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The future came and I never got my robot body

#chronic pain #transhumanism #robot body

I wish I was smart. I’d invent robot bodies that people with chronic pain conditions and horrible physical diseases could upload into.

This is all just to say that it is 522am; I cannot sleep cos my back and hip are in agony and right now I’m mad I don’t have a robot body.

#robits #robots #robotics #robot body #chronic pain conditions #I demand a robot body #I really like old sci-fi films when they call them robits and that’s how I pronounce robots.

This is suppose to be the character Dennis in a robot suit. I don’t own him, he belongs to @lwbs-plant-pals

#lwbs-plant-pals #dennis #fan art #robot body #pvz2 #pvz #pen

When will humans ascend to our highest form, aka robot bodies???

#in fact why leave it at the body #robot body #robot mind #robot soul #I want a state of 100% robot being

And this is where we see the changing conception of the robotic system’s ‘body’. Rather than being a mechanical assemblage with an algorithmic ‘mind’, the robot could be an algorithmic mind co-ordinating a ‘body’ constituted out of ordinary employees, who increasingly act like machine parts. Think about the Amazon deliveryman driving the van to act out an order sent to him by an algorithm. This ‘body’ doesn’t even have to be constituted by the company’s own employees, as in the case of self-employed Uber drivers co-ordinated by the Uber algorithms.

http://suitpossum.blogspot.nl/2016/03/digital-banking-dark-side.html

#robot body #algorithm #uber

Susumu Tachi feels like the moment for telexistence has finally come.

“When Susumu Tachi made his first prototype telexistence machine in 1981, he was amazed at what he saw. As he peered through the contraption, he glimpsed another version of himself from behind, looking through the very same prototype device. The effect induced a curious out-of-body sensation. Excited, he called his lab mates, who experienced similar feelings of self-displacement when trying the tech.

“It was different to looking at yourself in a mirror, or looking at your image in a video recording. I saw my image moving as I was moving myself. At that moment, I wondered where I was,” said the virtual reality and robotics professor at the University of Tokyo with a boyish grin. “I really felt that this was telexistence.”

For the uninitiated, “telexistence” is the real-time feeling of being in another location (real or virtual) that is different to one’s current location. Telexistence is different to “teleoperation,” which sees the operator electronically control another machine using a remote control. With the latter, there is no sense of being in the place.

Tachi said he came up with the concept of “telexistence” in 1980 and corroborated his discovery with a publication in Japanese in 1982, and then in English in 1984. Over in the US, “telepresence,” which is similar to “telexistence,” was coined by Marvin Minsky, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Tachi has written that while they are similar, telexistence has more focus on make a user feel like they actually inhabit the virtual space they're working in.”