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OPEN-ENDED TASKS. "Robots should be capable of interacting in a cooperative and adaptive manner with their human counterparts in open-ended tasks that can change in real-time. An important aspect of the robot behavior will be the ability to acquire new knowledge of the cooperative tasks by observing and interacting with humans." http://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/IEEE/Lall%C3%A9e_Towards_IEEETrans_2012_1569280.pdf View in LinkedIn

SWARMING IN NATURE. "Ants use chemical traces. Fish detect vibrations in the water around them. Bees use high speed gestures. Birds detect motions propagating through the flock. Whatever method is used for establishing the interstitial connectivity, the resulting swarms possess capabilities as a group that the individuals alone can’t match." https://lnkd.in/d4BA4ZJ View in LinkedIn

HUMANS LACK CONNECTIONS. "Certainly humans didn’t evolve the ability to swarm, for we lack the innate connections that other species use to establish feedback-loops among individual members." https://lnkd.in/d4BA4ZJ View in LinkedIn

"CAN HUMANS SWARM? Swarms behave as unique entities, operating as a coherent unit that displays emergent intelligence, even emergent personality." https://lnkd.in/d4BA4ZJ View in LinkedIn

"TELEROBOTS physically separate the master controller that is operated by a human from the slave robot that interacts with the environment." https://lnkd.in/eJy8qkc View in LinkedIn

WARM AND FUZZY BOTS. “Sony has announced plans to develop a robot “capable of forming an emotional bond with customers. It seems that a lot of tech companies are finding ways to make the human-robot interaction as warm and fuzzy as possible. Japanese telecoms company SoftBank made similar “emotional” claims about its Pepper companion robot, while Boston Dynamics has unveiled earlier the SpotMini, a robot with a sense of humor.”(2016) https://lnkd.in/d44cZk7 View in LinkedIn

EMOTIONAL READING. "A pet cat or dog’s ability to respond to our emotional state opens an interaction channel with high visceral impact, which social robots may also be able to access." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016786551400333X View in LinkedIn

AUTHENTIC HANDSHAKES. “The idea of the tournament was for algorithms to compete in their ability to produce handshakes that are similar to those of humans. Human judges were asked to distinguish between human and robotic handshakes and artificial agents were asked to make similar judgments." https://lnkd.in/eJy8qkc View in LinkedIn

GAME THEORY VS REALITY. "In the weird, wild world outside the Petri dish, the correct decision is not always the right decision.” https://lnkd.in/dqhzC5Q View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this next two weekend focuses on a brilliant and inspiring paper by Professor Jennifer J. Wernegreen and her team. It is widely rooted in a biological context, deeply illustrative on a case by case basis, clinical, ecological and touches on the new thinking that is emerging in life sciences. Specifically, it focuses on the ecological intimacy of bacteria and their hosts including humans. And it could equally be rewritten to star the same role of viruses. View in LinkedIn