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mad robotics

How To Train Your Robot To Recognize You

When you come home from work at night, does your robot greet you at the door expectantly, or does it sit there impassively in its recharging node because it can't tell the difference between you, the mailman, and Emilio Estevez? Today's computer scientists are hard at work making sure tomorrow's robots won't leave you feeling emotionally shunned. Check out how researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute are using something called "Active Appearance Modeling" to improve face recognition algorithms that will make your bot snap to attention when it sees your face. More »

8:00 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
705 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: @bigswingdaddy: I was going to say "EM pulser" but thought it would justs make me seem mean spirited. LOL. You win. Poor robots :( more »

found footage

Clubs of the Future with Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, and Crazy Outfits!

I dare you to name a movie sillier than Freejack, a gooftastic flick from 1992 with Mick Jagger as a futuristic bounty hunter (in the year 2009!) who grabs people from the past and sells their bodies to dead rich people whose minds are stored in a giant mainframe. Too bad he messes with race car driver Alex, played with maximum slack by Emilio Estevez, demonstrating how far the poor guy had fallen since Repo Man. More »

5:41 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,528 views, 22 comments

Latest by n/a: I've got Freejack beat: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 1979. Miniscule theatrical release, near-universal scorn from reviewers, resurrected less than a year later as a TV series. One bright spot: Erin Gray in form-fitting costumes. more »

found footage

Repo Man Delivers One of the Best Scientology Parodies Ever

Back in the 1980s, then-unknown Emilio Estevez made his debut in a raunchy, SoCal punk rock cult flick called Repo Man. Starring Harry Dean Stanton as Estevez's coked-up mentor, the movie is about what happens when the repo dudes come across a car whose trunk is full of deadly alien loot. And the alien conspiracy subplot is ripped right from Scientology at a time when the Scientologists were still a power to be reckoned with. This scene captures the loony appeal of the flick, as one of Estevez's weird pals tells him all about "Dioretix" and time travel. Sounds like the plot of The 4400, or maybe just something L. Ron Hubbard would have written. It's time for this movie to get a nice revival. [Repo Man]

5:05 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Annalee Newitz
4,033 views, 47 comments

Latest by tk.: "There's one in every car... You'll see." more »