligence conference. The survey asked participants, who came from fields like philosophy, computer science and engineering, and AI and robotics, several questions about the future of machine intelligence, and one of the results is somewhat worrying. Participants were asked the following question:
How positive or negative are the ultimate consequences of the creation of a human‐level (and beyond human-level) machine intelligence likely be?

 And result? 

 

 "Extremely bad" answer is first!

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TurtleBot - easy way to do robotic

http://www.willowgarage.com/turtlebot

Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons | Video on TED.com

The Bioloid Robot Kit

The Bioloid Robot Kit from Robotis is the first educational robot kit based around "smart serially controlled servos" which are not only capable of switching between positioning and full continuous rotation, but also provides you with access to sensory feedback such as position, speed, temperature, current draw and voltage of each servo. Bioloid kits are designed in a way that allow the user to construct multiple types of robots.
Price: about $349.00

Robots could assist in quake search and rescue

Gecko inspired robot and something about tails - bbiomutalism

Seven species of robots

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Robot juggles

Speho, robotic ball

robotic women

 What do you think, would robotic women be pretty? Can look like real women?
See more http://netfandu.blogspot.com/2010/11/women-robots.html

robotics frameworks, software

Robotics Software Projects

• Actin Software toolkit for control and simulation of complex robotic systems by Energid Technologies.
• ARIA robot API libraries Source available under GNU; compatible with pioneers, peoplebot, seekur, amigobot, powerbot and other robots; programmable with Java, C++, Python under WIN/Linux.
• CLARAty - Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy. It is a collaborative effort among four institutions: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Minnesota.

AR-Drone: new robotic games

Iron Man star in army body suit