Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: AI/Robotics
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From the io9 posthuman newsfeed is a brief article looking a this form of muscle/nerve prosthetic. I’m constantly amazed by this kind of thing, and can’t imagine what it will look like in 10-15 years time. See Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell – Posthumanity – io9
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A couple of related articles about encoding ethics into software: Terminate: The Machine’s Guide to Ethics – Robots – io9 Remote-control warfare: Droning on | The Economist
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Interesting article over at Robots Teach Korean Students English – Robots – io9 on the deployment of 1000s of robot language teachers to assist in the learning of English in South Korean schools and pre-schools. I’m wondering why they’ve embedded this approach in a humanoid form, rather than through an animated avatar on the cellphone…
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You see this sort of thing in the overseas press from time to time (after all it seems to be obligatory to run a robot story every week or so), but it’s not often you see a robot healthcare story in the NZ context. See Robot to work at rest home.
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Interesting short interview on robots and creativity. See Teaching Robots To Be Human.
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I’m thinking it looks too much like ALF, but an interesting application in therapeutic robots for children. See Cuddly robot helps sick kids
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I thought this was very good – a virtual reality love story. See YouTube – World Builder See also YouTube – World Builder (high quality) Similar in some ways to Grek Pak’s Robot Stories.
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This looks interesting – really big robot fish being used as sensing devices. Shades of Stingray, perhaps? See Robot fish detects pollution – technology | Stuff.co.nz. For those of you who missed out on Stingray in your childhood, here’s a link to the TV show’s title sequence. (Always had a soft spot for ‘scifi’ submarine/underwater…
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See xkcd – A Webcomic – Parody Week: A Softer World.
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Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? over at Wired talks about different responses to creations that become more human like. Similar perhaps to the “Flesh Fair” in Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence?