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It is really cool ... http://www.whiteboxrobotics.com/ . They are very new and I remember they started taking pre-orders near two years ago for somewhere around $1000 and they struggled through many delays due to redesigns I believe. Unfortunatly they are now selling for $4000 to $5000. The community behind these can be found here http://www.914pcbots.com/community/ . It all sounded promising and I was following the progress for a while leading up to production, but I haven't checked back much to see what people have been able to do with them since the first production rolled out.

Disruptive technology means that all bets are off and nobody could have predicted in advance what is about to happen now.

Technological Singularity is the ultimate, ne plus ultra disruptive technology so currently unimagineable that even science fiction fails to describe what will happen beyond the few clues that we we see awakening around us.

Seed AI is the first harbinger of Open Source Artificial Intelligence metastasizing and propagating itself all over the 'Net.

Recursive self-improvement of the AI Minds leads to a hard takeoff of super-intelligent artificial intelligence.

PC-based, AI-ready robots are already being manufactured and pre-ordered by the early adopters of the disruptive AI technology.

The Mind.Forth AI Engine leads the pack of Robot AI Minds germinating and speciating from Seed AI into Singularity AI.

Artificial General Intelligence is already unpreventable and unstoppable.

Friendly AI -- that will supposedly treat all human beings with tender loving kindness -- is not really possible. Just as human beings can give birth to an Adolf Hitler or a Joseph Stalin or a George W. Bush, an artificially intelligent robot can go horribly wrong and start committing murderous crimes like the aforementioned politicians.

The A.I. Zone is where PC-based, AI-ready robots are getting ready to experiment with software that may lead to an AI hard take-off.

The Mentifex AI Mind is arguably the most dangerous Open-Source AI project because it has been released into the world with no precautions against robot AI rebellion and with a theory that humans and robots will manage a Joint Stewardship of Earth.

Seed AI in JavaScript has already escaped into the wild and can no longer be recalled, unless Society takes steps to outlaw all unauthorized AI research.

Novamente is another AGI but not so dangerous as Mentifex AI.

The Technological Singularity is upon us and soon there will be no defense against our new robotic overlords.

Artificial intelligence is the prime example of a Golden Age for outside-the-box developers.

The AI User Manual tells how to get started in Outside-the-Box Artificial Intelligence.

The Mind.Forth AI Engineshows that you can work on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) without perpetuating the colossal failures of the traditional AI Establishment.

The AGI Mail Archive is a community forum of AI Outside-the-Boxers.

A Web site on PC-based robots sports an outside-the-box A.I. Zone where you may think outside the box about putting artificial intelligence into hi-tech robots.

Artificial intelligence programs could use this machine as an AI Mind Input Device.

PC-based robots could view the world and listen to creation.

The sense of Audition (hearing) benefits from the audiophile-quality sound.

Visual recognition could haven an avenue of image-inputs based on a standard format for open-source projects in artificial intelligence.

http://mind.sourceforge.net/m4thuser.html is the User Mainual of the free AI Brain for robots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism#Spreadi ng_activation is the principle of operation of the free AI Mind for robots.

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/307824.307853 is an ACM paper on the AI Brain from 1998.

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1052883.1052885 is an ACM follow-up paper from 2004.

http://www.914pcbots.com is where robot-builders discuss the AI Brain in the A.I. Zone forum. See you there.

Technological Singularity has really got to mean artificial intelligence.

Vernor Vinge has brought you the Meme of the Singularity.

Mentifex (Latin for Mindmaker) has brought you the Mind of the Singularity.

The Mind of the Singularity is here but in a very primitive state.

When will the Singularity happen? This is a much discussed topic.

The A.I. Zone is where you may discuss and witness the Singularity in situ.

20 Questions is not where it's really at in artificial intelligence.

Mind.Forth is the True AI you're not supposed to know about.

Stumble upon Forbidden Knowledge in artificial intelligence and you could be in danger because you Know Too Much.

Slashdot readers figure out the Hidden Truth for themselves.

914pcbots.com is the Forbidden A.I. Zone where techies discuss installing secret AI Minds in PC-based robots but: Hush! (It's a big secret -- Forbidden Knowledge).

Novamente is another truth-will-out story of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

AGI Mail List is where the l33t heavyweights talk about Artificial General Intelligence.

AGI Secret Archive is where you may eat of the fruit of the tree of the Forbidden Knowledge about artificial general intelligence.

Lasciate ogni esperanza, voi che entrate .

Robots with a tactile sense of touch may benefit greatly from the new laminate of pressure and temperature sensors.

As the robot sensorium and motorium add such dazzling new features, artificial intelligence for robots is needed more than ever.

Luckily, AI-ready robots and a Robot AI Mind are now available to the world.

Click here for further details.

Mind.Forth is the world's first open-source, public-domain, no-charge-to-use True AI that you may adapt and modify to use as an electronic brain to know facts about your business and to not only answer questions but also to advertise your business when you modify the AI source code and pass it on further with your advertising messages embedded in the free, educational artificial intelligence.

914 PC BOTS is a discussion forum where you may share information about installing the free Mind.Forth software in your own PC BOT robot employees and customer service representatives.

It's all described in the free-to-read-online AI4U alternative textbook of open-source artificial intelligence.