As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
To Walmart executives, the Auto-C self-driving floor
scrubber is the future of retail automation — a multimillion-dollar bet
that advanced robots will optimize operations, cut costs and
revolutionize the American superstore.But to
the workers of Walmart Supercenter No. 937 in Marietta, Ga., the machine
has a different label: “Freddy,” named for a janitor the store let go
shortly before the Auto-C rolled to life.
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Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game
What better than to be punched in the googles by a robot you built yourself?
The Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori
More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, then a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, wrote an essay on how he envisioned people’s reactions to robots that looked and acted almost human. In particular, he hypothesized that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached, but failed to attain, a lifelike appearance. This descent into eeriness is known as the uncanny valley.
World’s first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff
The robo-doll interpreted snoring as a request it couldn’t understand, and thus woke guests continually through the night, asking them to rephrase.
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
A man waved a .22-caliber revolver at a Waymo [Google self-driving] vehicle.
‘Hi-tech robot’ at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit
And why did the robot look like a person would fit perfectly inside of it?
CIMON the ‘Flying Brain’ Has Arrived at the International Space Station | Digital Trends
He’s a friendly guy and he has this hard power-off button.
Robots Have a Diversity Problem – The New New – Medium
[…] not only are the majority of home robots designed with white plastic, but we also actually have a bias against the ones that are coated in black plastic.