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Robonaut Tweets
05/08/2010 - 16:36
Tags: NASA, noel sharkey, robotar, robotic avatar, twitter
Posted in Avatars, Lunch Debates, Robots | Comments Off
We have already blogged about Robotars – humanoid robots that are controlled virtually from a remote location – and NASA’s efforts in this field are developing further with their Robonaut 2. At the recent Artifical Intelligence Lunch Debate the diverse group of experts discussed the implications of this sort of blended reality. This is particularly in [...]
Lunch Debate Highlights – Artificial Intelligence
22/07/2010 - 09:47
Tags: artificial intelligence, documentation, noel sharkey
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We have just finished the first of our highlight videos which document the Lunch Debate on Artificial Intelligence, which took place on 28th June 2010. The Robots and Avatars Lunch Debates bring together a diverse and specialised group of professionals and experts to deepen the research and conversation around Robots and Avatars and ask ‘What sort [...]
Robot Teachers
21/07/2010 - 17:07
Tags: credibility, deception, donald clark, robot teachers, trust, virtual credibility
Posted in Avatars, Lunch Debates, Robots | No comments
Some of the key themes of the recent Robots and Avatars Lunch Debates on Artificial Intelligence and Behaviours and Ethics concern the relativity of humans to robots and avatars. We have been asking, how might we relate to these new representation forms in the future and what the implications might be of this? Central to [...]
Robots and Avatars Vodcasts
20/07/2010 - 16:47
Posted in Avatars, Documentation, Forum, Lunch Debates | 1 comment
Robots and Avatars are producing a series of vodcasts which will be available to view on this site. They explore the themes of the programme, including Artifical Intelligence, Behaviours and Ethics, Health and Wellbeing and the Future Workplace from the perspective of a diverse array of professionals and experts who share their expertise and insight in this [...]
Lunch Debates 2010
30/06/2010 - 16:14
Tags: artificial intelligence, lunch debates, nesta, noel sharkey
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Between June and October 2010, Robots and Avatars are hosting a series of Lunch Debates which bring together a diverse and specialised group of professionals and experts to deepen the research and conversation around Robots and Avatars and ask ‘What sort of world are we educating our young people for?’ The Lunch Debates help focus [...]
Want to find out about Avatars – make your own!
26/05/2010 - 11:53
Tags: avatar tools, Avatars, education, education tools, Gaming, teachers resources, virtual credibility, virtual environments, virtual identity, virtual presence, virtual worlds
Posted in Avatars | No comments
Robots and Avatars discusses and debates the future implications of using avatars within education and for young people; how they might or might not be best used to mediate identity or how we can think about collaboration with them but it is important not to forget that one of the best ways to find out [...]
Robot Resemblance
26/05/2010 - 11:00
Tags: Avatars, celebrities, japan, little island, robotar, Robots
Posted in Avatars, Robots | 1 comment
Little Island of Japan is a company that comes up with clone robots, and to date their efforts with robotic dolls have managed to bear a close resemblance to celebrities as well as politicians, being highlighted in TV shows as well as worldwide news. For those who want a robotic avatar of yourself, it will [...]
Anybots – Work Anywhere
19/05/2010 - 13:25
Tags: Anybot, robotar, telepresence
Posted in Avatars, Robots | No comments
One of the central questions of Robots and Avatars is to ask what it would be like to collaborate with a robot in the workplace? Further, we are exploring what the implications of this would be for how we present ourselves to our colleagues in both physical and virtual space? We wonder how it will [...]
Mobile Phone Robot
Canadian researchers trying to integrate robots into our lives have come up with a pair of dancing, crying mobile phone ‘bots. The robots, called Callo and Cally, are mobile phones with limbs. Cally stands about 18cm high and walks, dances and mimics human behavior. Callo stands about 23cm tall, and his face, which is a [...]
