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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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A self-driving car can choose who dies in a fatal crash
‘Hi-tech robot’ at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit
‘Hi-tech robot’ at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit
And why did the robot look like a person would fit perfectly inside of it?
Friendly guy with a hard power-off button
CIMON the ‘Flying Brain’ Has Arrived at the International Space Station | Digital Trends
He’s a friendly guy and he has this hard power-off button.
Robots have a diversity problem
Robots Have a Diversity Problem – The New New – Medium
[…] not only are the majority of home robots designed with white plastic, but we also actually have a bias against the ones that are coated in black plastic.