Limerick laureate Martin Eiger evaluates a technology news item (“Hitachi Unveils Robot With a Sense of Humour“—AFP): Hitachi’s new robot is shrewd. It tells its own jokes, they conclude. I’m a little bit vexed About what they’ll make next. If it writes its own limericks, I’m screwed.
Tag: robot
Robots Ring the Doorbell
“Generally speaking, modeling the developmental trajectory for almost any intelligent task that a 2-year-old child can perform on a robot is a potential research topic for us.” – explains the website of the Developmental Robotics Lab at Iowa State University, US. As an example to help clarify the (somewhat ambiguous) statement above, see the lab’s […]
Clothes are for climbing: Clothbot
Behold Clothbot, a small machine that climbs clothing: The inventors presented technical details: “System and Design of Clothbot: a Robot for Flexible Clothes Climbing,” Yuanyuan Liu, Xinyu Wu, Huihuan Qian, Duan Zheng, Jianquan Sun and Yangsheng Xu [Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong], paper presented at 2012 IEEE International Conference on […]
Story of a cute robot
The story of Boxie, the designed-to-be-cute, wandering, info-gathering robot at MIT: Perhaps Boxie will come to the Ig Informal Lectures at MIT, perhaps…. BONUS: A not-so-cute robot at MIT