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Shiftheads - A Rescue Robot That Might Also Terrify You
Imagine you're trapped under rubble after an earthquake, injured, and the first thing that reaches you is a cockroach wearing a tiny electronic backpack, followed by a second one carrying a hypodermic needle loaded with medicine, all part of a very real rescue plan researchers are calling paraborgs.
There is now a machine approved to draw your blood with a needle it controls itself, no nurse, no technician, nobody standing by if something goes sideways, built specifically because there aren't enough trained people left to do the job by hand.
A group of hobbyists wired an AI into a…
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