Here's an article i read from Le Matinal today:
http://www.lematinal.com/sci-tech/8326-icub-le-robot-enfant-qui-montre-de-vraies-emotions.html
Last time i commented on the ex-machina article, there was a picture where you could see the robot's facial expression...as if it could really feel and understand what it was touching-just like a human. The purpose of designing such robots is to facilitate human to robot interaction. I guess its because it is more easy to communicate with something that is visually similar/ looks like humans.
Getting back to the article i read. This is not similar to ex-machina (which is to my opinion the perfect human-like robot they built or designed so far- but that's just in movies) but it is the beginning of such kind of inventions that can eventually results to building robots like ex-machina! who knows!
Here are other links where you can read about some of the humanoid robots designed so far:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susankalla/2015/01/20/human-like-robots-are-getting-jobs/
http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/japans-new-robots-are-scary/
Regards.
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> Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 08:12:01 -0700
> To: nadim.attari_at_gmail.com; lamusse.amaelle_at_gmail.com; mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> From: sm+mu_at_elandsys.com
> Subject: Re: Le Web 4.0
>
> Hello,
> At 22:47 07-05-2015, Mohammad Nadim wrote:
> >Hololens is quite new to all of us. But if you watch or listen to
> >the talks given by Michio Kaku, you'll realise that physicists
> >developed (or were testing) these technologies back some 5-10 years ago!
>
> "In 1948, Dennis Gabor introduced 'A new microscopic principle',
> which he termed holography". There were some experiments around 1966.
>
> >In the year 2000, if someone asked what is the hardest element on
> >earth, we would say "diamond" but unfortunately (or fortunately)
> >this is not the case now. In the labs, physicists developed
> >something called "graphite" (a form of carbon, like diamond), which
> >is light (the weight) and hard enough that a 1mm think graphite
> >sheet can hold you in the air (pseudo-levitate!) if you sit on it.
>
> Yes.
>
> >Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219YybX66MY - delivered on
> >October 28, 2009, but you'll realise that they tested these
> >technologies before 2009!
>
> Thanks for sharing the video. There was a comment about
> "connected". The comment about the origins of the internet is
> incorrect. There is some marketing in the speech; the author kept
> mentioning his book. The author worked on the second-quantization of
> the light-cone string (related to string field theory).
>
> At 23:06 07-05-2015, Amaelle Lamusse wrote:
> >Hope you guys are doing great today. Concerning this topic, I would
> >like to share my point of view :
> >
> >"You focused on the robot and whether it would act against us. Is
> >that because it is usually what we see in movies?" It is not always
> >the case. If we take into consideration movies like "Bicentennial
> >man", "I, Robot", "Wall-E" or "Robots" to name a few, we clearly see
> >that robots or androids are not always meant to threaten humanity or
> >destroy but to be friendly and help rather. Of course, if we take
> >more extreme scenarios like "Terminator" or "The Matrix" things are
> >totally different... If we remember Asimov's 3 laws of robotics
> >correctly (which in his fictions are hardwired in the robots'
> >positronic brain), we can see for instance that robots shouldn't
> >normally represent any form of threat and shouldn't be harmful to humans.
>
> I suggest reading about the uncanny valley if you are interested in a
> critic of the three laws of robotics.
>
> >"Do people in Mauritius view the internet as advanced
> >technology? Is it still something alien to most people?" : I don't
> >think that the Internet is generally viewed as an advanced
> >technology here. Of course it is still quite new to some people but
> >I doubt it could be qualified as alien, at least if we consider the
> >word from a strict etymology point of view.
>
> Ok.
>
> >"The Hololens may look like advanced technology as it is not
> >something which has been done before. However, it looks primitive
> >in relation to what researchers would like to do." : Very true.
> >Technology is not something that you can stop from progressing. A
> >lot of research is being carried out every day and there are things
> >that can be done now that we could never conceive in our mind
> >before. There are also major improvements that we remain unaware of
> >as they are not publicized yet... People are now raving about web
> >5.0 so I guess even in our own mind, technology is an ongoing
> >process... Eventually what matters is what we do out of it and how
> >we use it. Sometimes what we as humans elaborate tend to be the most
> >harmful to ourselves.
>
> I'll comment about the above from an internet in Mauritius
> perspective. It is possible to stop the internet and some of the
> technology that comes with it from progressing. There would affect
> the technological progress of the island as there isn't any important
> technological research in Mauritius. Are you looking at publicized
> in terms of what appears in the local press or on MBC TV? I would
> not rely on that for information about new technology. I like with
> what you wrote about the human tendency to be the most harmful to itself.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Tue May 12 2015 - 12:25:38 PST