Technocultural research into robotics
Edited by Chris Chesher and Justine Humphry
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Beers in the bathroom
Hanging in the upstairs men’s toilet is a poster that lays out a ‘Periodic Table of Beers’. This delicious combination of scientific iconography, postgraduate irreverence and well-researched information really suits the style of the ACFR.
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Optimising Mars Rovering
At the ACFR there are regular presentations from visitors, academics and students. The first I saw was from Swiss engineer Franziska Ullrich, who presented work she had done to design an optimal Mars Rover that could take on the hostile, rocky, alien environment of an exhibit at the Powerhouse Museum.
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Setting out on the trail
My first challenge in setting up my computer is to set a password that the system will accept. Apparently this is the state of the art in artificial intelligence: a system that assesses the highly secure passwords to be just beyond the threshold of human memory. This was almost as annoying as the squeaky chair,…