[…] And she is going to live here with us at the NERVE center. […]
Videos
Robotics Soft-Tissue Injury Study
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
Working hard or hardly working?
Morning gym together
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…
A huggable robotic mall guard
It’s not about having a human presence, it’s about having an authoritative presence.
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When we put them in a shopping center, we actually found that people are excited about it. They look at him and they run towards him. And two things have come up: one is the robot-hug and two is the robot-selfie
Alcohol drinking robot companion
The Alcohol drinking Robot by, South Korean artist, Eunchan Park was invented to stop drinking alone.
“The secret of taste of alcohol totally depends on existence of partner”
The wake-up machine by Simone Giertz
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