David Hanson or Dave Hanson may refer to: (wikipedia)
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.
I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.
I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
