"Development of a humanoid #Robot prototype, HRP-5P, capable of heavy labor": https://phys.org/news/2018-11-humanoid-robot-prototype-hrp-5p-capable.html
"Development of a humanoid #Robot prototype, HRP-5P, capable of heavy labor": https://phys.org/news/2018-11-humanoid-robot-prototype-hrp-5p-capable.html
"Neri Oxman's swarm of Fiberbots autonomously build architectural structures":
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/05/neri-oxman-fiberbots-mediated-matter-lab-mit-architectural-structures/
Festo – BionicWheelBot:
There is a reason why all ancient traditions talk about ethics, virtues and self-cultivation.
1st principle of the Technetronic Society: "Something ought to be done because it is technically possible to do it."
E.g: If it is possible to build nuclear weapons, they must be built even if they might destroy us all.2nd principle: "Maximal efficiency & output over all else".
The objective metrics that run our modern societies are essentially only concerned with *quantities*: (More GDP, Growth, Consumption, Production = Better). Few raise the question of *quality*, or what the increase in quantity is good for ~ leading to imbalances in the system.
"50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are Ready to Go on Strike Over Fears of Robots Taking Their Jobs": https://gizmodo.com/50-000-las-vegas-workers-are-ready-to-go-on-strike-over-1826474028
Translation: In a city that is rapidly turning into a desert, the owners have weaponised automation against its already struggling citizens & call it "progress".
Elevation - "how drones will change cities" - a short documentary by @Dezeen
Fauxtomation - "When workers get rendered invisible to maintain illusion machines & systems smarter than they actually are" (coined by @astradisastra).
Walmart's Future Workforce: Robots and Freelancers:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/04/walmarts-future-workforce-robots-and-freelancers/557063/ "Walmart is raising wages, but its plans to use more gig labor and automation put workers at a disadvantage". #Robot #Politics #Ethics
Leading AI researchers threaten Korean university with boycott over its work on ‘killer robots’: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/4/17196818/ai-boycot-killer-robots-kaist-university-hanwha and https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/05/killer-robots-south-korea-university-boycott-artifical-intelligence-hanwha #ML #Robot #Ethics #Military
"Visual Programming for Robots" - talk by Johannes Braumann:
"Intuitive Robotics" - talk by Nick Cote:
"The Future of Work" - talk by Bill O’Connor:
Digital construction method combines architecture with robotics and craftsmanship:
Vicious Cycle - a short animation featuring a group of little helpless robots performing a range of repetitive functions. by Michael Marczewski: https://vimeo.com/198802302
Sex #Robot Reproduction
This robot can bend and weld wire to make molds for curved concrete walls:
http://gramaziokohler.arch.ethz.ch/web/e/forschung/324.html
Line-us: The little #Robot drawing arm: https://www.line-us.com/