Impersonate a self-driving car and experience how complicated that problem is.
(Probably also the best use of VR I’ve ever seen so far.)
Tag: robots
Sex robot sent for repairs after being molested at tech fair – BBC Three
Sex robot sent for repairs after being molested at tech fair – BBC Three
Or what will be known as “Ars Electronica’s problem with the representation of women”.
No one can tell if this is a robot or human
No one can tell if this is a robot or human
Game Conference attendees are easily fooled. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. And calling an Android “Cyberlife” should be a contract termination clause for any Marketing employee.
Robot slurs for humans
« It’s much sexier to call something a robot than call something a dishwasher »
This nuance is important, because “robot” is a powerful word. It is at once something that makes people uncomfortable (killer robots, job-stealing robots, etc.) and that makes them feel nice (Kuri the extremely endearing companion robot). “The word robot generates a lot of attention and fascination and sometimes fear,” says Darling. “You can use it to get people’s attention. I mean, it’s much sexier to call something a robot than call something a dishwasher.”
“After the robots arrived and took over some of our work, we have treated it like a brother”
Funeral robot can neither express or feel respect
Pepper the robot can perform funerary rites, but it shouldn’t.
It’s meant to help bring down the costs of funerary services in Japan, where (as elsewhere) they can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. But this is just a bad, dumb idea.
It’s a bad idea to introduce autonomy, or any machine really, into a situation that fundamentally calls for respect and sympathy, because machines have neither.
Don’t inappropriately touch a robot co-worker
Rules of robot human workplace interaction by Emily Dreyfuss.
The less experienced you are, the less freedom the robot gives you
Watch out for the Tinder bots
