Month: September 2022

SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS. "Dr. Harlow created inanimate surrogate mothers for the rhesus infants from wire and wood. Each infant became attached to its particular mother, recognizing its unique face and preferring it above all others. Overwhelmingly, the infant macaques preferred spending their time clinging to the cloth mother." http://lnkd.in/dUsjUcX View in LinkedIn

ROBOTIC ELDER CARE AS A PROXY. "Six elderly people across Europe currently have a new companion: a GiraffPlus robot, or Mr. Robin ... It’s part of an EU-funded project to use robotics to help elderly people who want to stay at home remain independent past the point they’d usually be unable to live alone due to physical or cognitive difficulties." http://lnkd.in/dRWXK7R View in LinkedIn

THE SILVER TSUNAMI problem of eldercare is driving robotic developments that work with humans, particularly in Japan, who lead robotics. THe other driver of advanced robotics is DARPA, the military's venture capital arm. Both have bearing on the need for robotics in space travel. View in LinkedIn

JAPANESE ROBO NURSE PROGRAMS. "The country could save ... about $21 billion in health care costs each year by using robots to monitor the nation’s elderly ... many robotics companies are already creating machines that look and speak like human beings ... and several versions of the “Robotic Nurse” already exist." http://lnkd.in/dE5v3mY View in LinkedIn

THOUGHT CONTROLLED ROBOTS could colonize space, but the motivation for many for space colonization is an insurance package for the human race. Thought controlled robots are being used in research labs across the world, and remote mining machines are used daily in South Africa. View in LinkedIn

ELDER ROBOTIC CARE FIELD TEST. "The four year project, in the final stages of field trials in Holland and Belgium with elderly people, was awarded 7.8 million euros under the EU Seventh Framework Program." http://lnkd.in/d3xMBtf View in LinkedIn

OPERATING ROOM ROBOTS. "The main thing is that a robotic nurse could be more reliable than a human one. Robots are increasingly being used in operating theatres instead of human nurses." http://lnkd.in/dtNJw7d View in LinkedIn

DOGS DON'T MIND ROBOTS. "Your dog is not going to miss you after the robot uprising. In a recent experiment with sociable robots — who are designed to emulate human social behavior — scientists found that dogs learned quickly how to interact with robots just as if they were human." http://lnkd.in/d6PkAHW View in LinkedIn

HUMANOID ROBOTS and emotional relationships with machines. Do your kids prefer to spend time on the web than with the parent? Blurring boundaries between man and machine in the next generation mean that a doc-in-the-box is more realistic for a generation brought up in a connected world. http://lnkd.in/dYNZxtm View in LinkedIn

CHERRY 2000. "Cherry 2000 is a 1987 science fiction cult film starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews. At the same time, robotic technology has made tremendous developments and female androids (or "gynoids") are used as substitutes for wives. Society has become increasingly bureaucratic and hypersexualized," http://lnkd.in/d9U2VzU View in LinkedIn