Comments on: Tweenbots rely on human help

By: Руслан Соколов

Руслан Соколов — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:58:09 +0000

Пожалуй так оно и есть, на самом деле все очень просто :)

By: Arkangel

Arkangel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:19:53 +0000

By: james

james — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:07:15 +0000

I think this is a great project. I love to see peoples kindness, its cool to think that it only took him 42 mins with such a simple process.. maby in the future most robots will do things more directly related to humans giving them input. maby without them knowing it….

By: mattj

mattj — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:59:21 +0000

@wwhat.
Don’t be so fucking stupid.

By: dirk

dirk — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:45:25 +0000

this video made me smile spontaneously. love it.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:02:59 +0000

what?

By: kyle007

kyle007 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:50:52 +0000

give him a small plate with mini burgers…. Adorable. I thought this whole experiment was Charming!

By: kyle007

kyle007 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:49:39 +0000

give him a small plate with mini burgers…. Adorable. I thought this whole experiment was Charming!

By: F.

F. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:17:46 +0000

The song is “Rabbit Pushing Mower” by Toy http://aurgasm.us/2006/11/toy/

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:40:00 +0000

I am so tempted to do this at my local shopping center, but idiots would either break it or someone would mark it as a “bomb scare”

By: will d.

will d. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:05:01 +0000

this wouldn’t have worked 7.5 years ago

By: amk

amk — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:53:19 +0000

the bot is small, simple and cute. it’s far from intimidating, and people seem to be more than willing to help it out. i’ll bet that as you increase the complexity of the bot, and make it appear more human, people will be less willing to help it out.

would you help out a smelly bum who staggered around bumping into things and couldn’t figure out how to reach a destination even though it was only a few hundred yards away? probably not.

this is an excellent social experiment.

By: labarp43

labarp43 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:26:52 +0000

yeah, what’s the music. I freakin love it.

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:04:12 +0000

this is more a socio-psychological experiment on people’s reaction to inanimate (though kinetic) objects isn’t it? I think the people perceive the bot more to be that of an extension of the creator, and as such, see it as helping him, not the bot.

Though charming, i would think it would be more interesting if the bot atleast had a voice, or perhaps a method of actually asking people itself which direction to go.

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:21:53 +0000

@ jayne
i love ferretbunny!!! thats a great clip. ;)