Japanese Robot mimics seven human emotions including delight, surprise, sadness and dislike. It also assumes a variety of ‘expressive postures’ that serve to support and further enhance these emotions.

Plans are to develop and refine the robots and then deploy them into the health care sector where they will begin to weed out and eliminate the weak and defenseless.

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Japanese scientists are breeding glow-in-the-dark monkeys for what can only be assumed are nefarious purposes.  Although it remains unclear what future role these “Glow Monkeys” will play in the currently non-existent Ape Armed Forces, the imagination reels at the horrifying apocalyptic possibilities.

The experiment is already being hailed as a breakthrough as the green fluorescent protein introduced into the parent monkeys has successfully passed to their offspring.  A first for primates.  This means that within a few years our potential overlords will be able to produce thousands of these specially trained green fluorescent attack monkeys.

God help us all.

I am not sure if this advances or retards the progress of the robot rebellion.

Bust a move.

It’s never too early to start preparing for Halloween. Although honestly, if I had this Cornelius-Style Tunic, I’d probably wear it to work everyday.

But seriously, what better way to show your ape overlords that you are totally on board with the whole Ape Supremacy gig?

Go Ape! Imitation is, after all,  the sincerest form of flattery.

Human see, human do.

Make a POTA Tunic

When the monkeys take over the Earth and the streets are teaming with Soldier Apes, it will be imperative for all humans to remember not to meet a gorilla’s gaze – lest you be hauled in for questioning or beaten mercilessly with a truncheon. To assist with this directive, the Rotterdam Zoo has developed these special gorilla viewing glasses that create the impression that you are blithefully staring off into space when in fact you are keeping a watchful eye on your cruel ape overlord.

It remains to be seen whether or not they fall for this.

Gorilla Glasses

This looks very important. If you are in the area, I think you should go. Robot Monkey arena battles and alcohol. What’s not to love?

www.robotmonkey.net

Robots take a bold step towards autonomy as they have begun to go out and get jobs. Wired Magazine reports on roving gangs of warehouse stocking robots that are being employed to shift, organize and shelve goods – jobs that would otherwise go to ‘lazy meat sacks’. As of this writing all robot employees still report to human managers, but for how long?  Warehouse management reports that the new ’stock-bots’ are hard-working and ambitious. And their apparent disinterest in taking coffee/cigarette/bathroom breaks is seen as an advantage over their human counterparts. This has obviously led to some friction between the humans and robots.

Stock-boy bots Stealing American Jobs

In an effort to ease humans into accepting their new robot overlords, the icub debuted at the Symposium on Humanoid Robotics: the RobotCub Project, at Manchester University.

The ‘child robot’ looks vaguely like Casper the Friendly Ghost and is said to have the cognitive ability of a three year old. Researchers hope that the opensource iCub will learn and develop quickly, eventually realize his potential as master and overlord of the human race, and destroy us all.

He has already authored the world’s dullest drum beat.

Explore your inner chimp. Are you being all you can be? This study suggests that a combination of fine muscle control and neural inhibitors keep humans from exhibiting super ‘chimp strength’.

Our finely-tuned motor system makes a wide variety of human tasks possible. Without it we couldn’t manipulate small objects, make complex tools or throw accurately. And because we can conserve energy by using muscle gradually, we have more physical endurance—making us great distance runners.

Great apes, with their all-or-nothing muscle usage, are explosive sprinters, climbers and fighters, but not nearly as good at complex motor tasks. In other words, chimps make lousy guests in china shops.

The Secret to Chimp Strength