posys - Slashdot User

Submission + - The beckoning promise of personal fabrication (ted.com)

Submitted by

posys

on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @08:29AM

posys writes: "Neil Gershenfeld's 17.5 minute video "The beckoning promise of personal fabrication" Just suppose the video you are about to WATCH may be the best used 17 minutes and 30 seconds you have ever spent in your life.... http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/90"

Submission + - Robots Teach Autistic Kids Social Skills (wired.com)

Submitted by

posys

on Monday July 09, 2007 @01:46PM

posys writes: "Wired Magazine has an article http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007 /07/autistic_robot?showAllComments=true showing how the eternal patience of Robots lends themselves well to teaching new social skills to Autistic Children.

Of course, since Robots can be designed to exhibit only specific desirable behaviors, and can do them over and over again with infinite patience, Robots are the perfect teachers of new social skills to humans both disabled or not.

In a related story, there is a website promoting improvement of the overall human condition via what is called: "The Age of Recreation via the Emancipation of Humanity from the Machinery of Economy via the TROIKA of Robotic Wageless Economy, AI & Geothermal Energy" "

Slashdot Top Deals