| Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarmThe article has a nice quote at the end from the researcher: "I'll be done when we produce something that can pass a Turing test face-to-face. You won't know if you're shaking hands with me or a claytronics copy of me."
Also a nice neologism, claytronics, is used in the article, which currently has only about 2000 hits on Google.
Reminds me of the Michael Crighton book "Prey"... |
| Your balance in times of extreme changeA transhumanist Dalai Lama? Answering to a question during a brief interview in Dec 2007, the Dalai Lama jokingly appears to express singularitarian and transhumanist viewpoints. |
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