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.
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Google files a patent for generating a personality for a robot based on user data
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.
A robot wiping your face or wiping your face against a robot?
Via Boingboing
A robot that climbs humans shirts and pants. Where is it going?
Meet Huggable Robot.
Are you feeling a little shy? That’s OK.
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/huggable-robot-befriends-girl-in-hospital
Pole dancing as a weapon
A Self-Driving Car Might Decide You Should Die
A Self-Driving Car Might Decide You Should Die
[self-driving cars] need a level of awareness we don’t have about ourselves.
Robots should not be used to care for people
EU citizens also have well-defined views about the areas where robots should be banned. Views are most emphatic when it comes to the care of children, elderly people and people with disabilities, with 60% of EU citizens saying that this is an area where robots should be banned. There is also considerable opposition to the use of robots in the other more ‘human’ areas included in the survey: 34% of respondents believe robots should be banned in education, 27% are against the use of robots in healthcare and 20% oppose their use for leisure purposes. Less than ten percent oppose the use of robots in any of the other areas.
European Commision – Special Eurobarometer 382 – Public Attitudes towards Robots
How will we embrace robots as they become more advanced?
How will we embrace robots as they become more advanced? From futuristic-looking robotic suits that can make us faster and stronger to machines with the capacity to understand human behavior, we’re entering a new age of robotics. Watch this episode of Invention Factory to learn more about what the future holds.
If we let him fail this task, he will have a disappointing look on his face.
Lynn DeRose, Robotics Reasearcher
Everything is a perfect in a beautiful world.