Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
Over the last several years, when surveys have asked people (in Europe and Japan) about how they feel about robots in their lives, along with a positive perception of robots in general there was a significant amount of resistance to the idea of anthropomorphic robots doing things like
teaching children or taking care of the elderly.
Simone Giertz is a San Francisco-based tinkerer and Swedish transplant. But although she says she only does these videos to get kids into electronics, it’s not just about making funny and colorful videos. Or is it?
It’s not about having a human presence, it’s about having an authoritative presence.
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When we put them in a shopping center, we actually found that people are excited about it. They look at him and they run towards him. And two things have come up: one is the robot-hug and two is the robot-selfie
The Alcohol drinking Robot by, South Korean artist, Eunchan Park was invented to stop drinking alone.
“The secret of taste of alcohol totally depends on existence of partner”
TOPIO is one of the technology highlights associated with Vietnam’s wikipedia page. The muscular body, white skin, chocolate bars and sun glasses seems the best features for a robot who’s only purpose is to play ping pong with a human.
The moves have “improved” since the first version. But I guess, it will be mostly the looks that defeats a human.
“It’s something we should be very concerned about,” she said, “because
if people feel they can have an intimate relationship with a machine,
that is saying something serious about how we’re experiencing empathy
with each other.” − Kathleen Richardson.
For their experiment, led by researchers from Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, the scientists showed 15 volunteers 56 different color photographs from the first-person perspective of both a human and a human-shaped robot hand in different painful and non-painful situations. Some of the pictures showed a human or a robotic finger being cut by a knife, while others showed the knife at a safe distance from the human or robot hand. They attached electroencephalography (EEG) devices to the volunteers to measure their neurological responses to each image.
Theresearchers found that the human observers showed similar empathic neural responses to the robots as they did to other humans. In their paper, they attributed these empathy levels to the design of the robothand.
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
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