Robotics as Culture of Mankind

CULTURAL ROBOTICS: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of "Cultural Robotics" with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between humans and robots is explored. Based on the cultural values of the robotics developers, and the learning ability of current robots, cultural attributes in this re...

The History of Mankind

The birth of mankind.

To cite: Smith L. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:69–70. BACKGROUND For over a century, between 1540 and 1654, one piece of medical literature, The Byrth of Mankynde, was what would now be described as a bestseller and a huge commercial success. This is hardly surprising, as its contents offered information on some of the secrets of the human body that could transform the fortunes of the...

Fuzzy Logic for Culture-aware Robotics

In the context of culture-aware robotics, we propose a method for the explicit, on-line mapping between cultural variables and robot behaviour parameters which relies on the linguistic variable formalism, fuzzy clustering and the principles of fuzzy controllers. As a case study, we consider the adaptation of the Human-Robot conversational distance to Hofstede’s cultural dimension of Individualism.

MANKIND: A General Description

In this paper we present an outline of the MANKIND project: MANKIND is an acronym for Multimedia Applied to Networked Knowledge-transfer Introduces New Dimensions. It is an ambitious undertaking that combines know-how obtained through extensive research and efforts in network based training and education with work on digital libraries and the development of the advanced WWW server system Hyperw...