For our readers who are wondering (or have at some stage wondered), when the first robotic sculptor mechanism was invented, Improbable cannot give a definitive answer, but can nevertheless point in the direction of this 1957 film about the UK based inventor George Macdonald Reid – who worked intensively (and single handedly) for an entire […]
Tag: Robotics
Another New Chinese Bionic Head
There are currently a number of research teams worldwide working towards the implementation of bionic heads and faces which can attempt to express human emotions, however “… most of them can not express continuous changing expressions effectively, and they just express limited pre-existing emotional state.” explain the developers of a new Chinese Bionic Head. Lun […]
Accent on/in roboticness
A recent study at the Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands, determined that in some cases, some people would prefer that service robots are not talkative [see: The agreeableness of robotic vacuum cleaners]. If they were to be, however, what kind of accent should they have? Dr. Elizabeth Broadbent and colleagues at the University […]
The agreeableness of robotic vacuum cleaners
What would be the ideal ‘personality’ for a robotic vacuum cleaner? This is a perplexing question, since at the time of writing robotic vacuum cleaners tend to have little or no personality to speak of. Nevertheless, despite (or perhaps because of) the challenges of future-gazing, it has recently been investigated by a research group from […]