Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter
a UK company trying to cross the uncanny valley https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... James Vincent / @jjvincent : Humanoid bots aren't good at replacing humans (no matter what Elon Musk says) so what purpose do they serve? I think, in an age of AI mysticism, they are spiritual avatars: a way to explore our fears of the Great Other, which now takes technological form. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Really nice piece about @engineered_arts, the current leader in realistic androids (based in Cornwall, making it one of the interesting startups most remote from traditional startup centers) and how people are responding to human-like machines. https://www.theverge.com/...
“It's amazing the simple things you can do to make a machine look sentient.” https://www.theverge.com/... looks like some decent openness and #transparency from @engineered_arts which is a nice step towards #AIEthics, though a product so humanlike is still worrying. 1/2
You've probably seen Engineered Arts Ameca robot before, which has incredibly realistic facial expressions. But as EA's CEO explained to me, what you're seeing is more like advanced animatronics than dystopian AI - it's a trick designed for entertainment https://www.theverge.com/…
I'm fascinated by humanity's millennia-long obsession with robot humans. Why do we love and fear the idea of being replaced by machines? To find out more, I visited the headquarters of Engineered Arts — a UK company trying to cross the uncanny valley https://www.theverge.com/... …
Humanoid bots aren't good at replacing humans (no matter what Elon Musk says) so what purpose do they serve? I think, in an age of AI mysticism, they are spiritual avatars: a way to explore our fears of the Great Other, which now takes technological form. https://www.theverge.com…