dimanche 24 février 2008

Robot of my dreams

Of course, this reminds us Philip K. Dick
Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positions, "Sleep Waking" acts as a way to "play-back" dreams. Through this piece we hope to investigate one of the possible human-robot relationships.
Fernando Orellana

samedi 23 février 2008

my doctor is a robot

A very important part of robotic for me is concerning the medical part, surgery especially. When I was making some research for Electrumcorpus, I had interview with differents surgeons. One was very interesting for me because I was developping tools for the robot he was working with on heart operations. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves cutting of a body. Before the robot, surgeons used to say " Great surgeon, great scare", now a small hole is enough, thank's to the robot and it's non ego. Human created the machine, the machine is repairing the human. Maybe it is a moment of real conversation between two types of machines in a way. The more we accept the fact of depending on robots, the more flesh will just be consider as a past structure. I believe we are very close to the step, not only repairing but definitively replacing human physical fonctions to achieve humanoid vision.

mercredi 13 février 2008

Love and Sex with Robots


From the "L'Ève future" by Villiers de L'Isle Adam, robot is a projection of man's fantaisy, control the partner and become the master of a sexual slave. No feeling, no dialogue only childish desire, animated toys for adults. Robot as an object of desire is also the connection between flesh and machine, a new step to the posthuman like the vision of Jean michel Truong . If the artificial intelligence was the master and started to make human depending, love and sex not for the future of humanity but the begining of the robotic chaos. Thinking about social laws controling the relation between human and robot make me think a about loosing the control on a natural situation. Artificial sexuality means artificial life and artificial life does not need a weack stucture like human body.
Welcome to the next step of evolution.
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Interview with David Levy
Jean Michel truong on line

lundi 11 février 2008

Robot design

Nothing new in robot's design.










samedi 9 février 2008

Final frontier

The web is a strange time machine, can be considered like a universal memory. Forgotten is a human power in a way when I see this kind of strange crossover. Words can give you a feeling even a nostalgic image of a forgotten past but a web can be like a pornographic image, raw with no seduction just the fact with out mystery. Sometimes it's better to leave the past in the pandora's box. A simple keyword can distroy a nice memory like when your brain is showing you a fake image of an old TV serie, just a feeeling of a perfect past.

dimanche 3 février 2008

Robot is human best friend ;-)

When I make research on robots, I mostely I found military development. It's reminds me the three Laws of Robotics:
  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
It's good to know and remember for a better future.