Optimization of Parenting, Part 2 is a robot arm that reacts whenever a baby in the bassinet cries or awakes from sleep.
Addie Wagenknecht
Addie Wagenknecht, “Optimization of Parenthood, Part 2,” 2012
Robots enable bees and fish to talk to each other
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Anti-Drawing Machine
[…] Anti-Drawing Machine project explores possible alternatives of how we engage with robots today.
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The Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori
More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, then a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, wrote an essay on how he envisioned people’s reactions to robots that looked and acted almost human. In particular, he hypothesized that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached, but failed to attain, a lifelike appearance. This descent into eeriness is known as the uncanny valley.
The robo-doll interpreted snoring as a request
World’s first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff
The robo-doll interpreted snoring as a request it couldn’t understand, and thus woke guests continually through the night, asking them to rephrase.
Select all squares with robots
The mission is to help people with spinal cord injuries work as waiters
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Duel with robotaxi
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
A man waved a .22-caliber revolver at a Waymo [Google self-driving] vehicle.