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This blog explores the fields that embrace the development of an ecology of soft and sentient machines that will help and assist humans in the broadest possible sense to support and sustain our welfare.
You will find entries on biology, robotics, artificial intelligence, ecology, science-fiction, neuroscience... and many more that converge around questions like: what does it take to make our assisting machines sentient?
The blog is written by the Coordination Action initiative of the Future Emerging Technologies (FET) programme of the EU, named "Robot Companions for Citizens". Click here for more information on that initiative.
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
iCub
The famed European robot has made itself a home in laboratories around the globe iCub is a robot capable of interacting with the world much the way a small child does . It is used to look at how experience … Continue reading
Posted in Robots and Research, Robots Around the World, Uncategorized
Tagged Giulio Sandini, icub
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Biomechatronics ???
A fascinating field that allows for the revolutionary use of new materials Biomechatronics integrates biological elements into artificial devices. A dynamic is created where the biological element carries out a specific function to the system, while the artificial device promotes … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Robots and Research
Tagged Biomechatronics, smart material, swimming robot
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SKINformation
As the largest organ of the human body, our skin provides us with loads of valuable data Hot. Sharp. Rough. Wet. Our skin is capable of giving us this type of information about the objects and environment around us. As … Continue reading
Miniature Machines with Major Applications
Earth’s little critters give scientists big ideas Paolo Dario is a Professor of Biomedical Robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa who is heavily involved in the study of micro-machines for medical purposes. In coordination with 3 other European … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Robots and Health, Robots and Research
Tagged Paolo Dario, Surgical robots
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What Does it Mean to Be Human?
The Smithsonian Institute of Natural History wants to know! Click HERE to go to their website and read the opinions of people from all over the world. You can submit your own answer too.
Innorobo
Innovation robotic summit held in Lyon, France March 23-25, 2011 The innorobo summit featured the exhibit of more than 100 robots, 30 of which were on display for the first time ever in Europe. It included conferences on a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Robots and Research, Robots and Society
Tagged European robots, Innorobo
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Robot Becomes Living Fossil
Coelacanth robot used for education In 2001, Mitsubishi began the production of an artificial Coelacanth, an ancient species believed to be extinct until the 1930′s. The body of the artificial fish is partly made of silicone, plastic and elastic metal. … Continue reading
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Robot?
Our apprehension to artificial beings The term robot was originally used in Karel Čapek’s 1921 play RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots). However, the concept of a being or machine akin to today’s conception of a robot is something that goes back … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ethics, Robots and Society, Science Fiction, The History of Robotics
Tagged Frankenstein, Isaac Asimov, Robots, Science fiction
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The Future of Biomimetic Machines
Convergent Science Network’s Anna Mura and Team Win Best Exhibit at This Year’s FET11 Conference in Budapest, Hungary The exhibit featured demonstrations which displayed the potential of biomimetic systems to transform the way information and communication technologies are developed … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Events, Robots and Research
Tagged ECCEROBOT, neuroprosthetic, NIW, Octopus Project, RENACHIP, Scratchbot
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