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The Beautiful World
of the Robo-Sapien
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KISMET is composed of a head and neck,
and has seven categories of feeling:
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calm, angry, sad, interested,
disgusted, happy, and shocked.
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The robot has 3 degrees of freedom
for its neck, 3 per eye, 4 for its lips,
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2 for each ear, 2 per eyebrow,
and one per eyelid.
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There's a camera in each eyeball, another
between the eyes, and a fourth in the nose section.
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The cameras register distance and the
facial expressions of human partners.
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In the neck section:
a lapel microphone.
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The robot reacts to the emotional
tone in the voice of the human partner.
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Extract from:
"Event for virtual arm and third hand."
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Translator: Christiane Horn
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Encounter with the Third Hand/
Stelarc's Post-Human Art
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The colonization of the human
body with miniature robots.
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A Robot Seeks Bodily Contact -
Miniature robots as mechanical sewer
rats in the canalization of our cities.
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When one builds a robot, then one already has, in
contrast to when one only makes computer programs,
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already solved one fundamental problem, namely
a robot has a body. It is physically present.
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And we can equip such a body
with sensors.
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Naturally, other sensors than we have, but also
with the ability to detect changes in the environment,
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and also to recognize its own range of motion, or
the implications of its movement in its environment.
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A colleague of mine, Professor Dautenhahn,
and I have developed the following theories.
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We assume that these robots, as with humans or many
other mammals, must differentiate themselves physically.
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If they were all the same, then a robot could use a
model of itself to know how the other conducts itself.
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But if the other one is differently built,
a little bit differently, then the robot
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can't be quite sure if its model suffices to explain...
-It provokes the robot...
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Right, for example. That's one important point.
The other is that we want to ensure that the robots
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try to imitate movement forms of other robots.
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And not just by passive observation... by trying to
analyze it (once again this rational thought process),
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and then to convert it to its own movements, but,
much like how we learn to play tennis or to dance,
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we take a second person - the teacher - and we move
in concert with him. And by moving with someone who
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can do the movement, we learn to imitate
this movement. When we have done that a bit...
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-There must be a certain number
of mistakes, so that I learn.
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-And successes, of course.
-Successes, yes.
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And the idea is that, with very basically built
robots, they simply try to find bodily contact.
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The easiest form of movement is to move forwards.
So, for example, to find some kind of terrain.
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A robot could build a "socially close" contact with
another robot, and then, when it works through
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bodily contact, could stay with the
other for a longer period.
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So, simply that they walk parallel to each other,
that they also notice they are touching,
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that they also notice the other is a robot,
and then that they move together.
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One could program it so that
a robot develops a bias
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towards preferably only robots with
which it could stay together for a long time.
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That would, for example, compel a robot
to distinguish other robots individually.
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-Something like showing consideration.
-Also, yes.
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That's the most important part.
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-I understand what the other is doing, even if I
don't exactly know, and they generate this motive,
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and upon this basis they establish their
intelligence. And this is presumably how
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intelligence arose over thousands
of years in humans.
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That could very well be. At least that is what I
have gathered from reading the literature and
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also with many conversations with neurologists,
anthropologists, and behavioral scientists.
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In Which Biotope Will Robots Work?