April 21, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
Abby Huntsman, Alex Reben, amazon, Bianca Bosker on Tech, boxie, business, Clifford Nass, Computer Science, David Hanson, different dogs, entertainment, Future, gadgets, gaming, Hotels, huffingtonpost, huffpost live, human invention, Human Robot Interaction, Interface Design, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, reben, research, Robot Love, Robot Sex, Robotics, Robots People, Science, Science News, Talk Nerdy To Me, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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If a squat, cardboard-framed robot with a high-pitched voice started asking you questions, would you answer it? Would you share your troubles? Unload your concerns?
Many people would — at least, that’s what roboticist and artist Alex Reben has found. He unleashed the smiling bot Boxie in the halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to see what people would share with a robot. His work and other research suggest we’re not so averse to bearing our souls to the bots. In some cases, we’ll even tell them things we wouldn’t admit to each other.
In fact, Reben suggests robots and dogs aren’t so different.
“Dogs are basically a human invention. They’re a technology,” Reben told HuffPost Live. “We’ve bred them to be companions over millennia, just like we’re designing robots, we’ve designed dogs to be companions.”
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February 14, 2013
Mohenjo
Crime
Abby Huntsman, amazon, Battered Women, Beijing, beijing china, business, China, Chinese Womens Rights, Crime News, Domestic Violence, extreme violence, grounds of domestic abuse, Health, her Chinese husband Li Yang., Hotels, huffingtonpost, huffpost live, HuffPost Live 321 News, HuffPost Live Clips, Kim Lee, landmark case, libya, myaol, politics, research, Science, Science News, technology, travel, vacation, Video, Women's Rights
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A landmark case in China granted Kim Lee a divorce from her husband on the grounds of domestic abuse — a topic seldom discussed there. Kim Lee joined HuffPost Live from Beijing, China, and spoke to host Abby Huntsman about the violence she was subjected to by her Chinese husband, Li Yang.
“He sat on my back and hit my head into the floor 10 or 12 times,” said Lee, “It was extreme violence. Any type of violence is unacceptable, but it was extreme.” Instead of denying the violence, her husband spoke publicly about the abuse in interviews. Lee quoted that “his exact words were ‘yes, I beat her sometimes but I never thought she’d go to the police, because that’s not what Chinese women do.'”
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