{"id":541948,"date":"2010-04-23T09:43:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/visualscience\/?p=473"},"modified":"2010-04-23T09:43:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T13:43:03","slug":"life-and-love-in-the-uncanny-valley-visual-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541948","title":{"rendered":"Life and Love in the Uncanny Valley | Visual Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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David Hanson’s<\/a> robots are by now somewhat familiar faces, including his Einstein<\/a> robot currently being used as a research tool at Javier Movellan’s Machine Perception Lab<\/a> at UCSD, and the punk rock conversationalist Joey Chaos<\/a>. A less familiar face is that of Bina Rothblatt, the blonde at the end of the table in the above photograph. Bina is a robot commissioned by Sirius Satellite Radio inventor Martine Rothblatt to look like her beloved wife. Take that, uncanny valley<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Photographer Timothy Archibald<\/a> and I worked closely on this project with the idea of creating portraits, and maybe a kind of family portrait, of the Hanson robots. After flying to Texas to shoot Hanson and robots at his home and workshop in Dallas, Texas, Archibald wrote to me.<\/p>\n

“Here is a big house in a Texas suburb that looks normal on the outside. On the inside it is robot making company made up of a floating array of 9-12 employees sculpting things, working on the electrical stuff and writing code for software…taking over the living room, den, kitchen, etc. On the upstairs level is where Hanson, his wife and 3 year old live. They they are in month three of this arrangement. There is no down time. People trickle in at 11:00 AM and stay until 1-3 AM everyday including weekends. They are cranking right now, trying to hit deadlines with The Android Portrait of Bina Rothblatt as well as a potential consumer robot called ZENO. Curiously, Hanson’s son is also named Zeno. There is a story on how that came to be, of course…”<\/p>\n

To see more photography from this story, check out DISCOVER magazine’s May 2010 issue on newsstands now.<\/p>\n

Katherine Batiste of Hanson Robotics working on a computer with “An Android Portrait Of Bina Rothblatt” sits on the table.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/tbody>\n\n\n

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