Wednesday film: Perfume and Cynthia Breazeal at SXSW
I couldn’t choose, so you get a few minutes of a live performance by a Japanese electropop trio and then an hour-long talk from one of the most influential thinkers in consumer robotics today....
View ArticleRecently discovered: medical robobear, UX reading, fast ethnography, useful...
♦ WIRED has a story about this fuzzy bear robot developed at the MIT Media Lab for use with children in medical settings. They’re running a pilot study now. The video won’t embed, but you can watch it...
View ArticleEmotional robots and all the feels
With Ex Machina opening (it’s on my list for the weekend Seriously?? Not in wide release?? WTF??), Slate published an article about emotional robots — or at least, the emulation of human emotion by...
View ArticleWednesday films: Chef, phlebotomist, and dubstep robots
Three short videos for your Wednesday enjoyment! The first is a cute musical film (wait for the drop). Dubstep Dispute from Fluxel Media on Vimeo. The next two are recently released robotic news...
View ArticleWednesday film: The Last One
The main character of this short is the final survivor of his kind in the war between humans and robots. The film is nicely shot and touching, but I’m including it mainly because of the last line of...
View ArticleA few short thoughts
I thought that the solitude forced upon me by a broken leg might be a great opportunity to write. How wrong I was! I don’t know if it’s constant exhaustion fogging up the sharper edges of my intellect,...
View ArticleA is for android and ArcheAge
Wouldn’t you know it: just after I posted about ArcheAge last week, praising the female plate armor for not being revealing, I got the next set as a quest reward and presto! Metal bustier (with leather...
View ArticleRoadmap for personal robotic development
We’re on the cusp of robotic assistants appearing in home and office use; not just silent machines vacuuming our floors (or in my experience with the Roomba, getting stuck under our furniture) or in...
View ArticleJumping into the past for the future
I consider myself a writer, though the money I’ve made as one wouldn’t pay my mortgage for a month. The last couple weeks presented me with an existential crisis. Recovering from my broken leg yet not...
View ArticleRobots, MMORPGs, and the usual suspects
The MMORPG I play (sort-of, for now, that’s one of my alts above), ArcheAge, is offline for a couple days while they perform server balancing. If all goes well, on Saturday the game will return and...
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