Influence

Artists,Assignment,Scientific,Submission — Dakotah @ 1:33 pm


Above is a device made by Alan Storey that plots the movement of four different ballerinas performing The Four Seasons. The dialog between the performance of the dancers pertain to the passage of time. At the end of the performance the image is revealed to the audience as if gesturing a bow. One of the interesting things about this piece to me is the simplicity of materials and mechanics or “low-tech”. There is a nostalgic quality to this simplicity that speaks to a desire for a simpler time with more primitive technology.

parietals 2005 from Anne Lilly on Vimeo.

Anne Lilly (above) makes these beautifully crafted interactive kinetic sculpture that are highly and precisely ordered. Although she uses very industrial materials she accomplishes very fluid and organic movements.


Ventilator, 1997 by Olafur Eliasson by C-Monster

In this piece by Olafur Eliasson I enjoy the simple whimsical behavior that moves quite arbitrarily around the massive space.

I thought Simon Penny is a good reference especially in the discussion/ critique on artificial intelligence.

Sustainability is definitely a hot topic of discussion. With robots to the rescue there is no doubt that this is an attainable dream. I love the notion of a delicate closed loop system that depends on the proper function of all its parts.

transport

Assignment — adambd @ 8:24 am

 

serve

Assignment — adambd @ 8:24 am

“FRP” –  Smart Trashbox

 

Rodrigo Garcia – hop! the following suitcase.

 

Smart trashbox is a rubbish can that manoeuvres extremely fast around a room to catch rubbish that you throw.

hop! is a suitcase that follows you around automatically.

 

The commonality between these two projects is that are both robots that take over tasks that we do not commonly associate as being boring or laborious. These robots are almost analogous to the (I don’t know the term) person who stands in the bathroom of fancy hotels or clubs and hands you a paper towel to dry your hands – they luxury robots – they have to perform their function with pride and dignity.

 

 

balance

Assignment,Uncategorized — adambd @ 8:22 am

skydiverangel

This is a simple robot that balances on two wheels.

I find this type of robot fascinating, I love the element of balance in design. It evokes a sense of awe and excitement. I like how these balancing bots make the act look so effortless.

interprete

Assignment — adambd @ 8:15 am

Ruben Broman & erik erikwahlstrom

instaCRT

 

Matt Richardson

Descriptive Camera 

 

InstaCRT is a project that allows users to stylise iPhone photos with a “real” filter.  photos taken with an iPhone are sent to a 1″ CRT screen in Sweden, a DSLR takes a photo of the screen and sends the image back.

The Descriptive Camera is a camera that sends whatever photo you take with it to “amazon mechanical turk’ – users are asked to describe what is in the photo. The camera then gives a printout of the users description.

These two projects have a few things in common and these elements all combine to make them compelling. 1. They play with distance and time. your photos are digitally sent somewhere in the world to be physically processed by a man or machine before being sent back to you. Variability also plays a role – you can imagine that the current lighting conditions in the artists studio (instaCRT) would affect how images are processed – so too there will be obvious variability in the way an image is interpreted by different people (or the same person at a different time)  with the interpretative camera.

assignment 4.

Assignment,Robotics,Submission — Tags: , — joel_simon @ 12:53 am

Pendulum mimicry

Hw IIII

Assignment,Submission — adambd @ 4:35 pm

This robot analyses your face and based on different facial movements (nostrils, eyes, mouth) different servos are controlled.

Originally it was planned that there would be an accelerometer at the end of the arm and that the small servos would move in relation to the large servos based on accelerometer data.

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AUTO_GYM_PROTOTYPE

“2 robot interaction”

(Please take notice of my lil gut hangin’ out… this gym is for us lazy kids with bad posture)

 

 

 

Socially intelligent agents , the first steps.

Robots socially integrated into society is a hot topic for futurist discussion and an often used idea for hollywood. The ability to understand human nuance, implication and subtlety is one of the most alluring and distant goals for robots. While these more ambitious goals are still a way off it is interesting to see where robots are already entering into useful rolls in society. I think the beginnings of it are happening now, with robots being used on more fringe parts of society, like assisting the elderly and those with mental disabilities. In this video we see some robots that are used to help the elderly in japan, a country with a greatly disproportionate elderly population.

This is Paro a robot that mostly avoids uncanny valley by being a robotic stuffed animal. This type of companion bots are supposedly already being used to keep the elderly and children with autism company although I do not know the degree of use.

I think robots will continue to enter into domains classically considered human. Perhaps baby and infant care is next. As often happens with revolutionary changes the change is first seen as impossible, then slowly unavoidable.

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