You have to wonder what Her says about the present moment—when so many of us are, indeed, “in love” with our devices, unable to put down our iPhones during dinner, glued to screens of all sizes, endlessly distracted by electronic pings and buzzers—that in the latest incarnation of the robot myth, it’s the people who seem blandly interchangeable and the machines who have all the personality.
Sepios
Inspired by the cuttlefish these students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology built a nautical robot that mimics the locomotion.
“The only four finned cuttlefish robot in the world, Sepios
distances itself from classical nautical vehicles with its
omnidirecitonality and high maneuverability. These qualities combined
with its fishlike appearance and low disturbance are ideal for closing
in on fish, making it the ideal device for marine life filming.”
The way this bot moves made me immediately think of a spin off for pixar’s wall-e. A tiny robot trying to clean up the ocean after all the humans left. 1,000,000x more heart breaking and brutal.
Time to start rethinking what robots are going to look like.