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Nov
2013

From Terminator to WALL·E: Why Robots Have An Image Problem

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LiveScience posted a nice article by Christy Dena on the image of robots in our society. In my opinion it only scratches on the surface of this topic, but it is a good read nonetheless. How could it not be? It features the word “human-robot interaction researchers”.

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01
Oct
2013

Monochromatic Life in Pictures

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Time to get artsy. As this website is called monochromatic.cc, let's reduce the colors for this post.

The funny thing about black and white pictures is, that although we take something away (the colors) - the pictures gain in expression. Well, at least some pictures do. Thomas and I went throu...

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09
Feb
2013

Robots playing Blitzkrieg Bop

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First of all let us say: We at monochromatic.cc welcome our future robot overlords.

We are lucky that, at least for now, present day robots are satisfied with building cars, disarming bombs, vacuuming our houses and … playing some heavy metal.

This might be the answer to the question, what robot...

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04
Feb
2013

Alaska 2009

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Some impressions from my trip to Alaska and Canada back in 2009.

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