An insightful article in today’s Chicago Tribune suggests that while the field of robotics has advanced considerably beyond expectations over the last 40 years, science and technology have a long ways to go before achieving the level of robustness and utility that many still dream of achieving in a robot. We should make no mistakes, [...] View more...
I think, therefore I am . . . a robot?
Friday, April 24th, 2009Biomimetics is the new Robotics
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009According to a recent Scientific American article, the new focus of the next generation of robotics is biomimetics— a field focused on the construction of machines that take ideas from nature as inspiration for their appearance, behavior, and physical representation. Research on this front is not new if one considers the Renaissance and Leonardo da [...] View more...
iRobot vs. ASIMO
Monday, April 20th, 2009iRobot CEO may question relevancy of humanoids, but ASIMO still leaves the Warrior bot in its tracks View more...
Humans, Robots, God
Sunday, April 12th, 2009How Religion Affects Our Views of Humanoid Robots It might be surprising, and a bit unexpected, for many of those trained in Western post-modern scientific traditions to consider the words “God” and “robot” in the same sentence or context. After all, robots are technological marvels, often seen as representing a way of salvation beyond the confines [...] View more...
Neurobioengineering the Future of Robotics
Friday, April 10th, 2009Speaking to a trade conference in January 2007, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, argued that the next big technological horizon will be in robotics and projected that the field is currently in the same position as the computer industry was in the mid-1970s on the verge of the Home PC explosion. If that is the case, [...] View more...
Zygbotics | Future Flashback
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009After almost two months since the inception of Zygbotics, I thought it would be appropriate to reiterate some of the major themes of this site, how I think of the future of robotics, as well as some observations about where the technology is heading in the years and decades to come. View more...
Japanese Child Humanoid Robot Mimics Infant Behavior
Monday, April 6th, 2009Japan’s robot nation is developing at a lightning pace as a growing population of distinctive humanoids continue to set new global standards in the field of robotics and AI capabilities. During the last two weeks Zygbotics has reported on a series of new and fascinating robotic innovations coming out of Japan: the HRP-4C girl robot, [...] View more...
Technological Representation and Social Transformation: Removing the Mask on 1970s Depictions of Humanoid Robots
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Thanks to a considerable number of Hollywood depictions of human-like robots, the decade of the 1970s was a formative period for the introduction of humanoid robots into Western mainstream society. Cases in point are the series of episodes from the Bionic Woman and the 1973 Michael Crichton movie, Westworld. Both portrayed humanoid robots as seemingly [...] View more...
iCub Humanoid Robot has Human-like Cognition
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009What can a 3 1/2 year old child robot teach us about human cognition? A significant amount, according to a group of researchers in Italy and the U.K. The humanoid robot named iCub has recently been acquired by Imperial College of London, from its birthplace in Italy. The robot will spend the next several years [...] View more...
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