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Robot Resemblance
Little Island of Japan is a company that comes up with clone robots, and to date their efforts with robotic dolls have managed to bear a close resemblance to celebrities as well as politicians, being...
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Robot Teachers
Some of the key themes of the recent Robots and Avatars Lunch Debates on Artificial Intelligence and Behaviours and Ethics concern the relativity of humans to robots and avatars. We have been asking,...
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Robonaut Tweets
We have already blogged about Robotars – humanoid robots that are controlled virtually from a remote location – and NASA’s efforts in this field are developing further with their Robonaut 2. At the...
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Outrace – Robots in Trafalgar Square
Credit: Outrace This year as part of London Design Festival the public were invited to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi’s production line. OUTRACE is an installation by Clemens...
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Virtual/Physical Play Robot
Here is an intresting article from Gizmag about The Playtime Computing System developed by MIT Media Laboratory’s Personal Robots Group. The system blends robotic and virtual interfaces and is...
View ArticleCynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
This great TED talk Cynthia Breazeal expands further on one of the recurring themes of Robots and Avatars – the increase in personal and domestic use robots and the implications this may have for young...
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EXHIBITION: Robots & Avatars, our colleagues & playmates of the future
Michael Takeo Magruder Join us in a near future where robots, avatars and telepresence form part of an exciting new reality. From pervasive networked gaming to robots that teach, touch, care or scare,...
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‘America’s mindless killer robots must be stopped’ by Noel Sharkey
Read Robots and Avatars’ project champion Noel Sharkey‘s opinion column on the mindless use of robots in war in this week edition of the Guardian (3 December 2012). ‘The rational approach to the...
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‘The rise of the robot’ on BBC Business Daily
‘The rise of the robot’ explored in BBC Business News / Business Daily on 31 Dec 2012. “Justin Rowlatt meets Ghislaine Boddington, creative director of body>data>space, a company which...
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Anybots – Work Anywhere
One of the central questions of Robots and Avatars is to ask what it would be like to collaborate with a robot in the workplace? Further, we are exploring what the implications of this would be for how...
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