Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and […] have dubbed these creations anthrobots
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/30/world/living-robots-from-human-cells-scn/index.html
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Tactile Contact With Intimate Parts of a Human-Shaped Robot is Physiologically Arousing
Touching less accessible regions of the robot (e.g., buttocks and genitals) was more physiologically arousing than touching more accessible regions (e.g., hands and feet). No differences in physiological arousal were found when just pointing to those same
anatomical regions.”
Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/stanford-touching-nao-robot
Robotics Soft-Tissue Injury Study
Chapter III (1:28)
Stabbing a human with the DLR-LWRIII with collision detection.
Kitchen knife at 0.25m/s (safe according to ISO-10218) and 0.75m/s.
via @kcimc
Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
Over the last several years, when surveys have asked people (in Europe and Japan) about how they feel about robots in their lives, along with a positive perception of robots in general there was a significant amount of resistance to the idea of anthropomorphic robots doing things like
teaching children or taking care of the elderly.