Video by Fw:Thinking
- A lot of robotics companies choose to make their robots look less human to avoid the uncanny valley
- They still include some features to make it easier to have a social interaction with the robot
- Things such as facial features to encourage natural interaction
- Human psychology - triggering natural empathy
- Adults more accepting of child-size and child-like robots making mistakes - Honda Asimo
- More forgiving of "naive", "cute" robots
Computers That Think Like Humans
Video by Fw:Thinking
- Computers can do advanced mathematics
- Natural architecture of human brain to recognise things - music, faces, etc
- Computers traditionally only do one thing at a time, while brains can do millions of operations at once
- Brains take up less energy, naturally designed to learn or "reprogram" itself
- Google Brain able to learn what a cat is based off millions of YouTube videos
- Robot that responds to positive reinforcement
I am interested in looking at human interactions with robots, and how the future of robotics can affect various elements of our lives, such as social media and jobs.
These videos have helped me gain an understanding of robotics as they are today, and how they might progress into the future. It seems that robotics is based heavily around being "humanlike", and with social media this can be seen with users who bridge the gap between technology and humanity, as well as bringing into question whether or not heavily edited images count as real anymore, since they are so distorted from reality. It is also interesting to note how humans react to these robots, and how we are more empathetic to "cute" robots.
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