For the grand test, they blindfolded the subject and hooked him up to a robotic hand. When they pressed one of the fingers of the hand, it
communicated with the implant, which fired the neurons in the region of the brain corresponding to that finger. At first, the patient was able to correctly identify the location about 85 percent of the time. Then, as he got used to it, he reached 100 percent.“
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Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
Part of being a good teacher is understanding that the device that you’re teaching has different ways of acting in the world and different ways of perceiving it
Billard
She? lives?
[…] And she is going to live here with us at the NERVE center. […]
Not touching you
Kicking a robot and laughing
Smart actuators
This video by Hebi Robotics is very smartly done. Simple, almost intuitive, interaction shown here that makes me feel in good hands.
No spoiler here, but you’ll have to watch it till the end…
TOPIO has the looks
TOPIO is one of the technology highlights associated with Vietnam’s wikipedia page. The muscular body, white skin, chocolate bars and sun glasses seems the best features for a robot who’s only purpose is to play ping pong with a human.
The moves have “improved” since the first version. But I guess, it will be mostly the looks that defeats a human.
The wake-up machine by Simone Giertz
Humans can attribute humanity to robots and feel their pain
For their experiment, led by researchers from Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, the scientists showed 15 volunteers 56 different color photographs from the first-person perspective of both a human and a human-shaped robot hand in different painful and non-painful situations. Some of the pictures showed a human or a robotic finger being cut by a knife, while others showed the knife at a safe distance from the human or robot hand. They attached electroencephalography (EEG) devices to the volunteers to measure their neurological responses to each image.
Theresearchers found that the human observers showed similar empathic neural responses to the robots as they did to other humans. In their paper, they attributed these empathy levels to the design of the robothand.