·         From Gutenberg to the Internet Timeline - An Annotated Chronology of the History of Information - by Jeremy M. Norman

·         Internet Archive Book Images - flickr

·         AlanTuring.net  - The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, directed by Jack Copeland & Diane Proudfoot

·         Personal computer origins - BBC, Slideshow by Paul Kerley, July 2009

·         Bill Gates -  gatesnotes

·         Analog Computing: Time for a Comeback? – by Daniel Reed, BLOG@CACM, Oct. 8, 2011

·         Analog computing returns - MIT News Office June 20, 2016

·         Sir Arthur C. Clarke's ideas about the future of science, technology and human society – BBC, March 2008

·         Inside the Brain: A Journey Through Time - LiveScience

·         A Neural Basis for General Intelligence – Science, 21 July 2000: Vol. 289. no. 5478, pp. 457 – 460

·         Map of the human brain: A region-by-region exploration of how the brain functionsCBC News, 06 Dec 2012

·         Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip - MIT Technology Review, March 25, 2009

·         Monkey's Brain Can "Plug and Play" to Control Computer With Thought - IEEE Spectrum, July 2009 

·         Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics - MIT Technology Review, November 03, 2009

·         Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens - IEEE Spectrum, August 2009

·         ADCNJ's 3D Stereoscopic Gallery - by Eric Dubois, Feb. 2011

·         'Bionic Eye' May Help Blind See: Retinal Prosthesis Shown To Restore Partial Vision ScienceDaily, Oct. 2009

·         Eyeborg Bionic Eye Camera Shows Winks and All - IEEE Spectrum, June 2010

·         Active Research Topics in Human Machine Interfaces - SAND2000-2779, Unlimited Release

·         Technological SingularityWikipedia

·         17 Definitions of the Technological Singularitysingularityweblog.com

·         Special Report: The Singularity - IEEE Spectrum, June 2008

·         @KurtzweilAI.net

HUMAN 2.0-CREATING GODS, part.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmzPHzu7RlI, 
part. 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Go3Thymuo&feature=related, 
part.4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xLYI3Q6BcI&feature=related

·         2045 Strategic Social Initiative

·         Global Future 2045 – Towards a New Strategy for Human Evolution

·         Humans (TV Series)  -  Wikipedia 2015

·         Humans  - aMC.com

·         Improving Technology Forecasts

·         MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies, - Policy Horizons Canada, 2013

·         Plastic that self-repairs using light unleashed by prof, - The A Register, March 2012  

·         Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street - Wired Magazine, Feb 2009

·         Robotics  -  Wikipedia

·         Robots - Modern Marvels - History Channel DocumentaryYou Tube, Feb. 2013

·         Robotics Trends

·         Robotic age poses ethical dilemmaBBC, March 2007

·         Three new Laws of Robotics for the early 21st Century – EDN, August 2009

·         From Sumerian Codes to Computer Code - Notes by Prof. Luigi Logrippo, August 2009

·         As robots become more common, Stanford experts consider the legal challengesStanford University News,

·         Robotics at Boston Dynamics

·         Powered ExoskeletonWikipedia

·         Cyberdyne Inc

·         Hybrid Assistive Limb (also known as HAL) Wikipedia

·         Honda's  Walking  Assist Device

·         Exoskeletons Around the World – Pictorial - IEEE Spectrum, October 2005

·         The Rise of Rented Robotic Suits for the Disabled - IEEE Spectrum, October 2008    

·         Japanese Exoskeletons Stroll Through Tokyo Streets - IEEE Spectrum, August 2009

·         British Military: Wars of Future Will Pit Machine Against Machine – Fox NEWS.com, March 2009

·         Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds Science Daily, October 2009

·         Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots - PHYSORG.com, August 2009

·         IEEE Spectrum's blog on robots and other silicon-brained contraptions

·         'A robot is like a friend' in JapanBBC, December 2010

·         Cyberdyne Systems – wikia.com

·         Emil’s early 80s Haptic sensor, human-interface and tendon-driven wrist joint

·         Tactile interfaces: a state-of-the-art surveyISR 2004

·         Robotic Hand Copying My Actions - ISEF 2000

·         Amazing Robotic HandOctober 2006

·         High-Speed Robot Hand - August, 2009

·         ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered RobotAugust 2009

·         ECCEROBOT Homepage

·         "Fluidhand" prosthetic hand – PHYSORG.com, April 2008

·         New robotic hand 'can feel' BBC, October 2009

·         Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughtsThe Associated Press, December 2009

·         iCub, the robot to mimic the actions of a child BBC, February 2009

·         "Flame" - the TU Delft robot that walks like humans, Live Science, May 2008

·         Inside the house of the future BBC, April 2008

·         Supermarket of the futureBBC, June 2008

·         Saya the robot makes debut as a teacher at Japanese schoolnews.com.au, March 2009

·         Telepresence Robots May Enable Blue-Collar Commuting IEEE Spectrum, July 2009

·         Robots That Can Assist With Elder Care Created by UMass Amherst Researchers , April 2008

·         Surgical robot to treat wounded soldiers on the frontlines from far away operations center - Reuters, May 2009

·         Robots With Knives: A Study of Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics IEEE Spectrum, May 2010

·         The Invasion of Cute, Therapeutic Robots IEEE Spectrum, July 2009

·         Thomas and Janet: first kissing humanoid robots IEEE Spectrum, August 2009

·         Autonomous tech 'requires debate' BBC, August 2009

·         IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: Robots for Real, November 2009

·         Archive Gallery: 137 Years of Robotic FascinationPopular Science, April 2010

·         Robot Olympics held in ChinaBBC, June 2010

·         Honda - ASIMO Humanoid Robots 

·         Inventor Demonstrates Humanoid Robot's Latest AI Abilities - PHYSORG.com, August 2009

·         Talks David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion", October 2009

·         Kojiro Humanoid Robot Mimics Your Musculoskeletal System - IEEE Spectrum, April  2010

·         Hiroshi Ishiguro: The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself - IEEE Spectrum, April  2010

·         First robot able to develop and show emotions is unveiledThe Guardian, August 2010

·         Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic - IEEE Spectrum, March  2011

·         Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch -  TEDGlobal, July 2011

·         “InMoov”, the first Open Source life size humanoid robot you can 3D print and animate, - Gael Langevin’s project, January 2012

·         Humanoid robot makes storefront debut in Valentine’s experimentReuters, February 2012

·         Can you build a human body?BBC, News, Health, March 2012

·         Innorobo 2012: Is the dream of having a robot companion over? BBC, News, Technology, March 2012

·         Designing Human-like RobotsVoice of America, Science World, March 2012

·         Humanoid Robot Has Muscles, Joints and Tendons, - Mashable, April 2012

·         World's 10 Most Amazing Robots, - YouTube, October 2013

·         We Will End Disability by Becoming Cyborgs, - IEEE Spectrum, May 2014

·         Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics supplemented for 21st century care robots, - University of Warwick-Press Release, August 2014

·         The most stunning space pictures of 2014, - BBC News, Science-Environment, December 2014

·         Back to the future: How science fiction envisioned 2015 - CBC News, December 2014

·         Who's Afraid of the Uncanny Valley? - IEEE Spectrum, April  2010

·         Robots: Is the uncanny valley real? -  BBC, Future, September 2013

·         The Uncanny Valley - A play by Francesca Talenti that puts a robot actor on stage - IEEE Spectrum, January 2015

·         Virtual infant BabyX prompts question: how do we feel about AI that looks so much like us? - CBC News, November 2017

·         5 ways robots are delivering health care in Saskatchewan - CBC News, February 2015

·         Move over R2-D2: A robot for everyone, - BBC Capital, May 2015

·         Bionic body parts transform, restore human abilities -From eyes to hands to exoskeletons, 8 examples of humans merging with machines, - CBC News, June 2015

·         Electrical circuit made of gel can repair itself, - PHYS.ORG, August 2015

·         4 Reasons Programming Robots is Difficult, - Robotics Trends, August 2015

·         Intelligent Machines  - a BBC News series looking at AI and robotics, September 2015 

·         Thought Process: Building an Artificial Brain - The Washington Post, September 2015 

·         A quoi rêvent les robots? -  Le Monde.fr,  janvier 2016

·         L’Intelligence artificielle  - Le Monde.fr – Bande dessinée en avant-première, février 2016

·         Granular Computing: Pursuing New Avenues of Computational Intelligenceby Witold Pedrycz, IEEE CIS DLP Seminar, Ottawa, March 2016

·         Humanoid robots can’t outsource their brains to the cloud due to network latencyars technica uk, March  2016

·         How The Travel Industry Is Relying On Robots More And MoreThe Huffington Post Canada, March 2016

·         Hellblade | Development diary: Making a virtual human | PS4YouTube,  March 2016

·         Educating Game Designers - Too Much "Game" at Game Schools - Extra CreditsYouTube,  April 2016

·         Body Talk system - Max Planck Society

·         Humanoïdes, mains robotiques et poissons mécaniques à Paris -  Le Monde.fr / grands-formats, 28 mai 2016

·         Pourquoi les mains des robots sont encore loin d’égaler celles de l’homme -  Le Monde.fr / pixels, 25 nov.2016

·         Special Report: Trusting Robots - Robots will soon have the power of life and death over human beings. Are they ready? Are we? – IEEE Spectrum, May 2016

·         Robot hands can learn on their ownYouTube,  May 2016

·         Story Time: ONR Researchers Create ‘Human User Manual’ for Robots - Office of Naval Research, News and Media Center, June 2016

·         Networks of ‘Things’- NIST Special Publication 800-183by Jeffrey Voas, US National Institute of Standards and Technology, July 2016

·         Best 5 Humanoid Robots till 2016 (ASIMO , Atlas robot , Valkyrie robot , InMoov robot , NAO robot ) - Humanoid Robot, YouTube, July 2016

·         Meet ‘ROSS,’ the bankruptcy robo-lawyer employed by some of the world’s largest law firms  - Financial Post, August 2016

·         Students' app helps dementia patients find memories - Cornell Chronicle, August 2016

·         Caring computers set to respond to human emotions in dementia projectThe Irish Times, August 2016

·         We might live in a computer program, but it may not matter - BBC, Earth, September 2016

·         Helping Robots Be Less Robotic -  NIST, Taking Measure Blogs, November 2016

·         The rise of the robots?BBC, December 2016

·         What will humans look like in 100 years?by Juan Enriquez, Ted Talk, 2016, on YouTube

·         Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, overview, full document-version 1 -  IEEE

·         Humans Need Not Apply - G.G.P. Grey, YouTube, August 2014

·         Building Robots Without Ever Having to Say You’re SorryIEEE Spectrum, February 2017

·         Universal Basic Income Schemes Stoked by Robotics Fears -  rbr / robotics business review, February 27, 2017

·         The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill GatesQuartz, February 2017

·         'As well or better than humans': Automation set for big promotions in white-collar job market CBC News, March 01, 2017

·         NCI Agency Announces Winners of Second Annual Defence Innovation ChallengeNCI Agency, 04 April, 2017

·         Tonight Showbotics: Jimmy Meets Sophia the Human-Like Robot  – YouTube,  April 2017

·         What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex - IEEE Spectrum, June 2017

·         Entretien avec un robot, Tribune de Genève, 8 juin 2017

·         Automation Across the Nation: Understanding the potential impacts of technological trends across Canada - DATA INSIGHTS, Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, June 2017

·         Canadian Cities And Industries Most At Risk From Automation - The Huffington Post Canada, June 9, 2017

·         Five robots that are changing everything - BBC, June 2017

·         Research into exoskeleton walking devices big leap forward for human-robot interactionsCBC News, June 22, 2017

·         AI lawyer can help you with a thousand different legal issuesengadget, July 12, 2017

·         3D-printed 'Third Thumb' a handy extra digit with Bluetooth connectionCBC News, July 24, 2017

·         Professor Einstein Is a Fun, Wacky Robot That Loves to Talk About Science - IEEE Spectrum, July 2017

·         Pepper Now Available at Funerals as a More Affordable Alternative to Human Priests - IEEE Spectrum, August 2017

·         How Ontario put the future of operating-room robots in questionThe Globe and Mail, Aug. 08, 2017

·         Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Hospitals and Airports - IEEE Spectrum, August 2017

·         Biocomputer and Memory Built Inside Living Bacteria  - IEEE Spectrum, August 2017

·         Will AI enable the third stage of life? by Max Tegmark  - KURZWEIL  News, August 2017

·         Is it time to tax job-stealing robots?CBC News, September 01, 2017

·         What is Sensory Information At The Level Of The Brain? – You Tube, September  2017

·         Snapbot: A Reconfigurable Legged Robot (by DisneyResearchHub) You Tube, September  2017

·         Autonomous Vehicles' Future May Be Further Away, Different Than Imagined  -  Government Technology, September 2017

·         An Edible Actuator for Ingestible Robots - IEEE Spectrum, October  2017

·         Can we teach robots ethics? -  BBC News, October 15, 2017

·         The 6 Jobs Everyone Will Want in 2040Times, Money-October 17, 2017

·         Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords  - The New Yorker, October 23, 2017

·         Computer-Controlled Human Operators - A new paradigm for human-computer interaction: humans guided and controlled by the computerIEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine,  March 2002

·         What life will be like when the computers disappear, USA Today, November 2017

·         Beetle with tiny computer backpack is world's smallest cyborg insect, say NTU researchers - The Straits Times, Singapore, November 2017

·         Virtual infant BabyX prompts question: how do we feel about AI that looks so much like us?, - CBC News, November 2017

·         Ohmni, a Telepresence Robot for the Rest of Your Family, IEEE Spectrum, December 2017

·         Robots could replace nearly a third of the U.S. workforce by 2030, The Washington Post, November 2017

·         Turning workers into 'super workers' with robotic suitsBBC, December 2017

·         Electric eel inspires bio-friendly power source, what happens next may shock you  -  New Atlas, December  2017

·         Will artificial intelligence become conscious? - KURZWEIL  News, December 2017

·         Computing With Random Pulses Promises to Simplify Circuitry and Save Power - Stochastic computing may improve retinal implants, neural networks, and more - IEEE Spectrum, February 2018

·         Survey of Stochastic Computing - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, May 2013

·         Uber’s transparency is key to making self-driving cars saferengadget, March 19, 2018

·         Roam Robotics Announces $2500 Soft Exoskeleton For Skiers and Snowboarders - IEEE Spectrum, March 2018

·         AI Future: Microsoft’s View -  IEEE Technology and Society, March 2018

·         The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent SystemsIEEE Standards Association

·         DeepMimic:  Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills - SIGGRAPH 2018 video, by Xue Bin Peng, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine, Michiel van de Panne, April 2018

·         Can Amazon Build a Home Robot That Is Useful and Affordable? - IEEE Spectrum, April 2018

·         The Ocado robot swarms that pack your shoppingBBC, May 2018

·         China’s schools are quietly using AI to mark students’ essays ... but do the robots make the grade? - South China Morning Post, May 2018

·         Intel Starts R&D Effort in Probabilistic Computing for AI  - IEEE Spectrum, May 2018

·         Can we trust AI if we don't know how it works?BBC, June 2018

·         The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines -  brainpickings, June 2018

·         Electrical Engineers Are Building the Future of Health CareIEEE, the Institute, June 2018

·         Robotics & Geopolitics: AI, Service Robots Come From Unexpected Placesrbr, July 2018

·         My robot makes me feel like I haven't been forgottenBBC, August 2018

·         Humanoids at Work -  The WALK-MAN Robot in a Postearthquake Scenario - IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, September 2018

·         Walking and Running with Passive Compliance - IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, September 2018

·         How France created the metric system  BBC, September 2018

·         MIT Researchers Develop Tool to Simplify Product Designengineering.com, September 2018

·         Former Head of Google China Foresees an AI Crisis—and Proposes a Solution IEEE Spectrum, September 2018

·         Robotics Business Review rbr

·         Clever crows reveal 'window into the mind' – BBC, October 2018

·         Univ. of Washington researchers unveil Prescience, an AI system that predicts problems during surgeryGeekWire, October 2018

·         Will There Be a Ban on Killer Robots? -  The New York Times – October 2018

·         Halloween Tricks and Treats: Creepy, Scary, and ‘Mostly Dead’ Robots rbr

·         Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology, Ethics of AI  - The New York Times, November 2. 2018

·         'Human Brain' Supercomputer Switched On to Unlock Secrets of the Mind - The Independent (UK), November 2, 2018

·         Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars - BBC, November 2018

·         Why robots will build the cities of the future - BBC, November 2018

·         UK military's bomb disposal robots come with haptic feedback - engadget, December 2018

·         Think your smart home is secure? William & Mary computer scientists show that's not the caseThe Virginian Pilot, December 27, 2018

·         Toyota Wants to Put a Robot Friend in Every HomeBloomberg, December 27, 2018

·         'Amazing honour': Edmonton BioWare founders receive Order of Canada  _ Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk started the video-game software company in 1995 - CBC News, December 2018

·         UC Santa Cruz launches the country's first graduate program in serious games - UC Santa Cruz NEWSCENTER, February 19, 2019

·         Top programming languages to learn in 2019? Developers name their favoritesZDNet. January 2019

·         Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speechScience, January 2019

·         Virtual Reality Gets Real In the Operating RoomFortune, January 2019

·         A Growing American Crisis: Who Will Care for the Baby Boomers? -  TIME, February 15, 2019

·         Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on efforts to spur development of innovative devices, including new advancements in novel brain implants, that can help patients with paralysis or amputation gain mobility -  FDA, February 22, 2019

·         Touch Bionics Inc

·         Webinar: Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition -  IEEE Standards Association, March 27, 2019

·         Previously unknown flaw in Intel chips could allow hackers to steal private data from your computer, security researchers warnDaily Mail.com, April 1, 2019

·         The kilo is dead. Long live the kilo!MIT News, May 16, 2019

·         Why time seems to speed up as we get older - BBC, June 2019

·         A Neural-Net Based on Light Could Best Digital Computers - IEEE Spectrum, June 2019

 

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