Touching less accessible regions of the robot (e.g., buttocks and genitals) was more physiologically arousing than touching more accessible regions (e.g., hands and feet). No differences in physiological arousal were found when just pointing to those same
anatomical regions.”
Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/stanford-touching-nao-robot
Chapter III (1:28)
Stabbing a human with the DLR-LWRIII with collision detection.
Kitchen knife at 0.25m/s (safe according to ISO-10218) and 0.75m/s.
via @kcimc
This video by Hebi Robotics is very smartly done. Simple, almost intuitive, interaction shown here that makes me feel in good hands.
No spoiler here, but you’ll have to watch it till the end…
In Emergencies, Should You Trust a Robot?
In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from an “Emergency Guide Robot” even after the machine had proven itself unreliable – and after some participants were told that robot had broken down.
People seem to believe that these robotic systems know more about the world than they really do, and that they would never make mistakes or have any kind of fault,
Alan Wagner, a senior research engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute
Judging from the reaction of the audience to this “performance”, I might not be the only one doubting that interaction is really happening. And why do you insist so much that you are not “scary”? Trying to prove a point?
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