The Surreal Agony of Waiting for Robots to Do Something
“Do something!” someone yelled.
What usually happened next, after someone would yell at a robot to do something, is the robot either did nothing, did something very, very slowly, or fell.
The Surreal Agony of Waiting for Robots to Do Something
“Do something!” someone yelled.
What usually happened next, after someone would yell at a robot to do something, is the robot either did nothing, did something very, very slowly, or fell.
Is it cheating if you fuck a robot?
I dunno LOL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@hellocatfood
In this plant, robots are kept behind safety cages to prevent accidental contact with humans.
The American people are smart and won’t stand for this inequality upon us humans and definitely won’t support it.
In the past years Driessens & Verstappen have developed three devices for automated skin caress: Spear is a first attempt to reproduce the unpredictable movements of a blade of grass when it is blowing in the wind and gently touches your skin. Tickle is a small autonomous robot with a pair of nubbed rubber caterpillar tracks. Tickle Salon is a robotic installation that uses a suspended probe to carry out sensitive movements over the surface of the skin.
Extract of US Patent N°: 8,996,429 B1
A robot may access a user device to determine or identify information about a user, and the robot may be configured to tailor a personality for interaction with the user based on the identified information. A robot may further receive data associated with the user to identify the user, such as using speech or face recognition. The robot may provide a personalized interaction or response to the user based on the determined information of the user. In some examples, a robot’s personality or personalization can be transferred from one robot to another robot, or information stored on one robot can be shared with another robot over the cloud.
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Are you feeling a little shy? That’s OK.
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/huggable-robot-befriends-girl-in-hospital