Technocultural research into robotics.
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Departing Durrant-Whyte tells the Australian Centre for Field Robotics story
In his final public spiel as Director of the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Hugh Durrant-Whyte connected his personal motivations and values with his ambitious goals to create a successful research centre.
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Annotated photos of Robotworld
I have organised some of my photos from Robotworld in Korea (October 28-31, 2010) into three categories: entertainment robots, service robots and industrial robots. These categories are somewhat loose. I have annotated the photos with company names and weblinks where I have been able to trace them down.
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Impressions of Robotworld, Seoul 2010
Which robots will be culturally and economically viable? There is no easy answer to this question. Wandering around Robotworld for three days gave only some indications.
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Media on tumblr
I’m posting some images from Seoul ARSO2010 (advanced robotics social impacts) on my tumblr page: chrischesher.tumblr.com
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Seoul view
View from Hotel Victoria in Seoul. My first visit here.
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Following Robot
This clip shows a prototype robot from an early stage of the collaboration between Paul Gazzola and Paul Granjon at the Campbelltown Arts Centre. This simple robot could follow a line formed by a line of plastic tape stuck to the ground.
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Virtuosabots: all-singing, all-dancing robots
The HRP-4, ‘Diva-Bot’ robot singer, which premiered at the CEATEC Japan 2010 trade show in October 2010, is another in a series of virtuosabots. Virtuosabots deliver uncannily human performances, always mimicking a prized human talent: trumpet playing, violin playing or dancing to Bolero.
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Kismet and robotic expression
Kismet was an early robotic research project at MIT Media Lab that helped draw popular attention to the possibility of expressive communication between robots and people.
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Making robots real (with help from Latour)
Cultural robotics needs a theory to account for the ways technological problems, such as robotics, are constantly defined, redefined and distributed across society. Robotics is already embedded in a social history of technology, drawing on black-boxed elements from technological legacies that deal with the problems of propulsion and control — how to get things to…