Marketing confusion

This video is confusing me, what's the fact for the presence of fanta into this demonstration.No need to have the cans, is it because the robotic ingenieers are drinking Fanta? Is Fanta a sponsor of ABB or ... Robots are drinkings Fanta?
The message is at first " We are making the most precise and fast robots" and becoming " Fanta is the drink of the future"

This is the end

One more time, robot is suppose to help people but it seems also less human fonction is good for robot invasion. Will we be lazy, more and more until we could not survive by ourself.The posthuman could begin like that, with a regressive form of life. First step is " Why walking when a robot can do it for you? "

Leonardo's lion brought to life

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.

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.

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.

Sega Toys robot Ema

If you believe in romance between a human and a machine, this robot will be your first date with a female shape , a ginoïde. If you turn your mind why would it be with a fake girlfriend. More interesting would be to discover a new form of love, a new way of emotional relation. This robot also have a baby size, must be twisted to fall in love, no ?

LittleDog

"I want one !"

Jellyfish robot

Always funny to see one of your creation becoming real. When I created Callme, people were wondering if it could be possible. The answer is "YES". Zoomorphic robot form seems to be a main research for a very near future.

Big dog

This robot is maybe one of the most scary creature. I love it because of the shape and the noise completely out of soft design. It's like a nightmare. The interesting fact is the creators did not try to make it similar as a dog, no head, no tail, no stupid nickname.
If you consider robot with out human point of view may be this one is vision of a possible future.

Astro boy

In 1951, Osamu Tezuka created Astro Boy. Few years ago I met Honda's chief engineer of robotic departement who explained me why they created Asimo at first. Mr Honda wanted a friendly robot like Astro Boy in the 70's. In a room there was the manga collection of Astro boy ( mighty Atom ). The engineers had to read it and copy the concept, all were car engineers and became robotic engineers because of the project. I believe many people like me became robot's fans because of it.
The funny thing is when I asked the chief engineer if Asimo was an homage to Asimov, he asked me "Who is Asimov ?"

Coming soon : Astro boy, CG-animated movie, 2009

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

Before sex there is tenderness,thank's Wow wee !

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

Robot design

Nothing new in robot's design.

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.

Robot for which purpose

If robots are becoming a part of our life in a very near future. What will be the purpose, labor, entertainer and beyond mecanic shape is there a robotic life form ?
Is humanoide shape a good solution or just a very short vision of the real posthuman world.
I do not believe in this solution, the global robotisation is on the way. No more labor strike, no more pain for old worker's body. Robots will develop their own shape, far from human shape.