A robot went out of control at the China Hi-Tech Fair 2016 in Shenzhen on Thursday, smashing a glass window and injuring a visitor. The robot that went violent is named “Fatty” and is designed for household use.
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Madeline Gannon has a pretty clear discourse about the goal of her research and although she tends to blur the boundary between humans and robots, she clearly keeps them in the realm of objects.
Unfortunately, the same can not be said about the description under the video. Clearly Pier 9 is making it sound ridiculous by anthropomorphizing Mimus.
Mimus is a giant industrial robot that’s curious about the world around her. Mimus sees the world differently than us – she uses sensors embedded in the ceiling above to see everyone around her simultaneously. Mimus can react and move quickly around her space to follow your actions and try to decipher your body language.
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Testing a balancing humanoid by kicking it… then smiling.
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Security Robot Knocks Toddler To The Ground Then Runs Him Over At Stanford Shopping Center
A Palo Alto toddler was injured last Thursday after his parents claim a security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center knocked him over and then proceeded to run him over
Robots using this technology are ideally suited for naturally compliant and life-like interaction with people. When tele-operated, the low friction and lack of play allow the transmission to faithfully transmit contact forces to the operator, providing a high-fidelity remote sense of touch.
Hybrid hydrostatic transmission enables robots with human-like grace and precision
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Knowing these kind of robots have killed people before makes this a lot more interesting to watch.
The researchers—from ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Osaka University, Ryukoku University, and Tokai University, in Japan—patrolled a public shopping complex in Osaka with a remotely operated Robovie 2. Whenever somebody obstructed the robot’s path, it would politely ask the human to step aside. If the human didn’t listen, the robot moved in the opposite direction.
Over the course of the study, researchers found that children were sometimes all too eager to give the robot a hard time. Particularly when in packs and unsupervised, the youngsters would intentionally block Robovie’s way.
The tots’ behavior often escalated, and sometimes they’d get violent, hitting and kicking Robovie. They also engaged in verbal abuse, calling the robot “bad words.”
Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/children-beating-up-robot
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
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