Hadn’t seen this yet, recording for posterity.
He envisions that people will turn to robots for the illusion of a living presence to satisfy their emotional needs. …
One of those future products is the so called “Funktionide“. It is an amorph object whose intention is to provide the owner with an atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of [...]
Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie (Discover)
Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Floreano and his colleagues outfitted robots with light sensors, rings of blue [...]
Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics New ‘Terminator’ Robots Go in Harm’s Way
Lethal military robots are currently deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ground-based robots like QinetiQ’s MAARS robot (shown here), are armed with weapons to shoot insurgents, appendages to disarm bombs, and surveillance equipment to search buildings.
Robots [...]
I’ve upgraded my wordpress install and reskinned the website, and as you can see I need to make some new title bars to give the blog the character and style it deserves. The theme I am using (Atahualpa) is just incredible, and it will let me cycle through title images. I want to generate [...]
Bionic penguins take to the water – and the skies
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Tweenbots (via Gizmodo via Lally)
The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.
Video after the break.
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