Once again we’ve managed to create a robot that we’ll never be able to evade.
(h/t IEEE Spectrum)
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These bots be buggin’!
While other roboticists are creating replicant sea snakes, MIT researchers appear to be making robot pin worms.
Surprisingly, when students saw the robot make the hand and body gestures associated with distrust, they later made decisions in the token game that suggested they didn’t trust the robot.
Not trusting a robot isn’t surprising, it’s just common sense.
(via the New York Times)
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IS THAT A ROBOT VELOCIRAPTOR YOU’RE BUILDING THERE?
The MIT Media Lab came this close to creating that cybernetic teddy bear from A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Who Knew?
Anyone remember MIT’s expressive robot Kismet? Now don’t get me wrong, this little bot from the 1990s did help expand our understanding of facial expression, non-verbal communication and emotional response, but they couldn’t have made it any more creepy looking if they tried. Sort of like a half-decomposed cyborg gremlin, if you ask me. If you’re interested, Cynthia Breazeal discussed her work on Kismet at TED recently.
The robots are now taking over origami. Where will it end?
The Thruthiness About Robots
You have to love Stephen Colbert, especially when he’s speaking truth to power. During his interview with Missy Cummings, Navy fighter pilot and MIT robot builder:
We have been warned by documentaries like 2001: A Space Odyssey that the robots will rise up against us
Ready for Mutant Robots?
Researchers at MIT are developing a prototype robot to help monitor nuclear power stations for dangerous cracks in underground pipes that could cause serious problems. This would obviously be a real benefit to everyone to have a way of inspecting such sensitive equipment in dangerous and unreachable areas without putting people in any danger. I wonder, though, has anyone thought of the consequences of having robots exposed to high levels of radiation for long periods of time? I mean, no one wants to face some kind of mutant robot with superpowers, do they?
