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Author: David Hanson Publisher: ISBN: 9781549659928 Category : Languages : en Pages : 221
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Dr. David Hanson's work creates humanlike robots with increasing intelligence and feelings, resulting in many of the most startling robots in recent years including: Sophia, the walking Albert Hubo, and the android portrait of Philip K Dick. These robots can see you and talk with you with A.I., and express themselves with a full range of natural expressions. This book discusses the origins of this work in Hanson's Ph.D. research conducted from 2002-2007; a newly revised edit of Dr. Hanson's Ph.D. dissertation, "Humanizing Robots" describes his early integrated research in cognitive A.I., bio-inspired mechanics, material science, sculpture and animation, expressive robotic faces and walking robot bodies, and his personal efforts to bring robots to life quite literally. The work includes wide-ranging scientific, artistic and technological research seeking to bring these robots into the world, and considers the philosophical and ethical implications of creating such artificial lifeforms. Hanson's Ph.D. research produced walking, talking, emotionally expressive robots and technologies heralded as "genius" by WIRED magazine and PC magazine, and featured in many popular venues including National Geographic, Popular Science, Le Figaro, Science Magazine. This dissertation also includes selected excerpts from Hanson's published, peer-reviewed papers and articles in IEEE, Science, Springer, Cog Sci, AI Magazine, and SPIE journals, chapters in 4 books, and a coauthored book with JPL senior scientist Yoseph Bar-Cohen. A former professional sculptor and Walt Disney Imagineer, with a film degree from RISD, Hanson's Ph.D. dissertation also considers the art theory and practice of developing intelligent robot characters, and strives to bring together the arts with the sciences as a holistic "super-discipline" which intends to bring robots to life as self-improving super-intelligent friends to the human species. Funded in part under awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ph.D. research won awards from AAAI, Tech Titans, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and a World Technology Award, and several best poster and paper awards, and was presented at TED in 2004 and 2008. In Humanizing Interfaces, Hanson describes details of his inventions and coinventions of numerous technologies during his Ph.D. reseach, including patented lipid-bilayer nanotech for naturalistic skin, expressive face mechanisms, virtual character tools, and neurocognitive-inspired software systems for machine cognition. The book also narrates the story of Hanson's developent of numerous noted robots, including the Philip K. Dick Android, the walking Einstein portrait Albert-Hubo (in collaboration with KAIST), Bina48, and the small Zeno RoboKind. He describes here the use of these robots serve a wide range of research in cognitive science, autism treatment, and robotics at institutions including JPL, Cambridge University, KAIST, UCSD, and the University of Geneva, U. Pisa, and the Autism Treatment Center in Dallas. Also, the book describes the exhibitions of these robots as artworks at the Cooper Hewwit, the Tokyo Modern, the Reina Sofia, and many other museums and galleries, with positive art reviews in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, and other sources. By emulating human bio-systems, from cognition to locomotion to social expression, Hanson seeks to unlock mysteries of human nature and yield machines that are creatively brilliant, truly conscious, and friends with us. Towards this end, in 2009 Hanson founded the nonprofit Initiative for Awakening Machines (IAM), dedicated to realizing super-benevolent, superintelligent AI. By diverse collaboration with many researchers in numerous scientific and arts disciplines, Hanson seeks to participate in an integrated "superdiscipline", of robotic artificial life and sentience, and pursue insights into the deepest nature of mind, meaning, of humanity and beyond.
Author: David Hanson Publisher: ISBN: 9781549659928 Category : Languages : en Pages : 221
Book Description
Dr. David Hanson's work creates humanlike robots with increasing intelligence and feelings, resulting in many of the most startling robots in recent years including: Sophia, the walking Albert Hubo, and the android portrait of Philip K Dick. These robots can see you and talk with you with A.I., and express themselves with a full range of natural expressions. This book discusses the origins of this work in Hanson's Ph.D. research conducted from 2002-2007; a newly revised edit of Dr. Hanson's Ph.D. dissertation, "Humanizing Robots" describes his early integrated research in cognitive A.I., bio-inspired mechanics, material science, sculpture and animation, expressive robotic faces and walking robot bodies, and his personal efforts to bring robots to life quite literally. The work includes wide-ranging scientific, artistic and technological research seeking to bring these robots into the world, and considers the philosophical and ethical implications of creating such artificial lifeforms. Hanson's Ph.D. research produced walking, talking, emotionally expressive robots and technologies heralded as "genius" by WIRED magazine and PC magazine, and featured in many popular venues including National Geographic, Popular Science, Le Figaro, Science Magazine. This dissertation also includes selected excerpts from Hanson's published, peer-reviewed papers and articles in IEEE, Science, Springer, Cog Sci, AI Magazine, and SPIE journals, chapters in 4 books, and a coauthored book with JPL senior scientist Yoseph Bar-Cohen. A former professional sculptor and Walt Disney Imagineer, with a film degree from RISD, Hanson's Ph.D. dissertation also considers the art theory and practice of developing intelligent robot characters, and strives to bring together the arts with the sciences as a holistic "super-discipline" which intends to bring robots to life as self-improving super-intelligent friends to the human species. Funded in part under awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ph.D. research won awards from AAAI, Tech Titans, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and a World Technology Award, and several best poster and paper awards, and was presented at TED in 2004 and 2008. In Humanizing Interfaces, Hanson describes details of his inventions and coinventions of numerous technologies during his Ph.D. reseach, including patented lipid-bilayer nanotech for naturalistic skin, expressive face mechanisms, virtual character tools, and neurocognitive-inspired software systems for machine cognition. The book also narrates the story of Hanson's developent of numerous noted robots, including the Philip K. Dick Android, the walking Einstein portrait Albert-Hubo (in collaboration with KAIST), Bina48, and the small Zeno RoboKind. He describes here the use of these robots serve a wide range of research in cognitive science, autism treatment, and robotics at institutions including JPL, Cambridge University, KAIST, UCSD, and the University of Geneva, U. Pisa, and the Autism Treatment Center in Dallas. Also, the book describes the exhibitions of these robots as artworks at the Cooper Hewwit, the Tokyo Modern, the Reina Sofia, and many other museums and galleries, with positive art reviews in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, and other sources. By emulating human bio-systems, from cognition to locomotion to social expression, Hanson seeks to unlock mysteries of human nature and yield machines that are creatively brilliant, truly conscious, and friends with us. Towards this end, in 2009 Hanson founded the nonprofit Initiative for Awakening Machines (IAM), dedicated to realizing super-benevolent, superintelligent AI. By diverse collaboration with many researchers in numerous scientific and arts disciplines, Hanson seeks to participate in an integrated "superdiscipline", of robotic artificial life and sentience, and pursue insights into the deepest nature of mind, meaning, of humanity and beyond.
Author: Frank Pasquale Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674975227 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 345
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AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation. Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: make robots or be replaced by them. Another story is possible. In virtually every walk of life, robotic systems can make labor more valuable, not less. Frank Pasquale tells the story of nurses, teachers, designers, and others who partner with technologists, rather than meekly serving as data sources for their computerized replacements. This cooperation reveals the kind of technological advance that could bring us all better health care, education, and more, while maintaining meaningful work. These partnerships also show how law and regulation can promote prosperity for all, rather than a zero-sum race of humans against machines. How far should AI be entrusted to assume tasks once performed by humans? What is gained and lost when it does? What is the optimal mix of robotic and human interaction? New Laws of Robotics makes the case that policymakers must not allow corporations or engineers to answer these questions alone. The kind of automation we get—and who it benefits—will depend on myriad small decisions about how to develop AI. Pasquale proposes ways to democratize that decision making, rather than centralize it in unaccountable firms. Sober yet optimistic, New Laws of Robotics offers an inspiring vision of technological progress, in which human capacities and expertise are the irreplaceable center of an inclusive economy.
Author: Luca M. Possati Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111007561 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 116
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What does humankind expect from AI? What kind of relationship between man and intelligent machine are we aiming for? Does an AI need to be able to recognize human unconscious dynamics to act for the "best" of humans—that "best" that not even humans can clearly define? Humanizing AI analyses AI and its numerous applications from a psychoanalytical point of view to answer these questions. This important, interdisciplinary contribution to the social sciences, as applied to AI, shows that reflecting on AI means reflecting on the human psyche and personality; therefore conceiving AI as a process of deconstruction and reconstruction of human identity. AI gives rise to processes of identification and de-identification that are not simply extensions of human identities—as post-humanist or trans-humanist approaches believe—but completely new forms of identification. Humanizing AI will benefit a broad audience: undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers in sociology, social theory, science and technology studies, cultural studies, philosophy, social psychology, and international relations. It will also appeal to programmers, software designers, students, and professionals in the sciences.
Author: Christoph Bartneck Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 100942422X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 324
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The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human–robot interaction (HRI) by leading researchers in this developing field is the first to provide a broad overview of the multidisciplinary topics central to modern HRI research. Written for students and researchers from robotics, artificial intelligence, psychology, sociology, and design, it presents the basics of how robots work, how to design them, and how to evaluate their performance. Self-contained chapters discuss a wide range of topics, including speech and language, nonverbal communication, and processing emotions, plus an array of applications and the ethical issues surrounding them. This revised and expanded second edition includes a new chapter on how people perceive robots, coverage of recent developments in robotic hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, and exercises for readers to test their knowledge.
Author: Ruth Aylett Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262365472 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 309
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The truth about robots: two experts look beyond the hype, offering a lively and accessible guide to what robots can (and can't) do. There’s a lot of hype about robots; some of it is scary and some of it utopian. In this accessible book, two robotics experts reveal the truth about what robots can and can’t do, how they work, and what we can reasonably expect their future capabilities to be. It will not only make you think differently about the capabilities of robots; it will make you think differently about the capabilities of humans. Ruth Aylett and Patricia Vargas discuss the history of our fascination with robots—from chatbots and prosthetics to autonomous cars and robot swarms. They show us the ways in which robots outperform humans and the ways they fall woefully short of our superior talents. They explain how robots see, feel, hear, think, and learn; describe how robots can cooperate; and consider robots as pets, butlers, and companions. Finally, they look at robots that raise ethical and social issues: killer robots, sexbots, and robots that might be gunning for your job. Living with Robots equips readers to look at robots concretely—as human-made artifacts rather than placeholders for our anxieties. Find out: •Why robots can swim and fly but find it difficult to walk •Which robot features are inspired by animals and insects •Why we develop feelings for robots •Which human abilities are hard for robots to emulate
Author: Jennifer Rhee Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 145295741X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 233
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Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor The word robot—introduced in Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R.—derives from rabota, the Czech word for servitude or forced labor. A century later, the play’s dystopian themes of dehumanization and exploited labor are being played out in factories, workplaces, and battlefields. In The Robotic Imaginary, Jennifer Rhee traces the provocative and productive connections of contemporary robots in technology, film, art, and literature. Centered around the twinned processes of anthropomorphization and dehumanization, she analyzes the coevolution of cultural and technological robots and artificial intelligence, arguing that it is through the conceptualization of the human and, more important, the dehumanized that these multiple spheres affect and transform each other. Drawing on the writings of Alan Turing, Sara Ahmed, and Arlie Russell Hochschild; such films and novels as Her and The Stepford Wives; technologies like Kismet (the pioneering “emotional robot”); and contemporary drone art, this book explores anthropomorphic paradigms in robot design and imagery in ways that often challenge the very grounds on which those paradigms operate in robotics labs and industry. From disembodied, conversational AI and its entanglement with care labor; embodied mobile robots as they intersect with domestic labor; emotional robots impacting affective labor; and armed military drones and artistic responses to drone warfare, The Robotic Imaginary ultimately reveals how the human is made knowable through the design of and discourse on humanoid robots that are, paradoxically, dehumanized.
Author: Domenico Parisi Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027270082 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 503
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This book is for both robot builders and scientists who study human behaviour and human societies. Scientists do not only collect empirical data but they also formulate theories to explain the data. Theories of human behaviour and human societies are traditionally expressed in words but, today, with the advent of the computer they can also be expressed by constructing computer-based artefacts. If the artefacts do what human beings do, the theory/blueprint that has been used to construct the artefacts explains human behaviour and human societies. Since human beings are primarily bodies, the artefacts must be robots, and human robots must progressively reproduce all we know about human beings and their societies. And, although they are purely scientific tools, they can have one very important practical application: helping human beings to better understand the many difficult problems they face today and will face in the future - and, perhaps, to find solutions for these problems.
Author: Takayuki Kanda Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1466506989 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 372
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Human–Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot system that works with people in everyday environments. Edited by leading figures in the field of social robotics, it draws on contributions by researchers working on the Robovie project at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, a world leader in humanoid interactive robotics. The book brings together, in one volume, technical and empirical research that was previously scattered throughout the literature. Taking a networked robot approach, the book examines how robots work in cooperation with ubiquitous sensors and people over telecommunication networks. It considers the use of social robots in daily life, grounding the work in field studies conducted at a school, train station, shopping mall, and science museum. Critical in the development of network robots, these usability studies allow researchers to discover real issues that need to be solved and to understand what kinds of services are possible. The book tackles key areas where development is needed, namely, in sensor networks for tracking humans and robots, humanoids that can work in everyday environments, and functions for interacting with people. It introduces a sensor network developed by the authors and discusses innovations in the Robovie humanoid, including several interactive behaviors and design policies. Exploring how humans interact with robots in daily life settings, this book offers valuable insight into how robots may be used in the future. The combination of engineering, empirical, and field studies provides readers with rich information to guide in developing practical interactive robots.
Author: Oliver Korn Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030171078 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 299
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Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces – we meet them in shopping malls and even more personal settings like health and care. Does this imply they should become more human, able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Do we want them to help elderly people? Do we want them to support us when we are old ourselves? Do we want them to just clean and keep things orderly – or would we accept them helping us to go to the toilet, or even feed us if we suffer from Parkinson’s disease? The answers to these questions differ from person to person. They depend on cultural background, personal experiences – but probably most of all on the robot in question. This book covers the phenomenon of social robots from the historic roots to today’s best practices and future perspectives. To achieve this, we used a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach, incorporating findings from computer scientists, engineers, designers, psychologists, doctors, nurses, historians and many more. The book also covers a vast spectrum of applications, from collaborative industrial work over education to sales. Especially for developments with a high societal impact like robots in health and care settings, the authors discuss not only technology, design and usage but also ethical aspects. Thus this book creates both a compendium and a guideline, helping to navigate the design space for future developments in social robotics.
Author: Richard Pak Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 012815635X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 220
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Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robotics focuses on the issues that come to bear when humans interact and collaborate with robots. The book dives deeply into critical factors that impact how individuals interact with robots at home, work and play. It includes topics ranging from robot anthropomorphic design, degree of autonomy, trust, individual differences and machine learning. While other books focus on engineering capabilities or the highly conceptual, philosophical issues of human-robot interaction, this resource tackles the human elements at play in these interactions, which are essential if humans and robots are to coexist and collaborate effectively. Authored by key psychology robotics researchers, the book limits its focus to specifically those robots who are intended to interact with people, including technology such as drones, self-driving cars, and humanoid robots. Forward-looking, the book examines robots not as the novelty they used to be, but rather the practical idea of robots participating in our everyday lives. - Explores how individual differences in cognitive abilities and personality influence human-robot interaction - Examines the human response to robot autonomy - Includes tools and methods for the measurement of social emotion with robots - Delves into a broad range of domains - military, caregiving, toys, surgery, and more - Anticipates the issues we will encountering with robots in the next ten years - Foreword by Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted
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