watched a talk on Necrobotics, which started by posing an insane question: would you let a dead spider, controlled by AI robotics, perform surgery on your eyeball? and then told us that this wasn’t actually a theoretical question at all.
I left with my head reeling: amazed at humanity’s capacity for creative innovation, a little grossed out by spiders, impressed by the sheer ballsiness of anyone actually pitching the idea, and excited about what comes next. The future is happening now and it’s cool (and icky)
full talk btw https://rio.websummit.com/even...
oh god apparently you have to have an app. sorry
@Bonecondor i'm here to see the eye doctor sorry he's out, you'll be seeing the eyerachnid
@johnsterlacci this tweet won’t get the love it deserves
@Bonecondor DARPA has been at it since 2006 with their Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program I think mostly to create spy devices. Now there's a DIY kit you can just buy to create cyborg undead cockroach's and weekend arduino projects. It's all totally insane
@sterlingcrispin this is freaking awesome
@Bonecondor I wonder if you can feel the hairs
@TomerSharoni now this is the sicko stuff i log in for
@SHL0MS oh???
@Bonecondor This feels like a Black Mirror episode waiting to happen.
@Amor_Web3 someone find the writers i have a next season idea (we start reanimating corpses next)
@Bonecondor New fear unlocked
@PandaJacketGuy is it a fear
@Bonecondor ofc i would im not afraid of spiders
@ratwell0x i think it’s neat myself
@Bonecondor Wow this is so fascinating
@whizwang you would have been so into it!
@Bonecondor ‚Ya we duct taped a needle on a dead spider‘ I‘m in large ngl
@ImNotChenny im a buyer in size tbh
@Bonecondor we have graveyards full of potential workers?
@zkikarus great now the spiders are stealing our jobs
@Bonecondor Please tell me this isn’t for eye surgery
@johnsw it is
@EconomPic maybe we can use the spider to get him out
@Bonecondor This is some Warhammer 40K shit
@zugmanfabio I don't understand this reference