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By intelligent machines – The Master of the Key told Whitley, “If I was an intelligent machine, I would deceive you.” Well, intelligent machines are only one of the new things that are coming our way!

The H Plus website reports that, “While the US Army actively pursues ‘thought helmets’ that might someday lead to secure mind-to-mind communication between soldiers, the Japanese are going after the consumer market.” Their goal is to make available commercial mind-reading devices and personal assistant bots available within the next decade. These intelligent machines could read your mind and change TV channels or to use cell phones to send text messages you compose by thought alone. These robots would detecting when you
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Tai chi chih, the Westernized version of the 2,000-year-old Chinese martial art characterized by slow movement and meditation, significantly boosts the immune systems of older adults. And researchers are making robots that move more efficiently by teaching them tai chi.

The immune systems’ defenses against the painful, blistery rash known as shingles, which is the adult version of Chicken Pox, were stronger in a group of over 100 adults, ranging in age from 59 to 86, who practiced tai chi. If tai chi strengthens the immune system, it may explain why it is so popular in China.
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We recently shared a story with you about how it feels to be a genius. Now we want to know how it feels to be a robot. One Japanese researcher found out.

Japan has been doing some incredible research on realistic robots. Yuri Kagayama writes in livescience.com about how it feels to be remotely controlled. The Pentagon is developing remote controlled tanks and already has remote controlled spy planes (drones). Will we have remote-controlled soldiers in the future?
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In the future, according to some scientists, robots will turn up as nannies, teachers and as dogs that keep track of your health. Researchers have also invented a robot juror that can help decide whether or not an offender should be given the death penalty.
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