Visiting Scholar
aesthetics + computation group
mit media
laboratory
nanako@media.mit.edu
[personal site]
Hi. I'm a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Media Lab. I'm also a master's course
student in robotics at Tokyo University. I am interested in robots not
only as toys but also as communication tools. My research topic in Japan
was "teaching by showing": a person demonstrates a manipulation
of an object, and the robots learn the manipulation and play it back. (Personally,
I think it would be great if robots can do more and more work, so that
we may become more and more lazy.)
Japan has many cool robots: AIBO, ASIMO,POOCH,MYACHI,PINO,BARO,BN-1,C-BOT and so on.
GAKUTENSOKU is also a famous robot from Japan. Made in 1928, it has no springs and
gears, and is able to move very smoothly using only compressed air.
I have just begun to work here at ACG. Professor John Maeda always says:
"make something!"
work
("Rabbit" is very powerful, but I think more detailed documentation is necessary.)
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