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The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder - Ian Bogost - Technology - The Atlantic
"The New Aesthetic is an art movement obsessed with the otherness of computer vision and information processing. But Ian Bogost asks: why stop at the unfathomability of the computer's experience when there are airports, sandstone, koalas, climate, toaster pastries, kudzu, the International 505 racing dinghy, and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to contemplate?"

[Nice selection of quotes chosen and comment by @litherland below]

Yes.
Rather than wondering if alien beings exist in the cosmos, let's assume that they are all around us, everywhere, at all scales.
Why should a new aesthetic [be] interested only in the relationship between humans and computers, when so many other relationships exist just as much? Why stop with the computer, like Marinetti foolishly did with the race car?
Being withdraws from access. There is always something left in reserve, in a thing.

Cf. Derrida, e.g., “L'annihilation des restes, les cendres peuvent parfois en témoigner, rappelle un pacte et fait acte de mémoire.”
thinking  via:litherland  futuristmanifesto  filippomarinetti  thecreatorsproject  gregborenstein  timmorton  levibryant  grahamharman  brucesterling  aggregation  ontography  carpentry  dada  futurism  surprise  disruption  ubicomp  georgiatech  awarehome  michaelmateas  zacharypousman  marioromero  tableaumachine  robots  robotreadableworld  timoarnall  alienaesthetic  nataliabuckley  avant-garde  craftwork  craft  art  design  intentionality  jamesbridle  computing  computers  davidmberry  philosophy  technology  thenewaesthetic  newaesthetic  2012  ianbogost  ooo  object-orientedontology  objects 
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
"The “New Aesthetic” is a native product of modern network culture. It’s from London, but it was born digital, on the Internet. The New Aesthetic is a “theory object” and a “shareable concept.”

The New Aesthetic is “collectively intelligent.” It’s diffuse, crowdsourcey, and made of many small pieces loosely joined. It is rhizomatic, as the people at Rhizome would likely tell you. It’s open-sourced, and triumph-of-amateurs. It’s like its logo, a bright cluster of balloons tied to some huge, dark and lethal weight.

There are some good aspects to this modern situation, and there are some not so good ones."

"That’s the big problem, as I see it: the New Aesthetic is trying to hack a modern aesthetic, instead of thinking hard enough and working hard enough to build one. That’s the case so far, anyhow. No reason that the New Aesthetic has to stop where it stands at this moment, after such a promising start. I rather imagine it’s bound to do otherwise. Somebody somewhere will, anyhow."
machinevision  glitches  digitalaccumulation  walterbenjamin  socialmedia  bots  uncannyvalley  surveillance  turingtest  renderghosts  imagerecognition  imagery  beauty  cern  postmodernity  hereandnow  temporality  pixels  culturalagnosticism  london  theory  networkculture  theoryobjects  smallpieceslooselyjoined  collectiveintelligence  digitalage  digital  modernism  aesthetics  vision  robots  cubism  impressionism  history  artmovements  machine-readableworld  russelldavies  benterrett  siliconrounsabout  art  marcelduchamp  joannemcneil  jamesbridle  sxsw  brucesterling  2012  newaesthetic  crowdsourcing  rhizome  aaronstraupcope  thenewaesthetic  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
David Graeber, On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time [at SVA]
"The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort of redemptive future. Anthropologist and writer David Graeber asks, "How did this happen?" One reason is the replacement of what might be called poetic technologies with bureaucratic ones. Another is the terminal perturbations of capitalism, which is increasingly unable to envision any future at all. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department."
occupywallstreet  ows  anarchism  davidgraeber  alvintoffler  timothyleary  futurism  situationist  capitalism  collapse  economics  anthropology  robots  robotfactories  future  labor  efficiency  sva  self-governance  paperwork  decentralization  scifi  sciencefiction  humanrights  corruption  politics  policy  organization  2012  startrek  automation  technology  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Gardens and Zoos – Blog – BERG
"So, much simpler systems that people or pets can find places in our lives as companions. Legible motives, limited behaviours and agency can illicit response, empathy and engagement from us.

We think this is rich territory for design as the things around us start to acquire means of context-awareness, computation and connectivity.

As we move from making inert tools – that we are unequivocally the users of – to companions, with behaviours that animate them – we wonder whether we should go straight from this…

Ultimately we’re interested in the potential for new forms of companion species that extend us. A favourite project for us is Natalie Jeremijenko’s “Feral Robotic Dogs” – a fantastic example of legibility, seamful-ness and BASAAP…

We need to engage with the complexity and make it open up to us.

To make evident, seamful surfaces through which we can engage with puppy-smart things."
williamsburroughs  chrisheathcote  nataliejeremijenko  companionship  simplicity  context-awareness  artificialintelligence  ai  behavior  empathy  2012  interactiondesign  interaction  internetofthings  basaap  robots  future  berglondon  berg  mattjones  design  spimes  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
AU 2011: Otherlab's Saul Griffith, Part 1 - Pneubotics Yields Soft Robots on Vimeo
"At Autodesk University 2011, Saul Griffith, founder of Otherlab, discusses his pioneering work in Pneubotics. Otherlab is working on soft, fabric-based robots that are actuated by compressed air."

"At Autodesk University 2011, Saul Griffith, founder of Otherlab, talks about inventing and the type of follow-up required to see that invention go out into the world." [ http://vimeo.com/33131553 ]

"Part 3 of our video chat with Saul Griffith, co-founder of Otherlab, at Autodesk University 2011. Griffith answers questions about Theory vs. Making Stuff in education, advice for design students, and how to enable yourself to make truly unique things." [ http://vimeo.com/33131913 ]
design  tools  toolmaking  saulgriffith  education  projectbasedlearning  2011  core77  glvo  making  doing  learning  learningbydoing  advice  robots  invention  failure  howwework  howwelearn  pneubotics  otherlab 
december 2011 by robertogreco
The Technium: You Are a Robot
"Everywhere we look in pop culture today, some of the coolest expressions are created by humans imitating machines. Exhibit A would be the surging popularity of popping, tutting, and dub step dancing. You've seen these dancers on YouTube: the best of them look exactly like robots dancing, with the mechanical stutter of today's crude robots trying to move like humans. Except the imitators robotically dance better than any robot could -- so far."
kevinkelly  robots  trends  technology  jaronlanier  computers  computing  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
growbot Garden
"A large part of our mission is to facilitate a discussion between technologists and growers so that each can learn from one another. In order for this conversation to happen, it’s important for our participants to feel like they have enough of an understanding of robotics basics that they can thoroughly imagine solutions for their small farm. Simple DIY teaching tools allow illustration of and interaction with these concepts. The sensor station below, for example, indicates how sensors can read moisture, light, and proximity, all of which have relevance to small-scale, organic farmers and their day-to-day needs."
technology  robots  research  tech  via:russelldavies  diy  growbotgarden  gardening  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus, Trust - we make money not art
"What should a robot smell like? Kevin Grennan has augmented three existing industrial robots with 'sweat glands'. Each uses a specific property of human sub-conscious behaviour in response to a chemical stimulus: one makes humans about to undergo surgery more trustful, another one makes women working in production line more focused and the third one is a bomb disposal robot that emits the smell of fear.<br />
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The contrast between the physical anti-anthropomorphic nature of the machines and the olfactory anthropomorphism highlights the absurd nature of the trickery at play in all anthropomorphism…<br />
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The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus, Trust also involved demonstrating the limits of anthropomorphism. The video of the android's birthday shows a lovely android attempting to recreate the most straightforward moment of a birthday celebration: blowing the candles of the birthday cake…"
kevingrennan  robots  design  anthropomorphism  androids  behavior  ai  senses  smell  uncannyvalley  2011  wmmna  fear  control  trust  reginedebatty  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Infovore » Waving at the Machines
"It sounds strange when you first read it: behavioural change to accommodate the invisible gaze of the machines, just in case there’s an invisible depth-camera you’re obstructing. And at the same time: the literacy to understand that there when a screen is in front of a person, there might also be an optical relationship connecting the two – and to break it would be rude.<br />
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The Sensor-Vernacular isn’t, I don’t think, just about the aesthetic of the “robot-readable world“; it’s also about the behaviours it inspires and leads to.<br />
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How does a robot-readable world change human behaviour?…<br />
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Look at all the other gestures and outwards statements that the sensor-vernacular has already lead to: [examples]…<br />
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Where next for such behavioural shifts? How long before, rather than waving, or shaking hands, we greet each other with a calibration pose:<br />
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Which may sound absurd, but consider a business meeting of the future… [described]"
gestures  machines  tomarmitage  2011  kinect  waving  behavior  technology  sensors  interface  robots  sensor-vernacular  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Qatar could create robot clouds to cool World Cup watchers - CNN.com
"Researchers at Qatar University's engineering school have come up with a novel way to cool the stadiums ahead of the 2022 World Cup... giant flying saucers!Actually, they have announced plans to develop giant artificial remotely controlled "clouds" made up of high-tech materials that will be positioned between the blistering sun and the still-to-be-built football stadiums in the Gulf emirate.Dr. Saud Ghani, head of a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering group at Qatar University, tells CNN that the artificial robotic cloud could potentially drop the temperatures on the pitch by 10 degrees Fahrenheit."
robots  qatar  worldcup  2022  clouds  robotclouds  weather 
march 2011 by robertogreco
Sol Lewitt + Mechanical Turk : clementvalla
"Custom software recreates various Sol LeWitt drawings. The software also posts instructions on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Human workers execute the drawings online based on the instructions from the program. The workers are paid 5¢ for each drawing. The software then assembles the drawings in a grid. The computer generated drawings, and the grids filled in by anonymous workers are displayed side by side."
art  design  robots  drawing  crowdsourcing  mechanicalturk  sollewitt  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Kevin Slavin on Lift 11: Geneva - live streaming video powered by Livestream
Quotes transcribed by David Smith: "things we write but can no longer read"; "three problems … opacity, inscrutability … The third one is darker and a little bit harder to describe — I don't even know what to call it yet"; flash crash; dark pools; 60% of all movies rented on Netflix are rented because Netflix recommended them; 70% of current Wall St trades are algorithms trying to be invisible or other algorithms trying to find the invisible algorithms"
kevinslavin  technology  algorithms  evolution  wallstreet  cities  darkpools  netflix  trading  finance  invisibilealgorithms  financialservices  realestate  nyc  manhattan  songs  film  television  tv  opacity  inscrutability  elevators  lift11  roomba  robots  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Artificial Empathy – Blog – BERG
"Artificial Empathy is at the core of B.A.S.A.A.P. – it’s what powers Kacie Kinzer’s Tweenbots, and it’s what Byron and Nass were describing in The Media Equation to some extent, which of course brings us back to Clippy.

Clippy was referenced by Alex in her talk, and has been resurrected again as an auto-critique to current efforts to design and build agents and ‘things with behaviour’

One thing I recalled which I don’t think I’ve mentioned in previous discussions was that back in 1997, when Clippy was at the height of his powers – I did something that we’re told (quite rightly to some extent) no-one ever does – I changed the defaults.

You might not know, but there were several skins you could place on top of Clippy from his default paperclip avatar – a little cartoon Einstein, an ersatz Shakespeare… and a number of others."
ai  robotics  emotion  design  artificialempathy  empathy  bigdog  robots  mattjones  berg  berglondon  machines  dogs  behavior  adaptivepotentiation  play  seriousplay  toys  culture  human  basaap  emotionalrobots  emoticons  alexdeschamps-sonsino  reallyinterestinggroup  2011  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
space clearing (15 Jan., 2011, at Interconnected)
"Constrained walks and the dérive both reveal the city's psychogeography, and force the city to give up more of itself. It's funny to find, right on my doorstep, the streets I didn't know that I didn't know, the ones I'd got the unknown habit of avoiding. The city grows.<br />
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Space clearing makes visible and disrupts the psychogeography of my home. By standing in far corners, I find new perspectives. I strengthen rarely visited spots in my own mental map. Later, I find myself noticing the corners more. My house looks larger. The changed shape of my rooms encourages me to walk differently about the space. I stand in slightly unfamiliar spots, look at my bookshelves with a new-found unfamiliarity, and this prompts new combinations of titles to come to my attention, and new ideas.<br />
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I wonder if I could make something to do this for me? Maybe a robot vacuum cleaner programmed to find rarely visited corners and play an attention-grabbing sample, hey, over here, over here."
space  perspective  mattwebb  situationist  dérive  psychogeography  robots  constraints  flaneur  cities  homes  spaceclearing  mentalmaps  mapping  maps  attention  2011  derive  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
drawRobot 1.0 | "steve" on Vimeo
"steve stretches his legs (nxt servos) for the first time. controlled manually via the keyboard drawing a figure eight."
drawbots  robots  tomake  edg  projects  drawing  lego  legomindstorms  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - drawing robot
"the robot has two eyes which can only read black or white, if both eyes see black it'll go straight, if only one eye sees black it'll spin till the other eye sees black too."
drawbots  robots  edg  projects  tomake  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - Lego NXT signature bot
"Using the record/play block this bot can mimic your signature. This one writes something like pep~"
lego  legomindstorms  drawing  drawbots  robots  edg  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - MøBot: DeLeon II [drawbot]
"Newest evolution in the DrawBot series. This video demonstrates the new stylus arm design as well as sets DeLeon on task to begin drawing. I'm inclined to return to the wheel-based system for mobility as it is much more accurate. I really like the the relationship to crop-circles. I think this is starting to go somewhere." [See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR8rZnNgNdc ]
lego  legomindstorms  drawbots  robots  drawing  projects  edg  tomake  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Cars (again) - Charlie's Diary
"By around 2050, I'm fairly sure that the human-driven automobile will be a specialised race-track toy for gear-heads, much as horse-drawn carriages in the developed world are a quaint hobby or a deliberate affectation demanded by certain cultural groups (I'm thinking Amish here). Privately owned cars will exist, but will function more like a chauffeur-driven limo. They won't even need to be parked by your house; whistle and it'll come when you need it. Poor folks won't have their own car, they'll just have fractional reserve part-ownership of a vehicle — after all, even at peak rush hour, 95% of the UK vehicle fleet is parked up; we don't need one car per person, we just need available wheels whenever we want to go somewhere. By 2110, I figure driving a manually-controlled car around will be looked on the way we'd look on someone carrying a sword in public; at best it's a weird and archaic affectation, and at worst — call the police!"
cars  future  travel  robots  technology  cities  trains  transportation  transit  driving  2050  2010  charliestross  predictions  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
SHORT FILM: I'm Here  | The Spectator
"I’m Here is the underrated short film by director Spike Jonze. As with all his previous projects, Jonze plays with camera tricks, miniatures, molds and models rather than special effects and it is more than evident here that he’s one of the most gifted and unusual directors out there. He’s a director who prefers exploring unmarked territory. He goes where no one has dared before and his latest short is so original that midway through you’ll wonder why this has never been done before.

The plot revolves around a humanoid robot who works at a library in an alternative world where machines and humans co-exist. Nope, this isn’t another robots taking over the world kind of movie: it’s a bittersweet love story with an all-robot cast. Even though the world displayed onscreen most probably takes place in the future, the robots here look retro, which provides a nostalgic touch to this subtle and emotional short…"
spikejonze  film  imhere  robots  retrofuture  future  shorts  loneliness  love  emotions  storytelling  classideas  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Is Apple Making Us Japanese? | Hybrid Reality | Big Think
"Everyone is mesmerized by Apple’s ability to revolutionize the way we think about IT products. With the iPhone, for example, Apple has morphed a mere communication device into a platform that includes a music player, a video recorder, a note transcriber, and the capacity to handle thousands of other apps that each bring the phone tantalizingly close to a personal computer.

But Apple is doing something far more radical to us as a nation, something that might even outlive the innovative firm itself: it is singlehandedly transforming us into a society that will one day feel comfortable having emotional relationships with machines."
apple  machines  relationships  japan  japanese  robots  emotion  evocativeobjects  glvo  objects  love  disruptivetechnologies  clatchristenson  innovation  experience  utilitarianism  anime  manga  astroboy  future  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
LIBESKIND’S MACHINES « LEBBEUS WOODS [via http://twitter.com/javierest/status/22408866350 AND http://greg.org/archive/2010/08/28/do_daniel_libeskinds_awesome_machines_mean_i_have_to_stop_hating_his_work.html
"Their use of analogy to inform the field of architecture is a potent tool for exploring much-needed new ideas of space and its human purposes than are afforded by the ordinary design process based on history and accepted building typologies. In the past, architects such as Mies found architectural inspiration in works of art (see the post Art to Architecture), while Le Corbusier produced his own paintings and sculptures to work out complex aesthetic problems in his architecture. Libeskind’s machines are in this tradition, though the problems are different. More architects today could benefit from such an analogous method, if they set for themselves problems not already solved. This method, like the machines themselves, opens architecture to a wide range of knowledge coming from different fields of thought and work, which is sorely needed in a time such as the present, characterized by increasing diversity in the human situation."
architecture  design  machines  robots  sculpture  daniellibeskind  lebbeuswoods  interdisciplinary  diversity  human  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  knowledge  problemsolving  2009  reading  writing  memory  drawings  history  1979  architecture-as-text  text  post-structuralism  process  fabrication  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot - NYTimes.com
"Standing on a polka-dot carpet at a preschool on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, a robot named RUBI is teaching Finnish to a 3-year-old boy.
robots  robotics  education  autism  ai  schools  teaching  ucsd 
july 2010 by robertogreco
But First We Must Send Robots | Quiet Babylon
"Want to inspire the kids of tomorrow? Forget the heroic myths. That kind of inspiration is over. “Anyone can be the President.” No they can’t. We all know it.
timmaly  quietbabylon  space  nasa  economics  mars  exploration  robots  mannedspaceflights  engagement  cost  money  resources  internationalspacestation 
may 2010 by robertogreco
GetRobo Blog English: Marriage of Robotics with Handicraft
"Engineer and electronics shop owner Osamu Iwasaki who's been building robots for some time is currently interested in using "soft material" for his machines. His newest work is the RoboKnit which is a collaboration with Hanakomet who did the knitting. A little while ago, Iwasaki-san worked with textile artist Tomoco Mouri to make the Kinetic Quilt. He used a Lilypad Arduino, one $12 servo motor and piano wire and it took him about an hour to build this. ... So why combine handicraft with robotics? People's reactions to these kinds of robots is what motivates Iwasaki-san. The RoboKnit is "Cute!" and many children gathered around when he was filming the video at the park. On the other hand, the general impression of the Kinetic Quilt was "Creepy~~." "If they were just made of motors and metal, people would've reacted differently. I'm curious to find out what kind of movements and structure make people react in certain ways," he says."
glvo  crafts  edg  srg  robots  knitting  quilting  arduino  lilypad  roboknit 
february 2010 by robertogreco
A Robot Named Shimon Wants To Jam With You : NPR [see also: http://www.zoozbeat.com/]
"What was billed as the first intercontinental musical interaction between humans and robots took place the weekend of Dec. 17. It involved humans in Japan using an application called ZoozBeat on their iPhones and a robot named Shimon in Atlanta.
theloniousmonk  jazz  computing  robots  music  shimon  japan  programming  zoozbeat  improvisation 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Butcher, baker, candlestick maker « Snarkmarket
"Given access to a super-precise, industrial-strength, pro­gram­ma­ble robot arm, what would you do with it?
robots  future  society  life  technology  play  robinsloan  snarkmarket  access 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Snarkmarket: The Tao of Lego
"Yeah, I guess I don't buy the Indiana Jones Legos = decline of childhood stuff.
lego  creativity  make  childhood  toys  children  robots  snarkmarket 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people
""Social interaction is more important than we previously thought and underpins early learning. Research has shown that humans learn best from other humans, and a large part of this is timing, sensitive timing between a parent or a tutor and the child," said Meltzoff, who is a developmental psychologist.
education  learning  technology  children  science  psychology  language  brain  socialmedia  social  neuroscience  research  robots  tcsnmy 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you | Video on TED.com [see also: http://www.golanlevin.com/]
"Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer."
technology  art  science  visualization  interactive  robots  installation  future  golanlevin  cognition  sound  tcsnmy  voice  text 
july 2009 by robertogreco
tweenbots | kacie kinzer
"Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal."
robots  via:russelldavies  psychology  urban  nyc  technology  society  art  culture  classideas  tcsnmy  edg  glvo  srg  interactive  tweenbots 
april 2009 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: Holiday Gift Guide: Robots!
"For our MAKE Robot Gift Guide, we've put together a sampling of robot-related offerings from the Maker Shed, as well as some other robots we fancy. If you give or get any of these bots for the holidays, or especially if you or your recipients, hack them, we'd love to hear about it."
robots  robotics  edg  gifts  make  electronics  diy 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Arduino Controlled Servo Robot (SERB) - kit
"A great kit that includes everything you need to begin experimenting with robots, Arduino micro-controllers and open source hardware. All carefully packaged and nicely presented."
arduino  robots  robotics  edg  make  electronics  microcontrollers  via:reas 
november 2008 by robertogreco
DIY Drones
"This is a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to's, videos, discussion and more."
drones  diy  electronics  arduino  hardware  hacks  robots  aviation  airplanes  robotics  opensource  aircraft 
october 2008 by robertogreco
YouTube - robot generates a conception of itself
"it looks like a four-armed starfish, but so far it's unaware of its own shape. After flailing its arms for a while, however, the robot gets a sense of its design and begins to walk. The real feat comes when engineers remove a part of its leg: The robot senses a change in its structure and begins walking in a different way to compensate. The demonstration is the first proof that a robot can generate a conception of itself and then adapt to damage, a handy skill to have in unpredictable environments."
via:adamgreenfield  robots  intelligence  robotics  ai  consciousness 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Nerdbots :: Found object robot sculptures for your inner nerd.
"Oddly obsessed with all things robot, married couple Nicholas and Angela from Kansas City, Missouri, decided on a whim one day to do nothing other than to build one themselves.
glvo  robots  edg  sculpture  recycle  objects  design  vintage  found 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Biobloc
"Go to the discovery of the Bioblocs. In a few click your Biobloc learn alone how to walk, turn, run..."
games  evolution  robots  construction  3d  graphics  locomotion 
october 2008 by robertogreco
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Natalie Jeremijenko: The WorldChanging Interview
"EG: It's very much in the history of science in the western world, where you have these kooky Englishmen with too much time on their hands wandering off, studying botany and chemical reactions, inventing photography. And then in the last century, you have men in their basements with their little engineering projects. They didn't think of them as engineering projects, but they were essentially conducting science.
2004  nataliejeremijenko  worldchanging  interviews  surveillance  robotics  science  art  robots  activism  biology  biotechnology  technology  inventions  politics  design  hacktivism  environment  community 
september 2008 by robertogreco
7 Cool Robots for Geek Kids and Dads | Geekdad from Wired.com
"So here's my first look into the world of low cost robots. I should disclose that while I have purchased from some of these companies, I have not yet purchased or assembled any of these kits. I do plan to soon."
tcsnmy  robots  electronics  robotics  make 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Robots: Milling about aimlessly vs. milling - Core77
"As cool as it is, we don't like this first robot, Boston Dynamics' "LittleDog," which scuttles around like it's looking for prey:...We're much more keen on the Hexapod Robot CNC Router, because he stays put (at least in the video) and performs some handy-dandy ID functions."
robots  edg  bostondynamics  fabbing  rapidprototyping 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Heart Robot
"Heart is a puppet as well as a simple robot. As the puppeteer moves Heart, Heart gets more excited! There are three contributors to the unfolding event when Heart meets the public; the audience, the puppeteer, and Heart himself!"
robotics  robots  edg  interface  human  emotion  love  interactiondesign  technology  art 
august 2008 by robertogreco
WeDo: LEGO's new robotics system for elementary schools - Boing Boing Gadgets
"LEGO has announced a low-end, tethered robotics system called "WeDO" designed to be used in classrooms of elementary-aged children. It won't replace Mindstorms, but instead serve as an intermediate step between the more fully featured robotics platform a
lego  wedo  robots  robotics  programming  children  make  edg  coding 
july 2008 by robertogreco
OLPC News Forum: LEGO Announces WeDo Robotics System for the OLPC XO, Intel Classmate and desktop [via: http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/technology/olpc_and_lego_match.html]
"The LEGO Group's educational division, today announced LEGO(R) Education WeDo(TM), a new product that redefines classroom robotics, making it possible for primary school students 7-11 years of age to build and program their own solutions"
lego  olpc  robots  children  make  edg  glvo  classideas 
july 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: More Zach DeBord Pummers
"Zach DeBord, who did the bots and photos in my Pummer, Dude! piece in MAKE Volume 08, and collab'd with me on the Vibrobots and Solar Roller pieces for Street Tech, has posted a bunch of new pics of his Pummers on his Flickr sets."
make  robots  electronics  projects  classideas  edg 
july 2008 by robertogreco
matt kirkland > designer for hire > stupid projects > in vestimentis ursum
"Surely the robot hiding in the bear's clothing, vestimentis ursum, is impressive. So: armed with my childish curiousity and the spurious excuse of 'product design research,' I set out to discover what, exactly, these creatures are hiding."
via:kottke  plush  toys  robots  dolls  glvo  robotics  photography 
june 2008 by robertogreco
WebHome < Main < Reprap
"RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic."
opensource  hardware  diy  3dprinter  3d  prototype  technology  rapidprototyping  fabrication  fabbing  reprap  reproduction  replicator  machines  robots  future 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Reconsidering the Lego Robotics... [Bill Kerr makes a great point about class time in the comments.]
"robotics programs in primary and secondary schools...many have been successes, but limited successes...relative expansion of Lego robotics in schools has coincided with a virtual collapse of computer science US K-12 schools in general."
robots  robotics  computers  compsci  schools  education  learning  children  lego 
may 2008 by robertogreco
More Than Meets the Eye by Nicole Pasulka - The Morning News [recent robot news roundup]
"There is a distinct possibility that, within our lifetimes, robots will be everywhere—taking out the trash, day-tripping to Mars, winning the Nobel prize. During the past month, news about robots was frequently amazing and sometimes terrifying"
robots  trends 
may 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: Shape-Shifting Robots
"The University of Pennsylvania created these modular robots that are able to recognize each other and assemble themselves into 1 larger robot. Once assembled, the larger robot is able to walk...theoretically. I just like the part where the guy kicks it!"
robots  robotics  reassembly 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Putting people first » Videos online of Share Festival 2008 conferences
"All videos of conferences at Bruce Sterling curated Share Festival in Turin, Italy, are now online. Aside from Bruce Sterling, exhilarating discussants were Massimo Banzi, Julian Bleecker, Donald Norman and Marcos Novak, to name just a few."
towatch  video  design  manufacturing  donaldnorman  julianbleecker  brucesterling  technology  art  future  robots  intelligence  neuroscience  fabbing  culture 
april 2008 by robertogreco
roBlocks is a robot construction kit.
"By combining sensor, logic and actuator blocks, young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behavior. roBlocks are self-describing, so they can provide helpful feedback to the user, and automatically adjust their
arduino  construction  robots  children  learning  electronics  via:russelldavies  gadgets  robotics  toys  education  hardware  diy  make  programming  elearning  coding 
april 2008 by robertogreco
A TIME AND PLACE - Christian Moeller: Mojo
"robotic arm holding theater spotlight shines perfect circle of light onto sidewalk corner of 7th & Centre Streets. Two videocameras attached to roof of building survey area around the sculpture while Mojo tries to follow the passers-by with light beam."
art  design  public  robots  sanpedro  losangeles 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Open the Future: Please Don't Kick the Robots
"reaction to seeing robot kicked paralleled what I would have had if I'd seen a video of a pack mule or a real big dog being kicked...not only one with that kind of immediate response...It simply felt wrong."
abuse  animals  empathy  psychology  robots  emotions  technology 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - Humanity's Identity Crises
"Who am I? Can there be more than one species of human? Can a robot be a child of God? Is slavery among intelligent machines acceptable? Should we extend the circle of empathy beyond animals and living things to made things? If it hurts, is it real?"
reality  robots  philipkdick  identity  humanity  humans  kevinkelly  philosophy  futurism  future  empathy  compassion  technology 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Flexible robotic fin does away with drag - tech - 29 February 2008 - New Scientist Tech
"A robotic fin that mimics the energy-efficient manoeuvres of an agile fish's pectoral fins has been developed by US researchers. Working out how to use multiple versions in conjunction could allow robot submarines to hover and turn on a dime as natural s
robots  propulsion  fish  biology  biomimicry  robotics 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Wired News - AP News: Study Finds Dogs, Robots Cheer Elderly
"Robotic competition is nipping at [dogs'] heels in the man's-best-friend department...study by Saint Louis U found lovable pooch named Sparky & robotic dog AIBO, were about equally effective at relieving loneliness of nursing home residents"
robots  dogs  animals  loneliness  elderly  technology  society  robotics  health  comfort 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Robot 'plays back' dreams - we make money not art
"Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positions, "Sleep Waking" acts as a way to "play-back" dreams."
robots  sleep  robotics  installation  art  dreams  brain 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Pollen Robots ::: Pink Tentacle
"As hay fever season approaches, Tokyo-based weather forecasting company Weathernews, Inc. is deploying a 200-strong army of beady-eyed, ball-shaped robots nationwide to monitor the pollen situation."
robots  health  japan  allergies  pollen  plants  tokyo  weather  sensors  monitoring  maps  mapping  environment 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Dark Roasted Blend: The Machine-Animals of Nantes
"French city of Nantes recently became host to extremely strange and fascinating sculptural display: "Les Machines de l'Ile Nantes", designed by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice."
animals  robotics  robots  squid  sculptures  exhibitions  machines  sculpture  puppets  steampunk 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic Life Comes Next
"With the new ability to sequence a genome, scientists can begin to custom-design organisms, essentially creating biological robots that can produce from scratch chemicals humans can use. Biofuels like ethanol, for example."
genetics  DNA  science  life  biotechnology  robots  coding  cloning  biology 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Is AIBO returning from the dead? - Engadget
"Supposedly, AIBO is back... with a vengence. According to rumors, the fiesty-but-killed robo-dog from Sony is making a comeback with a new paintjob and whole slew of fresh features."
robots  aibo 
december 2007 by robertogreco
PingMag - The Great Robot Exhibition
"current exhibition at National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno, Tokyo: The Great Robot Exhibition: karakuri, anime and the latest robots to admire all sorts of automata, androids, anime, toys and other robot lookalikes"
japan  robots  pingmag 
december 2007 by robertogreco
greyworld - monument_to_the_unknown_artist_
"At first glance Monument to the Unknown Artist appears to be a simple bronze statue, dressed in a neck scarf and loose fitting suit. However, the six meter monument seeks inspiration from passers-by, inviting them to strike poses which he copies, continu
greyworld  public  art  uk  tatemodern  sculpture  robots  motion  interactive 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Sherry Turkle (World Question Center 2006 - What is your dangerous idea?)
"After several generations of living in the computer culture, simulation will become fully naturalized. Authenticity in the traditional sense loses its value, a vestige of another time."
simulations  technology  virtual  identity  authenticity  robots  culture  darwin  ethics  future  sherryturkle 
november 2007 by robertogreco
things magazine: If we were in charge of administering black budgets and ultra-secret projects
"Imagine swarm of...paparazzibots, programmed to relentlessly home in on Paris Hilton's iPhone...Tomorrow's celebrities...permanently accompanied by unwelcome micro-cloud of buzzing devices...mimicking fly-strewn perimeter of Pigpen from Peanuts."
spying  surveillance  uav  mav  police  robots 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Technology Review: Random-Access Warehouses
"Squat orange robots and a set of adaptive algorithms are making it possible to deliver online orders faster. The system, so far installed in two giant Staples warehouses, allows workers to fill two to three times as many orders as they could with convent
automation  robots  productivity  business 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Rise of the giggling robots: toddlers accept robot as a peer — Futurismic
"Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that it doesn’t take much to get toddlers to accept a robot as just another kid."
robots  children  social 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Google Phone - New York Times
"Andy Rubin...oversees a secretive Google software project that the company hopes will transform the smartphone market."
google  googlephone  mobile  phones  innovation  sidekick  mobility  internet  web  online  apple  engineering  webtv  andyrubin  robotics  robots 
november 2007 by robertogreco
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