A robot went out of control at the China Hi-Tech Fair 2016 in Shenzhen on Thursday, smashing a glass window and injuring a visitor. The robot that went violent is named “Fatty” and is designed for household use.
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Madeline Gannon has a pretty clear discourse about the goal of her research and although she tends to blur the boundary between humans and robots, she clearly keeps them in the realm of objects.
Unfortunately, the same can not be said about the description under the video. Clearly Pier 9 is making it sound ridiculous by anthropomorphizing Mimus.
Mimus is a giant industrial robot that’s curious about the world around her. Mimus sees the world differently than us – she uses sensors embedded in the ceiling above to see everyone around her simultaneously. Mimus can react and move quickly around her space to follow your actions and try to decipher your body language.
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For the grand test, they blindfolded the subject and hooked him up to a robotic hand. When they pressed one of the fingers of the hand, it
communicated with the implant, which fired the neurons in the region of the brain corresponding to that finger. At first, the patient was able to correctly identify the location about 85 percent of the time. Then, as he got used to it, he reached 100 percent.“
Testing a balancing humanoid by kicking it… then smiling.
(happens at 1:55)
Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
Part of being a good teacher is understanding that the device that you’re teaching has different ways of acting in the world and different ways of perceiving it
Billard
My old grandmother used to say, anything mechanical give it a good bash.
Humans have been hitting machines probably since they exist (as portrayed in this beautiful supercut by Duncan Robson)
Security Robot Knocks Toddler To The Ground Then Runs Him Over At Stanford Shopping Center
A Palo Alto toddler was injured last Thursday after his parents claim a security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center knocked him over and then proceeded to run him over
Robots using this technology are ideally suited for naturally compliant and life-like interaction with people. When tele-operated, the low friction and lack of play allow the transmission to faithfully transmit contact forces to the operator, providing a high-fidelity remote sense of touch.
Hybrid hydrostatic transmission enables robots with human-like grace and precision
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Knowing these kind of robots have killed people before makes this a lot more interesting to watch.
[…] And she is going to live here with us at the NERVE center. […]