We’re here live and on the scene for the Singularity Summit, put on by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. We have a passel of Robonovas for playing with, and there is serious brainpower in the auditorium. We may have a mini singularity just sitting here, if we haven’t already. We feel pretty singular, out here in the lobby with the robots.

Rodney Brooks is giving his keynote speech, Kevin Kelly, Ray Kurzweil, Paul Saffo and other such luminaries are here in one form or another (Ray Kurzweil is going to be teleconferencing in after lunch).

We’re really excited about the fact that RU Sirius is going to be recording us for his video blog. More info on that as it happens!

We all knew it had to happen. Wil Wheaton, formerly of Star Trek: The Next Generation, has been doing something other than blogging for the past few years:

Los Angeles, CA – Actor and Internet personality, Wil Wheaton, has been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of promoting and hosting a robot fighting ring.

Prosecutors allege Wheaton kicked and electrocuted robots that weren’t performing well, as many as fifteen robots. “He just blew their circuits,” said US Attorney Bob Schrumpkin.

That BASTard. We’d certainly never approve of anything as crass as Robot Fighting.

Hello Campers, didja miss us?

Suicidebots was down for the count as Mr. Robotics went to the FRA Championship in the UK (about which more as soon as he finds the damn camera) and Missy SB and The Head Rotor took off for parts dry and dusty. We went to the Burning Man festival in the lovely Black Rock desert in Nevada, to, among other things, watch the man burn early and accidentally ram members of The Orb Swarm against the shins of unsuspecting hippies and drunken frat boys. It truly was an accident, we swear. Even if there was giggling.

More in-depth coverage as Mr. Robotics and Missy SB sort things out at the Robunker. We assume the Rotor will return to the Fortress of Solitude in due time, but we’d have to cause a temporal-spatial paradox in order to find that out before he posts here, so be patient. That’s just how Fortresses of Solitude work.