While not as advanced as Engineered Arts’ Ameca, this giant 6.5-foot-tall googly eye will definitely give you more thrills. Why? It’s attached to a 10,000-pound industrial robot that senses and reacts to your movements in real-time, lurching towards you as you move towards it, but retracts when one starts poking.
Its creators at Aton Aton says the interactive installation highlights our minds natural tendency to project life and consciousness onto non-living things. They believe our mammalian instinct towards pareidolia and animism are powerful cognitive shortcuts, capable of transforming simple compositions, such as a 1-meter black circle on top a 2-meter white circle, into otherworldly creatures as soon as they start to move.
- Echo Dot is a voice-controlled speaker that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, make calls, answer questions, set timers and alarms,...
- Play music from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, SiriusXM, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.
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As we race to develop increasingly sophisticated robotic and AI systems, striving for human-ness can be limiting. Instead, we should strive for unique, more-than-human experiences that can expand our collective imagination and foster new relationships with these technologies,” said its creators.
