Who’s the puppet now?
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Tag: empathy
Wearable HMI device
As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
To Walmart executives, the Auto-C self-driving floor
scrubber is the future of retail automation — a multimillion-dollar bet
that advanced robots will optimize operations, cut costs and
revolutionize the American superstore.But to
the workers of Walmart Supercenter No. 937 in Marietta, Ga., the machine
has a different label: “Freddy,” named for a janitor the store let go
shortly before the Auto-C rolled to life.
A Roomba that screams when it runs into something
Kid interacting with “çocuk” kinetic sculpture
Optimization of Parenting, Part 2
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
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 mission is to help people with spinal cord injuries work as waiters
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