MIT's web-spinning robot: Be very afraid?
Humanity seems hell bent on creating machines that will one day rise up and have no problem whatsoever hunting us all down.
If it's not some researcher conducting experiments in how robots can evolve behaviors such as cooperation and hunting (gulp), it's some misguided engineer developing spiderlike 'bots that will one day surely have no trouble outrunning humble little bipeds like ourselves.
And now we have a robot that can spin a web or a cocoon. … Read more