Check out this group on Vimeo to see some videos featured in a Robot Film Festival held in New York City on July 16th and 17th, 2011
The annual festival doesn’t just aim to showcase awesome robots, it also aims to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration by providing an opportunity for researchers to translate their work to the general population and help explore the ethical and sociological issues everyday robots could have on society
Image: Olishaw
According to writer, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark, being a cyborg is just part of human nature
Generally, the term cyborg refers to a biological being whose capabilities have been enhanced by or are dependent on a machine.
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Watch a clip from Tokyo’s 3D Expo
Nobuhiro Takahashi and his team at the University of Electro Communications in Tokyo have created a huggable robot. The ¨Sense-Roid¨ is shaped like a human torso that is embedded with pressure sensors. The robot is capable of reciprocating a human’s hug with the help of air compressors by being connected to a jacket that is worn by the human user.
The Multimodal Brain Orchestra
Visual art, music and dance allow people to express their emotional experiences and put them on display for others. By using their bodies people produce masterpiece paintings, play glorious symphonies or put on amazing dance recitals but what would happen if we took our bodies out of the equation? This is what the Multimodal Brain Orchestra created by the Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS) group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona wanted to investigate.
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Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan and his twin robot
When robots become too real, our approval takes a plunge into ¨The Uncanny Valley¨
Coined by robotics professor Masahiro Mori, ¨The Uncanny Valley¨ is a phenomenon that describes our aversion to robots and or artificial beings after they reach a certain level of human likeness. Many people such as Sigmund Freud and Ernst Jentsch have explored the concept of ¨the uncanny¨
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The 4th edition of the Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology 2 week summer school
Check out the programme organized by SPECS, the Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems Group of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
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