Mivlos, the ramblings of a technophile by Oli Mival

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We are a few months into 2009, the days are getting longer, the leaves are returning to the trees and there are lambs frollicking in fields. Well, I imagine there are; I live in a city so all that’s frollicking for me are the drunk students outside the chip shop. (more…)

Apr

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Sex and Robots? Not This Time … Meet the Maestro Robots!

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This amazing piece of engineering includes robot lips and lungs which, together with the dexterity of the robot’s hands, enable the robot to imitate the vibrations emanating from a human mouth. Its début performance caused one reviewer to claim that the robot played as well as Louis Armstrong! (more…)

Jan

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Why Love and Sex with Robots are Inevitable

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In 1984, in her groundbreaking book The Second Self, Sherry Turkle made us aware of the tendency of some people to develop relationships with their computers. Turkle described one such example: an MIT computer hacker who she called Anthony, who had ‘tried out’ having girlfriends (more…)

Jan

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More Mivlos by Oli Mival

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Christmas and New Year is an odd time (especially if you’re reading this in March). It makes us reminisce about our lives, ponder the wonderful peculiarities, confluences and chance encounters which constitute that which makes us … us. It is a time for reflection, and that is just what I’ve been doing. (more…)