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“The robot made me do it”
The results showed that the group who were encouraged by the robot took more risks
Finger, hammer, nail. What could go wrong?
The Tragedy of Droids
Second class citizens of the Star Wars franchise
Pray for Robots
I’m guessing, like all of us, Pope Francis is concerned robots might one day take his job.
Bonfire stories
Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness
Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness
The robots’ limitations centred on their conversations feeling
superficial and lacking “richness”, users said. They lacked
personalisation and sometimes did not show enough cultural awareness,
and their head movements and hand gestures were sometimes distracting.
On a side note, this article is a text-book example on how to avoid speaking about the fact that capital prefers investing money in tech than to pay social workers.
Telexistence
Telexistence, a robotic startup with a clever name, wants to reduce human to human interactions for supermarket employees and make sure putting back sugar drinks on their shelves is more complicated than it looks, but that’s what capital wants.
Rare sight of a robot vacuum mating with a ventilator
Robot dog fight
Emotional education proxy
Proxy your child’s emotional education through Moxie, a cloud-connected gender-less desktop-size teal-colored garbage bin, which will most probably end up in the mountains of e-trash along with their Nabaztag friends.