Now planning a December event full of Lightning Talks, Breakneck Technology Developments and Featured Robot Film Festival videos! How might science fiction brainwash the future? Robots are numerical, but can we ever make ethics a calculation? What is our responsibility as the creators of rising intelligence? Get ready for raucous discussion and milkshakes!
A perspective to whet your appetite:
Creating a Robot Ethics Report Card: Principles for designers, builders and users of robots http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/activities/Pages/principlesofrobotics.aspx
What astonishing news articles have *you* seen about Robots lately?
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Presenting the Cyborg Cabaret...
In the last post we invited you to a workshop about a Technology Talent Show, in this post we give you additional background about the motivation and scheduling behind that project.
PASSION, TERROR & INTERDEPENDENCE
A Cyborg Cabaret, curated by Dan Wilcox & Heather Knight
“Love without anger isn’t love at all” - Devo
Ours is an interdisciplinary project exploring technology and humanity so intertwined as to be a metaphorical Cyborg. Assembling an interdisciplinary group of technologists, playwrights, actors, musicians, and artists to create and perform short pieces, we meditate on human-machine relationships: symbiosis and slavery, empowerment and dependence, stability and fragility. We will encourage and enable participants to incorporate robotics or sensors into the show. Bringing robots and performers together on stage, we explore narratives of ourselves through the foils of machine mirrors. Performances will be organized into a three part Cabaret series occurring during the Spring of 2011.
cyborgcabaret.tumblr.com // @cyborgcabaret
PASSION, TERROR & INTERDEPENDENCE
A Cyborg Cabaret, curated by Dan Wilcox & Heather Knight
“Love without anger isn’t love at all” - Devo
Ours is an interdisciplinary project exploring technology and humanity so intertwined as to be a metaphorical Cyborg. Assembling an interdisciplinary group of technologists, playwrights, actors, musicians, and artists to create and perform short pieces, we meditate on human-machine relationships: symbiosis and slavery, empowerment and dependence, stability and fragility. We will encourage and enable participants to incorporate robotics or sensors into the show. Bringing robots and performers together on stage, we explore narratives of ourselves through the foils of machine mirrors. Performances will be organized into a three part Cabaret series occurring during the Spring of 2011.
cyborgcabaret.tumblr.com // @cyborgcabaret
Friday, October 7, 2011
Come join our Charades!
Mark your calendars!
1) Positronic's next evening event! Meet and greet, let's get inspired!
Date: Tuesday, October 18 at 6pm
Locale: Kiva Han, 420 S Craig St
2) Cyborg Cabaret kickoff! Do you want to participate in a technology talent show?
Date: Wednesday, October 26 at 7pm
Locale: Assemble PGH, 5125 Penn Ave
3) Lunch with Professor Illah Nourbakhsh! He taught the class that inspired this group and is back from his London sabbatical for just a few days !
Date: Monday, November 14 at 12pm
Locale: Create Lab at CMU, Newell-Simon Hall A504
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Seeking Robot Ethics Haikus
Ok, I'll start... then it's your turn!
No windows in here
So my bot walks down the hall
To detect the sun
It returns to say
'Let us go outside and play'
Finally I give in
In the hail, I shout
Your sensors require some work
Hurry! Back inside!
I smell colored leaves
As the bot follows command
Who knew fall was here
(Photo from || KEn || )
No windows in here
So my bot walks down the hall
To detect the sun
It returns to say
'Let us go outside and play'
Finally I give in
In the hail, I shout
Your sensors require some work
Hurry! Back inside!
I smell colored leaves
As the bot follows command
Who knew fall was here
(Photo from || KEn || )
Monday, October 3, 2011
Featured Artist: Stelarc
With a lecture coming up Wednesday at Carnegie Mellon, we are excited to share with you: Stelarc!
Talk title: "Alternate Anatomical Architectures: The Cadaver, The Comatose, and The Chimera."
Stelarc's work seeks to explore the evolving relationship between technology and humanity, and how this relationship is coming to redefine what it means to be human. His lecture will discuss a range of work pushing the boundaries of technology, and of the human body. (Event and description brought to you by the Z-lectures)
Date: October 5th, 2011
Seminar: 4:30-6:00 p.m., Rashid Auditorium (4401 Gates Hillman Center)
Reception: 6:00 pm.-7:30pm, Newell-Simon Hall Atrium
More on Stelarc's work can be found on his website: http://stelarc.org/?catID=20247.
Talk title: "Alternate Anatomical Architectures: The Cadaver, The Comatose, and The Chimera."
Stelarc's work seeks to explore the evolving relationship between technology and humanity, and how this relationship is coming to redefine what it means to be human. His lecture will discuss a range of work pushing the boundaries of technology, and of the human body. (Event and description brought to you by the Z-lectures)
Date: October 5th, 2011
Seminar: 4:30-6:00 p.m., Rashid Auditorium (4401 Gates Hillman Center)
Reception: 6:00 pm.-7:30pm, Newell-Simon Hall Atrium
More on Stelarc's work can be found on his website: http://stelarc.org/?catID=20247.
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