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Robots in Arts & Entertainment. By: Ian McLennan and Robert Dewald. Pleo the Baby Dinosaur. Designer: Caleb Chung (co-creator of Furby) Designed to emulate a week-old baby Camarasaurus Company: Ugobe (original) – transferred to Jetta http://www.pleoworld.com/Home.aspx.
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Robots in Arts & Entertainment By: Ian McLennan and Robert Dewald
Pleo the Baby Dinosaur • Designer: Caleb Chung (co-creator of Furby) • Designed to emulate a week-old baby Camarasaurus • Company: Ugobe (original) – transferred to Jetta • http://www.pleoworld.com/Home.aspx
Google Driverless Car • Project led by Sebastian Thurn (director of Stanford Artifical Intelligence Lab) • Won 2 million dollar prize from Department of Defense • Uses a series of cameras and lidar (lasar radar) to ”see” its environment and react to other vehicals as well as stop signs, stop lights and other traffic signs
Design (Pleo) • Camarasaurus had ideal body shape, stocky head and relatively large cranium (brain cavity) • Learned intelligence • Self-developing personality
Interaction with owner $350 retail price – not too expensive Substitute for real, living pet (easier to take care of) Costs and Benefits (Pleo) • Software malfunction • Lacking true, animal instinct • Unnatural reaction to environment and unreal personality development
Increases human safety Decreases human error and chance of an accident Costs and Benefits (Google Driverless Car) • Technically illegal in California if there isn't a driver in the car • If the system mess up on the road, human life is lost, not the robot systems life
Social & Ethical Issues • People & Machines • Reliability • Authentication