People do enjoy the social interaction with the robot, but it turns out what they enjoy most is not having to have a social interaction with another person at a time when they’re not feeling sociable
Author: julien
The different machines involved in the show are installed on the viewers’ body
Inferno is a robotic performance inspired by the representation of the different levels of hell as described in Dante’s Inferno or the Singaporean Haw Par Villa’s Ten Courts of Hell (which is based on a Chinese Buddhist representation). […] In the many depictions of Hell, the punishments are always carried on the human body and not directly at the psychological level. The excruciating pain and also the eternal aspect of the punishment induces the latter.
The specificity of this performance resides in the fact that the different machines involved in the show are installed on the viewers’ body. The public then becomes an active part of the performance. Sometimes the viewers are free to move; sometimes they are in a partial or entire submission position, forced by the machines to act/react in a certain way. Some mechanical elements coerce the viewers in performing certain movements; others induce a physical reaction from them. For this performance of about an hour long, we have built 25 wearable robotic structures very similar to exoskeletons.
Bill Vorn
Motobot
The anthropomorphic looks and nature of this is ridiculous. Next thing you expect is Motobot stepping down of the motorcycle to shake Valentino Rossi‘s hand and blow up a bottle of champaign.
Mabu : « − How are you feeling today? »
Robohon
A drunken man arrested after kicking a Pepper robot
A drunken man arrested after kicking a Pepper robot in a fit of rage at a SoftBank Corp. store, police said.
Security footage shows the drunken Ishikawa kicking the robot, according to the police. Investigators said the damaged Pepper now moves slower and that its internal computer system may have been broken.
Drunken Kanagawa man arrested after kicking SoftBank robot | The Japan Times
“We are trying to put the human’s brain inside the robot”
“The operator can feel what the robot can feel, in terms of balance”
Tele-operated Humanoid with Balance Feedback by MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab
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Robots Are Going to Take Your Job—If You’re a Man
Robots Are Going to Take Your Job—If You’re a Man
Skills exhibited by intelligent machines are better suited to occupations currently dominated by men. […] In short, today’s typical women’s work is what will predominate in future. On a mass scale, this pattern may result in an involuntary shift in the division of labor,…
It seems the tough streets of Philadelphia were too much for a friendly little robot from Ontario. All the Hitchbot wanted to do was see the United States. But just two weeks after starting its cross-country journey in Boston, Hitchbot’s trip has come to an unfortunate end. Last night, the cute little robot was vandalized and apparently decapitated in the city of brotherly love.