“It’s something we should be very concerned about,” she said, “because
if people feel they can have an intimate relationship with a machine,
that is saying something serious about how we’re experiencing empathy
with each other.” − Kathleen Richardson.
Tag: robots
People do enjoy the social interaction with the robot, but it turns out what they enjoy most is not having to have a social interaction with another person at a time when they’re not feeling sociable
The different machines involved in the show are installed on the viewers’ body
Inferno is a robotic performance inspired by the representation of the different levels of hell as described in Dante’s Inferno or the Singaporean Haw Par Villa’s Ten Courts of Hell (which is based on a Chinese Buddhist representation). […] In the many depictions of Hell, the punishments are always carried on the human body and not directly at the psychological level. The excruciating pain and also the eternal aspect of the punishment induces the latter.
The specificity of this performance resides in the fact that the different machines involved in the show are installed on the viewers’ body. The public then becomes an active part of the performance. Sometimes the viewers are free to move; sometimes they are in a partial or entire submission position, forced by the machines to act/react in a certain way. Some mechanical elements coerce the viewers in performing certain movements; others induce a physical reaction from them. For this performance of about an hour long, we have built 25 wearable robotic structures very similar to exoskeletons.
Bill Vorn
Robots Are Going to Take Your Job—If You’re a Man
Robots Are Going to Take Your Job—If You’re a Man
Skills exhibited by intelligent machines are better suited to occupations currently dominated by men. […] In short, today’s typical women’s work is what will predominate in future. On a mass scale, this pattern may result in an involuntary shift in the division of labor,…
Taking Blue Screen of Death to another level
Two deaths and 52 injuries were caused when the mechanical surgeon spontaneously powered down mid operation or made an incorrect movement.
In another 10.5 per cent of recorded malfunctions, electrical sparks burned patients, resulting in 193 injuries.
Robot surgeons kill 144 patients, hurt 1,391, malfunction 8,061 times
Is it cheating if you fuck a robot?
Is it cheating if you fuck a robot?
I dunno LOL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The American people are smart and won’t stand for this inequality upon us humans and definitely won’t support it.
Tickle robots
In the past years Driessens & Verstappen have developed three devices for automated skin caress: Spear is a first attempt to reproduce the unpredictable movements of a blade of grass when it is blowing in the wind and gently touches your skin. Tickle is a small autonomous robot with a pair of nubbed rubber caterpillar tracks. Tickle Salon is a robotic installation that uses a suspended probe to carry out sensitive movements over the surface of the skin.
Google files a patent for generating a personality for a robot based on user data
Extract of US Patent N°: 8,996,429 B1
A robot may access a user device to determine or identify information about a user, and the robot may be configured to tailor a personality for interaction with the user based on the identified information. A robot may further receive data associated with the user to identify the user, such as using speech or face recognition. The robot may provide a personalized interaction or response to the user based on the determined information of the user. In some examples, a robot’s personality or personalization can be transferred from one robot to another robot, or information stored on one robot can be shared with another robot over the cloud.
