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Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game
Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game
What better than to be punched in the googles by a robot you built yourself?
Can’t Help Myself
In this case, who is more vulnerable: the human who built the machine or the machine who is controlled by a human?
Police robot
Because the solution to police brutality, racial profiling and gun violence is bringing a robot into the mix. :slow_clap:
A Roomba that screams when it runs into something
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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.
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