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Kes: What is it about small robots and other engineered objects that just makes you love them?
This story
https://scitechdaily.com/mits-mini-satellite-maker/
makes me think of
this post
https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/361473.html
that I made about a small poetry-writing satellite that shows up in a John Varley story.
This story
https://scitechdaily.com/mits-mini-satellite-maker/
makes me think of
this post
https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/361473.html
that I made about a small poetry-writing satellite that shows up in a John Varley story.
In discussing access to basic healthcare and services, the issue often arises of how meal preparation can be a serious barrier to healthy eating for PWD, and personal care assistants don't always respect or are capable of following diet restrictions.
Someone just posted this link to Oliver, the cooking robot
https://olivercooks.com/
The price range mentioned was between $500-$1000, but that is a tiny fraction of what it costs to have personal care assistants prepare meals.
My foodie housemate would probably sabortage a cooking robot if anyone dared bring one home, and Alexx would probably pout if I tried to replace his male birdie tendencies to bring me food with a robot (I think I already accidentally began to call him "Alexa" once or twice...).
Someone just posted this link to Oliver, the cooking robot
https://olivercooks.com/
The price range mentioned was between $500-$1000, but that is a tiny fraction of what it costs to have personal care assistants prepare meals.
My foodie housemate would probably sabortage a cooking robot if anyone dared bring one home, and Alexx would probably pout if I tried to replace his male birdie tendencies to bring me food with a robot (I think I already accidentally began to call him "Alexa" once or twice...).
Psychology and Lego robots
Jun. 24th, 2010 08:59 amKes: Some interesting points about how easy it is to get variability from programming even a single rule into the robots
The scientific method - lego robots edition
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/06/the_scientific_metho.html
The scientific method - lego robots edition
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/06/the_scientific_metho.html
1. For the Win (2010) by Cory Doctorow
http://craphound.com/ftw/download/
2. From Bricks to Brains:
The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots
by Michael Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (AU Press, 2010)
Available as a paperback or a PDF ebook
http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120175
About the Book
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms
robots.
Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis
on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing
simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an agent’s environment. Even simple
agents, such as LEGO robots, are capable of exhibiting complex behaviour when they can sense and affect the world around them.
http://craphound.com/ftw/download/
2. From Bricks to Brains:
The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots
by Michael Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (AU Press, 2010)
Available as a paperback or a PDF ebook
http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120175
About the Book
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms
robots.
Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis
on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing
simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an agent’s environment. Even simple
agents, such as LEGO robots, are capable of exhibiting complex behaviour when they can sense and affect the world around them.
Thursday, March 4, 2010 from 5-7 PM |
Building 4-231
Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology
Ian Condry and Cynthia Brazeal
Ian Condry, Associate Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies and Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, will discuss the prevalence
of giant robots in anime (Japanese animated films and TV shows). From the sixties to the present, robot or "mecha" anime has evolved in ways that reflect
changing business models and maturing audiences, as can be seen in titles like Astro Boy, Gundam, Macross, and Evangelion. How can we better understand
the emergence of anime as a global media phenomenon through the example of robot anime? What does this suggest about our transmedia future?
Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and founder/director of the Lab's Personal Robots Group, will discuss how science fiction has
influenced the development of real robotic systems, both in research laboratories and corporations all over the world. She will explore of how science
fiction has shaped ideas of the relationship and role of robots in human society, how the existence of such robots is feeding back into science fiction
narratives, and how we might experience transmedia properties in the future using robotic technologies.
Building 4-231
Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology
Ian Condry and Cynthia Brazeal
Ian Condry, Associate Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies and Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, will discuss the prevalence
of giant robots in anime (Japanese animated films and TV shows). From the sixties to the present, robot or "mecha" anime has evolved in ways that reflect
changing business models and maturing audiences, as can be seen in titles like Astro Boy, Gundam, Macross, and Evangelion. How can we better understand
the emergence of anime as a global media phenomenon through the example of robot anime? What does this suggest about our transmedia future?
Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and founder/director of the Lab's Personal Robots Group, will discuss how science fiction has
influenced the development of real robotic systems, both in research laboratories and corporations all over the world. She will explore of how science
fiction has shaped ideas of the relationship and role of robots in human society, how the existence of such robots is feeding back into science fiction
narratives, and how we might experience transmedia properties in the future using robotic technologies.
