“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.
Humans can attribute humanity to robots and feel their pain
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
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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