robotic and design

I wanted to confront those two images because there an interesting question about the robot and the design. The reference was from the begining the human shape and recnt research are turning to the zoomorph style. As always the fonction make the design. For this reason human shape will probably be abandoned. The reason is humans are building robots to replace human workers, who were never considered as men but machines. In the first video, robot replace the bride, this reminds us the status of women as house wife, old style. Cooking, cleaning,washing, a perfect robot for macho men. The elegance and the fragility of is far from this fake bride.
In the second video, we have a fascinating movement, reminds us why we stay in front of an aquarium, looking at the fish movement. Looking even at industrial robot is also hypnotic.It's an open design, a fantastic bestiary, directly conected to our imagination.

Motoman robot Okonomiyaki maker

This robot is a showing an interesting point. Okonomiyaki is a moment of pleasure and social relation communication trought selfcooking. Making Okonomiyaki by robot is cutting this relation between two people or a community like familly. Robotization is concerning the world of hard work or human assistance. This one is deprive human of pleasure. The pleasure and food is very well connect in our brain, it is very negative to cut it off. In this case I considere Okonomiyaki robot as a bad robot. How a new and young couple could see if they match if someone is making Okonomiyaki for them?

man-machine

Beyond the performance of flying man, the shape is really nice if you consider it as a single form of life.

Simple life

No need to say more, Lowtech the concept ;-)

HONDA ROBOT ASIMO CONTROL ATR SHIMAZU

My favorite company for robots is Honda for many years. Following their adventure in robotics is like being connect with a powerfull vision of the future. In the same time I don't believe in humanoid form of robot. Controlling a robot with human mind could be also observe from the point of view of the robot. This could be a way for robot to examine the fonctions and the structure of the human brain. Like sports beginners robot is following the exercice. Imagine if the robot was teasing the man, could we understand.

gynoïd

More men will Be confused. Japan has demographic problem for many years, is it serious to make has perfect girlfriend for otaku and other unsocial men' s population.

The end of the wheel

super size cockroach could be faster than a sport car for example and could keep running in different environnements. Legs for robots can also become arms. Wheel was the fondation of the human civilization because we needed to move quickly to communicate. Speed communication today does not need to. In few years the car will be out like many individuals systemes. A global system is under construction, if the wheel disappears, the human civilization could follow.

Trbute to Maywa Denki

Maywa Denki is a japanese company founded by Nobumichi Tosa whose mixing robots and music. As japanese way they work for products even if they have a real artistict vision of their work. It's seems just toys or funny and stupid installations but it's because their vision is light not heavy.
Hope you'll enjoy it.

electric world

Electricity is probably the energy of this century. The problem is : " If we can or not use it naturaly through the solar panels regarding the carbon's pollution". The biggest revolution might be the electric car, no because of the energy itself but the noise. Electric car is suppose to be silent. Can you imagin highways without noise, city quiet as a peacefull landscape. Sometimes I'm listening at the city voice at night. You know the big city is alive when you ear the continius noise of the streets. Electricity could change our perception of our urban environnement.

Ombre-nouvelle

Bonjour à tous, je mets en ligne ma première nouvelle. Elle est le sujet de mon futur court métrage.
http://www.luxereau.com/biblio/ombre.pdf

Sorry for foreigners friends this first novel is in french. If someone feel translating he is welcome.

Two ways to synchronise.

To be synchronise is the first step for primitive society and evolution. I'm just wondering if "Kick the robot " is not a tendancy, remember Big dog.

This modular robot from the University of Pennsylvania that can reassemble itself after being kicked into pieces.


robot fish organise themselves

Before posthuman

Before posthuman, there will be a period of cooperation between human and robot. As the 80's for video games we have to say thank you to military developpements. If we considere the necessity of eyes for robots moving in human environnement, camera is the simplest way. Military robots are developing this vision but there's more interesting question " What's the future of making a movie ?" When you can be free of analogic technology. If you could have a digital camera directly on your eye, a drone recording in 3d space . On youtube today people are looking to others through mobile movies recorded, not fictions. Reality is becoming the new fiction, people are recording their life as a fiction. When you record images with the new technologies, no need to have a team, you're the selfshooter. There's also the question "recording for who", a public or the web itself. When I say we are the eyes of robots, I feel like the dog for blind person. We'll need more and more robots to work, to assist for us but will robots need human at last.

The future will be soft and low

For few years I believed in soft cover for compters, home comptuters do not need hard cover. It only need to care of dust and liquid like "Scotchgard", soft cover could refresh it with out fan or liquid system. I'm so happy to see this concept car because it's hopening a new way. This is also going with e-paper like sony, HP or LG screens.
If you believe in a softer world and gentle technology, there one point also interesting this slow design like the slow car designed by Jurgen Bey

little dog

A smaller version of my favorite robot Big dog.

first robot-human theatre production

Yes Osaka is the best place for people who are looking for new robots.
A 20 minute production by playwright Oriza Hirata at Japan's Osaka University Hirata is also a visiting professor at the and was performed for the media ahead of a possible full-scale public run in the next year or so. Hirata and the rest of the project team wrote special software that lets the robots move and deliver the right lines.
In the play, the robot is complaining that it has been forced into boring and demeaning jobs and enters into a discussion with the humans about its role in their lives.

This event shows how human is trying to integrate robot in all ways of creations. Do robot have a feelings or imagination and can it be translate in human language. For me the best performance by a robot is when I see the perfect gesture repeated again and again like monk, I feel something spiritual in it, something beyond human condition.

Usefull robot

Sometimes when I make research for robot's news , I'm wondering about the real purpose of their utility. Robot has a fonction, replace human for hard work, " robota" in the biginning. All the compagnies are showing them playing football, playing violin and other useless demonstration. This video is for me one of the most ridiculous. Of course I understand the technological target but sometimes I'm wondering if labo teams are not working for circus of the future.

The shadow

First test for my short movie " The shadow". Cornelius capsule travelling -7 '. From now I'll show the work in progress of this project.

Robo Q

RoboQ will be the smallest robot on the market. Basic fonctions like find its way out of a maze and dodge unexpected obstacles. The price also will be very attractive only Y3,500. The Robo Japan 2008 showned more than a 1000 robots.
For pictures

Ashley Wood

Ashley Wood is one of my favorite illustrators. If you like robots, oil painting and good illustrations, you'll enjoy his artwork. No need to say but also lovelies pin-ups. He is also well known for "Popbot".

Dance and computing

A tendancy in dance world today is to find a new way for non human body mouvement and the relation between dancer and technology. The body become a part of the captation system or a part of the dialogue between machine and dance space. The point is " Can the spectator understand a non human interpretation of the sound or silence ? " Do we have connection with a non soul performer ( the machine ) ? Is the dancer the emotional part of just becoming an interface. New technologies in dance performing is very interesting if you consider pain, tiredness as a human vocabulary in performing what is out of computer system.