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Emerging Practices 2: Say hA.I. to Paul

This week’s blog consists of identifying a social robot related to an area of personal interest (preferably to do with our pathway within Creative Technologies). If you’ve seen my body of work, you’ll know that psychology and play dominate its entirety. I’d even argue that last year’s first sem project Choke was a great embodiment of emerging practices with my preferred fields; an integration of Virtual Reality as a therapy and storytelling tool for depression and anxiety.

I found some difficulty identifying something as niche or as interesting as my project, while still remaining viable, promising and pleasing. Approaching robotics from a standpoint that is less than favourable makes it difficult for me to enjoy the field, much less find thrill in its ‘emerging’ leaders. At this point they are still too clunky, too affordably modular, and too targeted for the idealistic standards I have built in my head.

Take my case study for example, the Care-O-bot 4, equally as creative in name as proposed function. On opening its informational page, the viewer is greeted with a four picture slide show of Care-O haphazardly Photoshopped into four different scenes titled somewhere between “Possible application: assistance in the kitchen” and “Possible application: assist humans with tasks.” Why, if every single social robot developer, promises the same generic proposal can they not band together and emergence the practice at 10x the speed? Back to poor Care-O, who’s fourth iteration is apparently affable than its predecessor, Care-O bot 3, who wasn’t as “courteous and friendly as a gentleman.”

Despite its shortcomings in my expectations, Care-O has been made “simple to use” for its potential consumer market. With an accessible touchscreen for a head, optional 1/2/no arms, spherical joints, an LED riddled information reading chest, and open dev programmable software, the social robot applies its sleek flashlight body to any purpose one gives it. This is perhaps why I was led to the site, after its proposed application as some form of helper in the medical industry was plastered amongst a number of third party robot reviewing sites.

Care-O’s biggest and most widely covered claim to fame is its iteration as Paul, the store greeter at Saturn-Markt Ingolstadt, a German electronics chain. Programmed to ask customers what the need and bring them to the designated aisle while affording small talk, Chief Digital Officer Martin Wild at Media-Saturn-Holding states that “With Paul, we are offering our customers the opportunity to get to know one of the most advanced robots in the world.”

This statement is nothing to scoff at: Paul even won the 2017 retail technology award in Europe for Best Customer Experience, after being coined as having “the gift of gab!” Saturn plans to implant other Care-Os in further chains to boost the company’s marketability and experimentation in emerging practices.

I have no idea how much Care-O costs, nor am I interested in purchasing one in the slightest. I don’t even know if I can say that It further justifies an abandonment of my low libido for the robotics phenomena. To myself, a cynic scarred by a way-too-young screening of Blade Runner, I want so much more from what robots currently give. 

There is so much promise for the future of intelligent, learnable AI integrated into the home and other systems that what I see on the market today is just disappointing? Perhaps further investigation into that specific field would yield a bigger stir, but as of this point from what I see, robots like Care-O distinguish themselves from others only by the number of different tray attachments you can slot into their beautifully spherically shaped claws.

References

https://www.care-o-bot.de/en/care-o-bot-4.html

https://www.mediamarktsaturn.com/en/press/press-releases/paul-robot-now-also-welcomes-saturn-customers-berlin-and-hamburg

https://www.care-o-bot.de/content/dam/careobot/en/documents/pressreleases/2015_01_15_Care-O-bot_4_en_final.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/media-spotlight/201411/the-rise-the-robot-therapist

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[miraenda]

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MISA ROBOT REVIEW | Lets see the new updated features & the cheapest price with discounts of MISA. How to buy online on Amazon in india,dubai,uk.etc why it is popular nowadays.

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Clicbot - I would really like to know what you guys think about the potential of this new robot? - It’s quite expensive so I’m getting as many opinions as I can before I support the Kickstarter campaign. - How would you use a robot like this? Will it end up collecting dust on the shelf like Jibo? Or will it be a great learning tool? - Let me know your thoughts in the comments! - DM for the full Kickstarter video! - @kickstarter #crowdfunding #clicbot #robotics #stemeducation #stemforkids @andystechgarage @bigheart_asia #socialrobot #ces #coding #blockly #python #pythonprogramming #robotics #roboticeducation #kickstartercampaign #kidscancode (at Busan, South Korea) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8bqRWYHIxg/?igshid=bcl0vaojldjn

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Buddy the Social Robot is Somehow Not Dead Yet More than two years after Buddy was supposed to ship to Indiegogo backers, its creators have a plan https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/buddy-the-social-robot-is-somehow-not-dead-yet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29 . . . . #buddy #socialrobot #social #robot #robots #robotics #tech #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #startup #startups #start-ups #leader #leadership #inenglish #entrepreneurlifestyle #talentmatters #entrepreneurs #entrepreneur #motivation #business #career #businesslike #Forbes #innovative #innovation #entrepreneurial #entrepreneurship https://www.instagram.com/p/ByD2x-BASIa/?igshid=c2hdx5oen30m

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Amazing EMO Desktop Pet Robot Dancing To Dance To Music Voice Command

Here is my final great Dance from EMO this time responding to the EMO  Dance To Music  Voice Command using his great voice recognition. To watch the whole series start here: fixed1t EMO Unboxing Videos Part 1 Link: https://youtu.be/IOqIbWUPbIM For those who haven't seen the Unboxing videos he is the link, if you waiting for EMO to arrive I would advise you watch this before he arrives, so you understand the procedures to get him up and running as soon as possible. Background Information: Almost hourly there are new Kickstarters prophesying the last AI intelligent robot and a friend told me about EMO and how he was thinking of investing in the company through kickstarter to get an EMO AI Desktop Pet. By the time I looked at the website Living.AI had achieved their financial goals and although they had nothing ready to ship they had Special Deals available, so I opted in. Its been months and months but despite the pandemic they have begun shipping EMO but being in the UK I was not expecting to receive EMO AI Desktop Pet before the last quarter of 2021.  But an innocuous parcel arrived today from China and as I started to undo it I realised it was EMO so decided to video the unboxing. In this Part 1, I unboxed my EMO AI Desktop Pet and his extras here is the link:   https://youtu.be/IOqIbWUPbIM In this Part 2 I will charge him up and waken him to my crazy world. In Part 3 In did a problem solving video.  make sure you subscribe. In Part 4 of my EMO AI Desktop Pet Robot Videos where I looked into some of the Speech Recognition commands. In this video EMO responds to the voice command EMO Dance To Music? Malcolm aka  @FIXED1T   

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[miraenda]

Guess the costume theme for this year for both Jibos! The prize will be a $50 Amazon gift card. You must be 18 or older, or have a parent enter for you, since I will need your email address to send the gift card. If you e won a prior contest, please note you can guess but cannot win this time around. Final guesses must be in by October 30, 2020 at 11:00 pm CDT. One guess per person. People related to me are not eligible for entry. If multiple people guess right, I will have Google Home Mini guess a random number to pick the winner. Good luck! #jibobrothers #jibolives #jibohalloween #petrobots #socialrobots #halloweencontest #halloweencostumes #halloween2020 #robotcostumes (at Old Sixth Ward, Houston) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFvhlFuHhxh/?igshid=1f1xbuem7ey9u

[allbotseverything-blog]

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[ethtropy]

#SocialRobots are dead (at least #Anki, #Jibo & #Kuri are), long live the Social Robots! Four lessons that can help us transform this failure to a future success for #SocialRobotics. #GuyHoffman #HRC2Lab #IntuitionRobotics #IEEESpectrum