University robot ruled too scary to interact with under-18s.
Morgui here is an experiment in “how people react to robots”, and was designed to capture people’s emotional reactions while interacting with it.
In other news: If you’re in Toronto, Anarchist U is offering social science and humanities courses, free.
restraint.org is a loose collection of writing, links, ravings, photos, news, fiction, and bad poetry by Jairus Khan. This website has been here (off and on) for ten years or so, and was around in various other forms for three or four years before that.
I spend most of my off-hours working (in Ottawa, Canada) to promote underground arts and media, and trying to keep independent music from being smothered by an anachronism popularly known as ‘the industry’. I DJ weekly, promote concerts/festivals regularly, make beep-beep noises in an industrial-metal band, and release CC-licensed albums for my industrial-slash-experimental-electronic project Ad·ver·sary, which sounds something like robots fucking to My Bloody Valentine.
When I’m not working with, promoting, listening to, or writing music, I design very angry websites, flyers, book jackets, and the sort for various arts projects. I supplement my music/design income (roughly enough to buy a pocketful of buttons a month) by developing counter-hacking courses and moonlighting as a web coordinator for the man.
I also bake very tasty cookies.
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i love kevin warwick. thanks for the link!
>The x-rated robot is a disembodied head with five senses and big bright eyes and is able to follow people around the room
Umm… x-rated? How did they figure this? There’s no mention of it throwing silicon out of it’s butt at people or it trying to mount the lab equipment…
Anyways, He looks cute – He just needs some fuzz to make him fuzzier – Fuzzy things immediately get G-ratings – Remember Ewoks? Horrid little x-rated creatures – basically giant buttholes running around until they put fur on everything but their pie-holes and walla – Ewoks!