Ep. 42 - Disney Robots

Tom and Dr. Julie Carpenter talk about the latest news of Disney filing a patent for a kind of soft robot for their theme parks.

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• Disney files robot patent application
• Full line up of proposed Disney robots
• Push Trashcan robot
• Astro Boy
• Baymax of Big Hero 6
• Bibendum, the Michelin Man
• Hanson Robotics
• Sophia robot on Jimmy Fallon Tonight show
• Julie’s chapter (Deus Sex Machina: Loving Robot Sex Workers, and the Allure of an Insincere Kiss) will appear in this forthcoming book, Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications
• Emotional Design, by Donald A. Norman
• Uncanny Valley
• Paro therapeutic robots
• Little girl mistakes hot water heater for robot
• Mountain View “engineer” assaults security robot

Show Notes

• Negative Attitude Towards Robots Scale - RoboPsych.com version
• AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol - Game 2, Move #37 (Video)
• Geek Therapy - Josué's podcast and blog network

Show Notes

• Welcoming Dr. Julie Carpenter as new co-host for RoboPsych Podcast
• Dr. Michael LaBoissiere Website
• Dr. LaBoissiere's latest book: Sexbots, Killbots & Virtual Dogs: Essays on Ethics & Technology
  • For a chance to win a paperback copy, send an email to [email protected] by Friday, April 14, 2017
• New Yorker article discussed in this episode: A.I. Versus M.D.: What Happens When Diagnosis is Automated?
• Frederick Taylor and Taylorism
• Stuart Dreyfus Novice to Expert Model
• RoboPsych Newsletter: AI as a service
• Kahneman and Klein: Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree

Show Notes:

• Cindy'a TED presentation  
• Makelovenotporn.com
• Makelovenotporn.tv
• Sextech Wikipedia page
• AllTheSky Holdings website
• Cindy's email
• Sex and Robots: RoboPsych Podcasts
  • Dr. Julie Carpenter
  • Dr. Kathleen Richardson

Show Notes:

• AMC's Humans Website
• Jibo
• Affectiva
• March 25 report on Arizona Uber crash

Show Notes

• AMC's Humans Website

Show Notes: Aimee van Wynsberghe

• Dr. Van Wynsberghe's homepage
• Foundation for Responsible Robotics
• Electronic sex toy maker pays users for unauthorized data capture
• Emotion recognition company, Affectiva
• AI diagnoses depression from Instagram posts
• EU considers "electronic personhood" for AI
• Alpha Go makes unprecedented Go move (move #37 not 48)
• When Machines Go Rogue, article about unexplained airline crash 
• Susan Leigh Anderson on ethics in AI
• Robots Should Be Slaves - Joanna Bryson
• Facial recognition and race
• Cozmo robot
• Robohub
• Robobusiness

Show Notes:

• Patrick Meier - WeRobotics Drone Code of Conduct
• Wanda Holbrook killed by robotic device in factory 
• Karol Čapek's play, RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots
• HITCHbot
• 1927 file, Metropolis
• "When Machines Go Rogue" article on Sweden airline crash
• Gelatin robots
• Samantha, sex robot seeking pleasure

Show Notes

• Newspaper article about Dr. Fritz's class 

Show Notes

• Big Think - The Mind as Emergent, Self-Organizing System
• European Union document on "Electronic Citizens"