http://www.starchamber.com/2009/11/the-difference-between-japanese-and-us-robotics.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: wise crowds, accelerated design, swarm robotics, synthetic biology. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.starchamber.com/2009/11/the-difference-between-japanese-and-us-robotics.html/comment-page-1#comment-149141 St. Frank Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:51:19 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3537#comment-149141 Does it really matter if your new Robot overlord has a smiley face or not? To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis, When the Robot Apocolypse comes to America, it will be wrapped in a WalMart bag and carring an iPhone. Does it really matter if your new Robot overlord has a smiley face or not? To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis, When the Robot Apocolypse comes to America, it will be wrapped in a WalMart bag and carring an iPhone.

]]> http://www.starchamber.com/2009/11/the-difference-between-japanese-and-us-robotics.html/comment-page-1#comment-148782 Ned Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:12:13 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3537#comment-148782 You're right! Notice the kicking in the video. Always with the kicking, these Boston Dynamics people (remember poor Big Dog). There's some real passive aggressive behavior going on there. <em>"We'll demonstrate the robot's stability by *CRUNCH* kicking it and *WACK* showing it who's boss!"</em> Don't they realize it's only going to be angrier when it becomes fully sentient and all-powerful? You’re right! Notice the kicking in the video. Always with the kicking, these Boston Dynamics people (remember poor Big Dog). There’s some real passive aggressive behavior going on there. “We’ll demonstrate the robot’s stability by *CRUNCH* kicking it and *WACK* showing it who’s boss!” Don’t they realize it’s only going to be angrier when it becomes fully sentient and all-powerful?

]]> http://www.starchamber.com/2009/11/the-difference-between-japanese-and-us-robotics.html/comment-page-1#comment-148755 Mike O Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:54 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3537#comment-148755 It's like the Americans are making their walkers purposely non-human. I think it all goes back to the whole Frankenstein/Luddite reaction the West has to technology -- if we make the robots look human, they'll take over the world. The fact that the Japanese don't share this fear, despite having been at the receiving end of Western technology, means that they will always be ahead of us in robotics. It’s like the Americans are making their walkers purposely non-human. I think it all goes back to the whole Frankenstein/Luddite reaction the West has to technology — if we make the robots look human, they’ll take over the world. The fact that the Japanese don’t share this fear, despite having been at the receiving end of Western technology, means that they will always be ahead of us in robotics.

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