#slapmybot — Public Fediverse posts
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Researchers are exploring using livable human skin to cover a mechanical apparatus. Apparently, human skin has interesting properties for robots also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arh-fkTMkn0
To demonstrate this concept, they’ve recreated a human face.
“In this study, we managed to replicate human appearance to some extent by creating a face with the same surface material and structure as humans,” said Takeuchi. “Additionally, through this research, we identified new challenges, such as the necessity for surface wrinkles and a thicker epidermis to achieve a more humanlike appearance. […] Of course, movement is also a crucial factor, not just the material, so another important challenge is creating humanlike expressions by integrating sophisticated actuators, or muscles, inside the robot.
Dude, you’re going to have to do better than putting 2 googly eyes on a petri dish to call this a human face. But at least it seems you’re having fun.
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San Franciscans celebrate Chinese new year by setting Waymo’s robotaxi on fire.
Waymo Vehicle surrounded and then graffiti’d, windows were broken, and firework lit on fire inside the vehicle which ultimately caught the entire vehicle on fire. #SFFD
Photos by Séraphine Hossenlopp pic.twitter.com/aOTqL3Rk8V— SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) February 11, 2024
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Philips DreamStation, a robot to help you breath at night, turned out to be a killing machine.
Since April 2021, the FDA has received more than 116,000 MDRs [Medical Device Reports], including 561 reports of death, reportedly associated with the PE-PUR foam breakdown or suspected foam breakdown.
Problems Reported with Recalled Philips Ventilators, BiPAP Machines, and CPAP Machines
Manufacturers […] are required to submit medical device reports (MDRs) when they become aware of an event that reasonably suggests that one of their devices may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury, or has malfunctioned and that device or a similar device marketed by the manufacturer would be likely to cause or contribute to a death or serious injury if the malfunction were to recur.
ibid.
Philips recalled the machines and stop selling them in the US. Where else are those still on sale?
/ht @boingboing
https://slapmybot.xuv.be/2024/02/04/robots-put-you-to-sleep-forever/
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Engineers at Boston Dynamics celebrating christmas by testing robotdog collaborative features and laughing at their failure.
https://slapmybot.xuv.be/2023/12/25/shitscram-at-boston-dynamics/
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A meme doing the rounds on social media sent me down a rabbit hole of clickbait articles strangely all converging to this ice-cream truck shaped android called Promobot.
Grey surveillance video showing a strange looking android robot standing still on the side of a road. A Tesla passes by and the robot tips over. A person runs across the street to bring assistance to the robot.The meme mainly emphasized how Promobot made the news in 2019 when their inventor claimed a self-driving Tesla ran over it and “killed” it.
A robot doing seppuku with the help of another robot has quite a bit of meme power, I agree.
It gets strange when you read that Promobot is that same proud Russian droid that recognized and shook hands with Vladimir Putin a few months earlier.
Maybe those two events are related.
But it does not stop here. Promobot was also “arrested” at a political rally and, according to the company recount of the events, the “police tried to handcuff” it. Sure.
It’s that same robot that is sooooo intelligent, it “escaped form its lab” and blocked traffic for a few hours while its creators were busy taking photos of the incident.
You can’t make up this shit.
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Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and […] have dubbed these creations anthrobots
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/30/world/living-robots-from-human-cells-scn/index.html
