My roomba is scared of thunderstorms
I was sitting at my desk just a few minutes ago, drawing, and a really loud crack of thunder went off–no power surges or anything, just thunder–and my roomba fled from its dock and started spinning in circles
I currently now have an active roomba sitting quietly on my lap
Author: julien
Hal was built to suffer. He is a medical training robot […]. No longer must nurses train on lifeless mannequins. Hal can shed tears, bleed, and urinate.
In three incidents, humans intentionally attacked a self-driving car, such as by hitting it, or climbing on top of it.
Waymo […] routinely encounters pedestrians who deliberately try to “prank” its cars, continually stepping in front of them, moving away and then stepping back in front of them, to impede their progress.
New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
Gabriel2052
Gabriel2052’s library of motor movements will know what I’m turned on by, his fingertips ghosting across the back of my neck with the right force-per-unit area. His motorized parts will know how to spread goosebumps across my skin, and his sensors will detect when my breath quickens in response.
https://qz.com/1246712/im-building-a-robot-boyfriend-and-you-can-too/
What People See in 157 Robot Faces
What People See in 157 Robot Faces
If you want people to view your robot as intelligent, consider giving it eyebrows.
#slapmybot 3 year anniversary today. (This is an automated message)
Robots want bitcoin
“There is no isolation once you hack the robot you can disable all kind of safety.”
According to Apa, these vulnerabilities are especially dangerous because human workers have a certain degree of trust working side by side with these robots.
“These type of robots work in the factory alongside people because they are collaborative robots,” he said. “In this case the people trust and they don’t even use helmets.”
Apa said that some of these collaborative robots have enough strength to fracture a human skull.
Source: Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers… | Motherboard