Archive - Mar 10, 2011
Star Trek’s Data, Not The Only “Automaton” Trying To Be More Human
By Crewman Becky | March 10, 2011 - 8:45 pm
We all love Data and his quest to be more human. It makes us feel special as human beings that he would hold us in such high esteem. Watching the early episodes of Next Gen, I notice that it’s his quirky pre-programmed mannerisms, speech patterns & movements that seem to initiate this quest. In one episode he talks about a randomizing algorithm that controls his blinking so he will fit in better and put humans interacting with him at ease. It’s just these kinds of things that scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology are starting to think about while working on the latest robots.CONTINUE READING >>
