http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/ en Copyright 2007 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:37:33 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Videos of the newest feral dogs .... Chemhound: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YjkHFKNUWbQ Electrogirls: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xeBQ1uejveY http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/live_action_video.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/live_action_video.html Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:37:33 -0500 1) Email and Upload Dog Tags to your blog by end of scheduled exam time (6pm) 2) Demo Dogs on Video: present your dog as an "advertisement" for the upgrade. Old dog, New Tricks : you are convincing others why they should try to upgrade. Show dog tricks! please leave your dog in the lab, for closer examination. + with feeding and care instructions (i.e. power up instructions) + with dog tag hardcopy http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/demo_of_dogs_on_video_exy_lab.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/demo_of_dogs_on_video_exy_lab.html Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:05:22 -0500 a list of (arguably) the world's 10 coolest robots: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-coolest-robots and the new robotic carp http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/03/hiroshima-engineers-develop-robotic-carp/ Robo-Carp video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=M7YGEVuJ4mM http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/robots_galore.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/robots_galore.html Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:36:41 -0500 This article explains recent work to "remote control" sharks and other creatures. This imagines and extends control and containment of animals in another technological direction. Previously we used technologies that looked like fences, gates, locks and now the huge farming enclosures that are indistinguishable from other factories to contain and control animals, radically changing where the animals would go, the nutrient cycling they fostered and the territorial resources they effected. Now these fences that enforce forms of servitude and domination extend further into the body of the animal... http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18925416.300.html. Secondly, a New York Times article WEEK IN REVIEW | March 5, 2006 Ideas & Trends: The Art of Building a Robot to Love By HENRY FOUNTAIN If robots can act in lots of ways, how do people want them to act, happy or sad, bubbly or cranky? …. “Some designers give their machines a human touch. Dr. Bartneck's robot, for example, called eMuu, is a teardrop-shaped cyclops that can arch its eyebrow and mouth to express anger, happiness or sadness. But not even a rudimentary face is necessary. Dogs, Dr. Nass noted, show happiness by wagging their tail. ''They do a brilliant job expressing emotion,'' he said. ''A robot doesn't have to announce, 'This is my happy look,' just as my dog doesn't.'' This article introduces Maja Mataric's and the work of others in research to do with emotionally expressive robotics covering presentations given at the Human Robot Interaction conference in Salt Lake City (see: http://hri2006.org/). This represents work to "instrumentalize" emotions. One argument is that designers can exploit the sophisticated emotionally lingua franca of emotions to facilitate effective communication, that we are good at emotional readings because it gives us predictive information about what will happen next. Another argument is that people are good at learning, and can adapt and learn invariant systems. Why try to make them emotional—who prefers the animated paperclip to the pull down menus of Microsoft Word? Don’t we want to reduce complexity, rather than increase it. Other emotional views (so to speak) can be found at: http://emotion-research.net/workshops. Are your dogs “emotionally” expressive? What makes you able to project (or not) emotional response? Some designers give their machines a human touch. Dr. Bartneck's robot, for example, called eMuu, is a teardrop-shaped cyclops that can arch its eyebrow and mouth to express anger, happiness or sadness. But not even a rudimentary face is necessary. Dogs, Dr. Nass noted, show happiness by wagging their tail. ''They do a brilliant job expressing emotion,'' he said. ''A robot doesn't have to announce, 'This is my happy look,' just as my dog doesn't.'' Post comments. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/robot_discussion_points.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/03/robot_discussion_points.html design notes Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:00:20 -0500 Mike is about to post the dissection of the F-350 SuperDuty Ford Truck, that looks like it has servo steering control and a nice planetary gear system. Given that this is the case the robopet team is in need of an initial design and some more parts. ASAP. Kev has characterized the robopet behavior and is posting the dissection. Some links to get you going: http://wiring.org.co/ http://www.seattlerobotics.org/guide/servos.html http://wiring.org.co/reference/electronics/servo.html and then the sensors that your dog will use will depend on the site of investigation. Go! http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/initial_design_of_robopet_adap.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/initial_design_of_robopet_adap.html design notes Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:33:23 -0500 http://www.activewireinc.com/docs/usb_info.htm http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/14681 Prelimary sensor suggestions: http://www.figarosensor.com/ http://www.figarosensor.com/products/2600pdf.pdf http://www.figarosensor.com/products/4161pdf.pdf Indoor Air quality issues for further investigation: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/homes/index.html http://www.epa.gov/iaq/ http://www.epa.gov/iaq/formalde.html this is the particular concern about the pressed wood IKEA products, but is there a suitable sensor http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/formaldehyde/evaluation.html And some more stuff on indoor contaminants, and measuring this: http://www.cectoxic.org/publications.html#cabinet http://www.osha.gov/dts/chemicalsampling/data/CH_242600.html]]> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/idog_assignments.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/idog_assignments.html Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:49:31 -0500 First Sample Entry]]> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/sample_entry_w_popup_image.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/sample_entry_w_popup_image.html Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:59:09 -0500 Dog trainers. the questions from last week: + what is the difference between fact and fiction of robotics?; + do the visions of science fiction drive technological development? we will continue to ask these, so keep them in mind, however, now we move to the reality of contaminants in our society.]]> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/what_society_poisons_the_breas.html http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/weblog/archives/2006/02/what_society_poisons_the_breas.html contaminants Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:13:38 -0500