{"id":2278,"date":"2013-01-29T04:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T04:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2013-03-19T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:40:35","slug":"robonaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"RoboNaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robonaut\">RoboNaut<\/a><\/h4>\n<hr>\n<p>The robonaut is the first humanoid robot to come into use in space.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ground Operation of ISS Task Board\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0k8YVTrXVs?start=8&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The practicality of this device is obviously quite limited. It is intended as a research platform into humanoid robot presence in later missions.<br \/>\nNASA hopes that by watching the interactions and problems that a robot in a space craft presents, it can improve them to a point where deep-space missions can be unmanned. <!--more--><br \/>\nTo me, this seems like a move primarily concerned with publicity. No image more aggressively communicates futurism than that of a humanoid robot. The fact that this proof-of-concept device is actually onboard the International Space Station is somewhat surprising to me. It is a device that is not designed to be useful for any purpose outside of the propagation of future robots in space. It is the greatest self-advocate in the cosmos.<br \/>\nThe severed torso of a robot has few of the capabilities of it&#8217;s humanoid brethren. Unlike other space robotics, this instance has no capability for which a human not better suited. It cannot leave the ISS, as it is not space-proof. <\/p>\n<p>Things I found interesting in the reading:<br \/>\n&#8216; Better to have a full functioning golem than to live in ignorance&#8217; &#8211; paraphrase of Pickering \u2014 How can we know?<br \/>\nI love entropy. Things get more and more useless over time. The more frequent something is, the less the value. I had never heard this applied to language, and found the thought striking.The analogy of humans and robots both functioning using abstracted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PID_controller\">PID<\/a> is something I think about a lot. Whenever I am on a unicycle or balancing on a chair, I think of myself as a robot in a PID loop. I was glad to learn this was not an original phenomenon.<br \/>\nDuring the Hofstadter reading I was pushed onto a brief wikipedia binge where I discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quine_(computing)\">Quine<\/a>.<br \/>\nI had never heard of the phenomenon of people falling in love with ELIZA. That is psychologically intriguing.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASA to launch R2 to join Space Station Crew\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfhS_st5ams?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RoboNaut The robonaut is the first humanoid robot to come into use in space. The practicality of this device is obviously quite limited. It is intended as a research platform into humanoid robot presence in later missions. 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