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Robots and Avatars moves into Europe
26/05/2011 - 14:26
Tags: altart, eu culture programme, fact, kibla, national theatre, RACIF, SAT
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Robots and Avatars – Collaborative and Intergenerational Futures is a two year programme of work extending our research in the UK into Europe. The project explores a near future world where collaborations between robots, avatars, virtual worlds, telepresence and real-time presence will be increasingly common. With co-organisers KIBLA (Slovenia) and AltArt (Romania), the project looks at [...]
Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
09/02/2011 - 15:19
Tags: cynthia breazeal, mebot, MIT, personal robotics, play, social robotics, social robots, young people
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This great TED talk Cynthia Breazeal expands further on one of the recurring themes of Robots and Avatars – the increase in personal and domestic use robots and the implications this may have for young people in particular. As a grad student, Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our [...]
