Tag: robot
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Link: A Robot the Size of the World
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/a-robot-the-size-of-the-world.html “This future requires us to see ourselves less as individuals, and more as parts of larger systems. It’s AI as nature, as Gaia—everything as one system. It’s a future more aligned with the Buddhist philosophy of interconnectedness than Western ideas of individuality. (And also with science-fiction dystopias, like Skynet from the Terminator movies.) It…
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Without context, we see what we want to see
I don’t know anything about the backstory here, and am just assuming that the situation is as described in the title of the video. As soon as I saw the video, there were a few things I thought were worth noting: In short, given the lack of context, we all see what we want to…
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Comment: New robot does superior job sampling blood.
The results were comparable to or exceeded clinical standards, with an overall success rate of 87% for the 31 participants whose blood was drawn. For the 25 people whose veins were easy to access, the success rate was 97%. The device includes an ultrasound image-guided robot that draws blood from veins. A fully integrated device,…