5月19日15時30分頃アメリカ・マサチューセッツ州のボストン近郊で、ロボット開発に多大な功績を残した三浦郁奈子さんが、自転車での走行中に大型トラックと接触した交通事故が原因で亡くなりました。36歳という若さでした。
Japan’s NHK has developed a subtly robotic virtual reality interface (that actually virtualizes the non-real), and Honda has released 100 of it’s subtly robotic assistive devices into Japanese medical institutions; Subtle robotics moves, exciting robotics potential.
The field of robotics and humanity at large lost a singular human being last week. Via Akihabara News, Anthrobotic is celebrating the work of brilliant researcher Dr. Kanako Miura.
When a giant Japanese company that makes robots starts collaborating with a giant Japanese company that makes houses at the same time the Japanese government begins funding public robotics, awesomeness seems likely to follow.
If ASIMO doesn’t keep improving, becoming more adaptive and autonomous, I see many late nights with a little white robot waking from a terrible nightmare screaming: “Help, Help! PETMAN is coming to get me!