• The Good Thing About Robots
  

   

  Thymio is an educational robot used in schools in Switzerland and France to teach primary schoolchildren programming as well as a basic understanding of technology. It was developed together by EPFL and ECAL in Lausanne. In a recent workshop, its designers and Media and Interaction Design students at ECAL put it through its paces. I  (sl)

  (Image and film: Thymio meets ECAL)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Uncanny Valley
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Uncanny Valley
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  Uncanny Valley?

  When empathy turns to revulsion

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Good Thing About Robots

  New animated film from ECAL

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  A Dog’s Life

  Robots that were made to be loved

  Text: Claire L. Evans
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Nothing Can Harm Them

  Synthetic bees by Greenpeace

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  The Eye of the Swarm

  Superflux’s Drone Aviary

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Machines of Loving Grace

  The city as a distributed robot & the omnipresent intelligence of data networks

  Text: Sam Jacob
• FOUND

  FOUND

  In our own image

  Law and order in robotics

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  The Bionic Man

  Hugh Herr, head of Biomechatronics at MIT

  Text: Sara Faezypour
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  A Kind Of Magic

  A conversation about losing control over our own technology

  Text: Crystal Bennes
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Cyber Sculptors

  Kram/Weisshaar’s Robochop project

  Text: Rob Wilson
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Otherness of the Machine

  Jan Willmann from ETH Zurich on robotics in architecture

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Tug Bugs

  Microbots with superstrength
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Matter Design's

  Best of commercial robotic fabrication innovation

  Text: Brandon Clifford, Wes McGee
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Forever Alone

  One small step for a robot...

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Katarzyna Krakowiak

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XXVI. Robo-Hunting

  Text: Klaus
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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