“A subtractive 3D printer”…
If you are a fan of the Sci-Fi genre of the robot apocalypses you may well not want to give a robot a chainsaw to wield. If, on the other hand, you are a creative artist then it seems well worth the risk…
In this case the robot is a standard industrial arm with an electric chainsaw mounted where the gripper would normally go. There is no doubt that a gas driven chainsaw would be far more threatening but even so, when the software starts it up you really hope that humans are well out of reach…
Read the full story– and learn what the robot “carved”– at I Programmer.
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As we brush up on Asimov’s Three Laws, we might spare a thought for Johan Huizinga. A Dutch historian considered one of the fathers of cultural history, Huizinga was the leading theoretician of play (e.g., Homo Ludens. Versuch einer Bestimmung des Spielelements der Kultur (1939), translated as Homo Ludens, a study of the play element in culture). He was interned by the Nazi occupiers of Holland, of whose policies and practices he had spoken and written critically since the 30s. Huizinga died in detention on this date in 1945.
