In the quest to breathe Artificial Life into sociable robots, researchers draw inspiration from biological systems and evolutionary processes. By imitating natural phenomena through software, hardware and wetware, new and somewhat controversial, areas of study have emerged that promise to imbue many types of robots with Artificial Life. As dynamic systems that evolve and solve [...] View more...
Three Laws of Robotics Make Robots Dream of the Zeroth Law
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Over the years, Isaac Asimov’s legendary Three Laws of Robotics have been a rich source of material and entertainment for journalists, roboticists and South Korean government policy makers, as well as his many devoted readers. What has been especially striking is the seriousness with which the Three Laws of Robotics have been treated. When Asimov [...] View more...
RoboGames – The Worlds Largest Robot Rumble
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009At the annual RoboGames event, held in San Francisco, the dream of a Robotic Future is quite literally, alive and kicking. Now in it’s sixth year, the volunteer managed, RoboGames competition, attracts thousands of Robotics enthusiasts from all over the world. Some come to battle their mechanical minions to the death in the Robot Arena [...] View more...
Humanoid Robots Anticipate Your Next Move
Monday, June 22nd, 2009In the quest to make Humanoid Robots that interact more “naturally” with their human “partners”, researchers involved in the EU-funded JAST Project are well on their way to achieving this goal. Combining the fields of Robotics, Psychology and Cognitive Science, the project makes use of studies in Human-Human collaboration to better understand the qualities that [...] View more...
Humanoid Robots Have to “Earn” their Place in Society
Saturday, June 20th, 2009How and when will Personal Humanoid Robots be adopted in the millions of family homes across the world? Are there uses that we, as a society, have not yet imagined for our future robotic adoptees? Whilst there is a clear and undisputed utility for robotic assistants in the homes of people with special needs, what [...] View more...
Robot Toys Say Fur is the New Black!
Thursday, June 18th, 2009On the subject of Robot Toys, if you had asked me as a teenager fixated with all things Star Wars, “What will robots look like in the future?” I would have readily quipped “That’s easy, they’ll look like R2D2 and C3PO!” In hindsight, it may have been more prescient to have added, “Oh, and they’ll [...] View more...
Beyond Photo Realism in Robot Design
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009There are many ways to build a robot and just as many factors that influence the final appearance of the world’s robotic creations. Due to personal beliefs and cultural biases, many engineers and robot designers reject the validity of Photo Realistic Humanoids in favour of less controversial, pure engineering solutions. So what drives some roboticists [...] View more...
Robot Autonomy – When Will Robots be let off their Short Leash?
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Reach, an incredibly endearing short animation movie by award winner, Luke Randall, addresses the very real problem of robot autonomy that roboticists worldwide have been struggling to solve for decades. In the film, a cute robot is left to explore its environment and attempts to overcome the limitations of its depressingly short power cable. Once [...] View more...
The Iron Giant and Other Examples of Human-Robot Interaction in Popular Culture
Friday, June 12th, 2009Continuing the theme of robots that have attained stardom in popular media, The Iron Giant movie, based on the novel by British poet laureate Ted Hughes, serves as one of the most intelligently executed studies of human-robot interaction in fiction. This award-winning animated movie, that seamlessly blends traditional hand-drawn techniques with computer generated graphics, [...] View more...
WALL-E Makes Hobby Robotics Look Cool
Thursday, June 4th, 2009When you think of WALL-E – Disney’s loveable yellow garbage-compactor robot on treads – you probably don’t think about hobby robotics. But a group of enthusiasts have built an open domain robotics community inspired by the animated film. The movie follows the story of a robot named WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class) which [...] View more...
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