Mythopoeika
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Adam Savage has fun finding a use for the Spot robot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Memorial_MuseumElektro survived the scrap pile and is currently the property of the Mansfield Memorial Museum
Cool. If they build a couple of vertical machines, we could watch robot ping pong or a single machine against a human.I'm not 100% certain that this machine qualifies as a robot, but it's great to watch.
The description: The Octo Bouncer - Arduino project with 120 FPS OpenCV image processing and smooth stepper motor moves. The machine calculates the ball's 3D position from the image processing data and uses this information to control the orange ping pong ball.
I could watch this over & over.
I'm not 100% certain that this machine qualifies as a robot, but it's great to watch.
The description: The Octo Bouncer - Arduino project with 120 FPS OpenCV image processing and smooth stepper motor moves. The machine calculates the ball's 3D position from the image processing data and uses this information to control the orange ping pong ball.
I could watch this over & over.
Let's all hope that Skynet doesn't get control over these.US Navy robot submarine would be able to kill without human control
The US Navy is quietly developing armed robot submarines controlled by onboard artificial intelligence. The vessels could potentially kill without explicit human control.
The Office of Naval Research is carrying out the project, known as CLAWS, which it describes in budget documents as an autonomous undersea weapon system for clandestine use. CLAWS will “increase mission areas into kinetic effects”, say the documents – military-speak for destroying things.
In particular, CLAWS will equip robot submarines with sensors and algorithms to carry out complex missions on their own.
Paywalled report: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...-to-kill-without-human-control/#ixzz6GH2MuttX
More in the Daily Mail.
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In Wuhan, one of the hospital wards will be staffed by robots instead of people. Though I'm not sure they aren't just fancy moving vending machines.
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...rd-staffed-entirely-by-robots-opens-in-china/
Hello and welcome: Robot waiters to the rescue amid virus
You can always count on a robot for perfect timing.
When Shaosong Hu saw robotic waiters serving food in China last fall, he knew exactly what he wanted for his restaurant in the Dutch beachside town of Renesse. He just didn’t have a clue how useful they would prove.
The coronavirus pandemic has turned a whimsical idea into perhaps a window into a dystopian future where a human touch may make people cringe with fear, and a waiter clearing the table sends a customer tense with stress — only to be relieved by a soothing brush with plastic. ...
“They came in just ahead of that time,” said Hu’s daughter Leah, who also works at the restaurant, the Royal Palace.
Now, his two shiny white-and-red robots glide across the dining area’s floor where, once the restaurant reopens, they will be serving Chinese and Indonesian specialties like Babi Pangang and Char Siu ...
Their duties will include greeting customers, serving drinks and dishes and returning used glasses and crockery. It’s unclear whether diners will be expected to tip.
One thing the robots will certainly do is see that social distancing rules are respected. “We will use them to make sure the 1.5 meters (5 feet) we need during the corona crisis sticks,” Leah Hu said.
“I’ve had negative reactions,” she said, “such as saying it makes it impersonal.” But it may prove just what customers crave when Dutch restaurants are allowed to reopen on Monday as lockdown restrictions are further eased. ...
https://apnews.com/c3066c52255bd4de62a60ff758809855This restaurant in the Netherlands is adding robots to its staff.
FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/c3066c52255bd4de62a60ff758809855
then we'll need to implement robot rights laws so they can't be treated like slaves .. equal rights in the court rooms etc ... and history repeats itself ..
machines will eventually learn to ........ become more human .. and sometimes sarcastic, or funny, or grumpy, or excited, or sad etc etc
Actually we {androids} are already quite paranoidWe are only a few small steps away from actually having Marvin the Paranoid Android for real.
Dog-like robots now on sale for $75,000, with conditions
You can now buy one of those unnerving animal-like robots you might have seen on YouTube — so long as you don’t plan to use it to harm or intimidate anyone.
Boston Dynamics on Tuesday started selling its four-legged Spot robots online for just under $75,000 each.
The agile robots can walk, climb stairs and open doors. But people who buy them online must agree not to arm them or intentionally use them as weapons, among other conditions.
“Spot is an amazing robot, but is not certified safe for in-home use or intended for use near children or others who may not appreciate the hazards associated with its operation,” the terms and conditions state. ...
Boston Dynamics has been developing its dexterous robots through decades of military-funded research. The Waltham, Massachusetts, company is now finding commercial applications for them for the first time since it was founded in 1992. ...
“The marine park industry has had falling revenues for over a decade due to ethical concerns and the cost of live animals, yet the public hunger to learn about and experience these animals is still as strong as ever,”
But with a price tag of about NZ$40m (£20.8m) per dolphin, the biggest obstacle for the creators of the animatronic creatures is proving to potential clients that the robotic sea creatures will work out to be cheaper in the long run than the real thing.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic stalled construction, at least 30 aquariums were being built in China, Li Wang said, and at least one large Chinese corporation had committed to replacing real dolphins with robots.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic stalled construction, at least 30 aquariums were being built in China
Yeah... right.According to the article, they're aimed at Chinese aquariums & replacing live animals, rather than a military application: