Care Robots
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- RIBA, the cute care robot
- http://www.nippon.com/en/features/c00502/ - The initial concept for RIBA was to create a nursing assistant robot that would employ robot technologies in order to accomplish physically demanding tasks such as lifting people. It is no simple task, however, for a robot to be able to lift and carry a person, because the movements required are quite different from the case of an industrial robot grasping and lifting up an object.
- Equipped with two arms, RIBA is capable of lifting and carrying a care recipient, while supporting the back and the area behind the knees, like a groom gently scooping up his bride.
- “The cute, teddy bear-like design of RIBA is intended to make the robot fit in comfortably with the caregiving environment and be accepted by care recipients,” explains Mukai Toshiharu.
- "The tactile sensors equipped throughout RIBA allow it to be guided by caregivers who touch its arms or other parts. This ease of use for caregivers is another essential ingredient for popularizing a nursing assistant robot"
Uncanny Valley
- Jordan Wolfson’s Female Figure - using the Mirror and mask to avoid uncanny valley
- Eisa Jocson’s Macho Dancer
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCkLDprhlw
- http://hyperallergic.com/149424/machismo-aint-just-for-boys-anymore/ - “Macho doesn’t prove mucho,” socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor once punned. And while a certain prideful strut and a slightly aggressive air may prove little, it remains a schema that frames how we perceive and gauge masculinity, which is begging to be deconstructed. Eisa Jocson‘s recent performance “Macho Dancer” (2014) at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s (PICA) 2014 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) used macho gestures like muscle flexing, chest puffing, and other assertive poses. Bare-chested while simultaneously flexing her arms and flaunting her manufactured bulge, the performance was gender-bending cognitive dissonance at its artistic best.
