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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: December 2011
Europe’s Integrative Technology
Robots for stroke patients and more… The video above features the LOPES (Lower Extremity-Powered ExoSkeleton) developed by Dr. ir Herman van der Kooij and his team at the University of Twente, Netherlands to assist stroke patients who are learning how … Continue reading
Meet the Mask-bot
it’s more than just a pretty face… At first glance it’s a generic plastic mask fixed in front of a projector. Switch it on and you’re looking at the most realistic ¨talking head¨ yet. Researchers from the Institute of Cognitive … Continue reading
Robot Companions for Citizens
An introduction to one of the FET Flagships The video above was presented by the Robot Companion for Citizens Flagship Initiative at a conference in Warsaw at the end of November. Robot Companions for Citizens is currently one of 6 … Continue reading
Man’s (Mechanical) Best Friend
From canine companions to cleaning machines, robots are seeing all kinds of new applications A robotic seeing eye dog has recently been developed by Japan’s manufacturing company NSK. A recent article makes the point that although this seeing eye dog … Continue reading
Posted in Robots and Society
Tagged Big Dog, NSK, Robot Companions, Robotics, seeing eye dog
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A Robot’s Bedside Manner
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology discuss their research on a robot’s touch. How can we make robots safe? How can we make them perform their tasks effectively? Although these are among the most critical questions today’s robot engineers … Continue reading
Robotics Faces the Law
Research bodies around the globe are making an effort to draft laws governing the development of robots as they become increasingly complex and ingrained in our societies. In September of 2010, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences
Posted in Ethics, Robots and Society, Uncategorized
Tagged AHRC, EPSRC, FET Flagships, Paolo Dario, Robot Companions for Citizens, Robotics Laws
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Exploring the Softer Side of Things
Why soft robots are all the rage Squids, snails and other invertebrates can do things that animals with hard skeletons can’t. For example they can squeeze through small cracks and move across rough terrain. Likewise, soft-bodied robots have some important … Continue reading
FET Flagships Pilots Midterm Conference
Held November 24-25 at the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Warsaw. The 6 FET Flagships showed off their stuff at the midterm conference, involving about 250 European scientists and policy makers, who assessed the progress made by … Continue reading
Welcome to a Robot-Lover’s Paradise
Robot Land is scheduled to open in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea South Korea’s got robots covered; from classrooms to the Northern border, the nation’s using robots to support humans just about anywhere. But their robots aren’t all work … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Robots and Society, Robots Around the World
Tagged Incheon, Robot Companions, Robot Culture, Robot Land, Seoul, South Korea
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