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The Sensor-Ium! Robots, Cyborgs, and Automata
The Sensor-Ium! Robots, Cyborgs, and Automata
ROBOTS, CYBORGS,
AND AUTOMATA
Lecture 4
SO FAR THIS WEEK
Digital photography and The hyperreal
sensors
Computer simulations
THIS We will again look at simulation…the
simulation of life, human senses,
LECTURE behaviors, bodies, etc..
Gordon Pask:
Solartron
EUCRATES II, ca.
1956.
For von Neumann (and
others) the computer
simulated the neural
operations of the brain.
However, the form, or
pattern of the
operations differed
greatly.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
“The attribution of human personality or characteristics to
something non-human, as an animal, object, etc.” – oed.com
CYBORG
Short for cybernetic organism, a being with both organic and
mechanical/electronic parts
Introduction:https://youtu.be/tfoVOGMz054
Animation, how it’s made: https://youtu.be/Aub1vBYhsaM
The full story website: http://themodularbody.com/