{"id":3481,"date":"2011-02-09T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2011-02-09T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:00:26","slug":"giving-furniture-a-taste-for-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/giving-furniture-a-taste-for-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Furniture a Taste for Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auger-Loizeau is making pet robots. Sort of.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/5198309\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5198309\" target=\"_blank\">Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>To satisfy the basic robot criteria, each one has been given a normative utilitarian aspect, performing basic services for their human hosts:<br \/>\n1. Mouse Trap combined with coffee table Robot.<br \/>\n2. Flypaper combined with Robotic clock.<br \/>\n3. Pest Control combined with lamp shade Robot.<br \/>\n4. Fly Stealing Robot. (this is a pure entertainment robot)<br \/>\n5. U.V. flykiller Parasite Robot.<br \/>\nThe CDERs are autonomous as a consequence of using the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) as energy source.<br \/>\nTheir motivation, via programming, to capture biomass gives them agency.<br \/>\nThey move or have mechanical moving parts.<br \/>\nThey can sense their environment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words: Trouble brewing.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auger-loizeau.com\/index.php?id=13\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-12400647\" target=\"_blank\">Robots to get their own internet<\/a>: <i>&#8220;Wikipedia is something that humans use to share knowledge, that everyone can edit, contribute knowledge to and access,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Something like that does not exist for robots.&#8221; &#8230; RoboEarth is likely to become a tool for the growing number of service and domestic robots that many expect to become a feature in homes in coming decades.<\/i> So &#8230; calorie counts and so on? Terrific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auger-Loizeau is making pet robots. Sort of. Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots To satisfy the basic robot criteria, each one has been given a normative utilitarian aspect, performing basic services for their human hosts: 1. Mouse Trap combined with coffee table Robot. 2. Flypaper combined with Robotic clock. 3. Pest Control combined with lamp shade Robot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[210,916,1030],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-carnivores","tag-pets","tag-robots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-U9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}