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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?
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Flywalk
A new way to get meaningful info from minute creatures Although not known for its beauty or its brains, the common fruit fly has won the devotion of scientists around the world thanks to its many traits that make it … Continue reading
Posted in Biology
Tagged Drosophila melanogaster, Fruit fly, Paul Verschure, SPECS, The Flywalk, Vinegar fly, Zenon Mathews
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Robots with Green Thumbs
Could blending living and artificial systems help make agriculture more eco-friendly? What started out as an undergraduate summer project at the Distributed Robotics Lab (DRL), part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, has now turned into … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Robots and Research, Robots and Society
Tagged Artificial and Living Systems, CSAIL, DRL, MIT, Robot Companions, Robotic Garden
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BrainGate2
¨Turning thought into action¨ The Robotic arm moves a thermos filled with coffee towards Cathy Hutchinson’s mouth while she imagines carrying out this same motion with the very hand she has been unable to move for the past fifteen years.
Robots Get People Walking
Claire Lomas walks the London marathon with the help of a robotic suit In 2007, accomplished equestrian, Claire Lomas, was told that she would never walk again after a riding accident left her paralysed from the waist down. 5 years … Continue reading
Posted in Robots and Research, Robots and Society
Tagged Claire Lomas, exoskeleton, John Dawson-Ellis, London marathon, ReWalk, robotic suits
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The Brain, Music and Artificial Intelligence
The SPECS lab puts their stuff on display in Barcelona! The Spanish Society of Neuroscience, has declared 2012 Neuroscience Year in Spain. The year-long celebration serves as a way to bring neuroscience to the public and promote the dissemination of … Continue reading
What’s in Your Magic Bag?
Researchers at MIT envision a bag of tiny machines that can assemble into just about anything… Remember that scene in the 1964 Mary Poppins film where Julie Andrews manages to retrieve everything from plants to coat hangers out of her … Continue reading
Robots Monitor Prisons
A South Korean effort to reduce stress among corrections officers Prison guards often face high levels of stress due to under staffing, overtime and rotating shift work associated with their work. This often results in burnout, health problems, high turnover … Continue reading
Posted in Robots and Society
Tagged Asian Forum for Correction, Robot Companions, Robot prison guards, South Korea
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Surveillance Bots
Jumping and rolling to places we can’t get to This little contraption probably won’t be found at the beach and it’s not about to bite anyone’s toes either. In fact, all it really wants to do is take a look … Continue reading
Robots Get Cultural
Using machines to study social behaviour How does culture emerge in human societies and those of other social animals? To tackle this question, a study funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) lead by the University … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Robots and Research, Robots and Society
Tagged Emergence of culture, EPSRC, Human Culture, Leeds Metropolitan University, Robot Companions, Robot Culture, University of Abertay Dundee, UNiversity of Bristol, University of Exeter, University of Manchester, University of Warwick
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