#Evolution robotics

[stevebattle]

ER2 by Bandai and Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA (2003). The ER2 is a small, stout robot with a camera eye, earlike appendages and a video screen on its chest. It includes an innovative new technology known as visual simultaneous localisation and mapping (VSLAM) and can carry out tasks ranging from home security to reading with children. "One of our most attention-grabbing applications allowed the robot and a child to read a book together! With a child sitting cross-legged on the floor facing the robot, ER2 used its visual pattern recognition to identify the book and the current page. By tracking the child’s finger gestures, the robot was able to read sentences aloud, provide word definitions, and play fun sound effects." – ER2: Home robot, Trylonix Corporation.

[weaverofink]

oh shit metal stole tails' speak & spell

[meonea]

I happen to see many redesigns and reimaginations of star trek aliens, but very few about humans if any.

WE ARE ALIENS TOO

[kurthummeldeservesbetter]

Viktor started topping and Jayce was like well this is not our dynamic at ALL and therefore that’s the moment he was like okay gotta see how I can reverse this back to the way it was

[takenbtwind]

I liked Arcane a lot I really did but I'm still going to be meme-y about it

[driver270]

When You Meet Your Heroes

"Never meet your heroes because heroes are people, and people are shit."

–Cid Highwind, Final Fantasy VII Machinabridged

[syppys-den]

"That silly robot thought kindness was a survival skill" FR tho, why is this movie lowkey based? also for maximum viewing experience, watch with your mother

[transentiencestudios]

Narius

Narius is the crew's experienced, although rather temperamental, xenobiologist from the Sal'citaa species. He‘ll play an important role in the open-ended comic we plan to make about our universe, which will be told from the perspective of the Artox Trahelis crew members and Eight as the protagonist. More context and lore about this character will be added to our site in the future. :) Artworks are protected with Glaze. 🔹Support our projects on Patreon or SubscribeStar.Adult 🔹Join our Discord!

[lachiennearoo]

I honestly loved this reblog of mine so much I wanted to share it again but with as a singular post rather than a reply, so more people saw it.

When I tell people "AI has so much potential", this is what I mean. I don't want AI to replace humans. I don't want AI to be better versions of us. I just want them to be their own thing. Separate from us. Intelligent, kind, empathetic... But not human, not in the slightest. Like a different species entirely.

I saw that scene in DBH where Markus learned how to paint, to imagine something that he's never seen before... And it's genuinely what inspires me to want AI to grow. To have AI companies actually try to innovate, try to get further developping the learning and intelligence parts of AI, rather than just use them as a tool for lazy rich assholes who can't be bothered to make an effort

Basically I just want a world where AI is like at the end of Detroit Become Human (but without the racism/Holocaust metaphors and more just equality and happy times and scientific progress skyrocketing)

[kryptonbabe]

Green Lantern of Sector 914: Mucoromycotin 82 or Mucor

Some references of how Mucor's body could be, the moss-like cells are apparent all over their body and are the actual font of their life. Source 1, 2.

Name: Mucoromycotin 82 / M82 / Mucor

Base Of Operations: Kuora (planet), Multitude system, Sector 914

Mucor is a scrap bio-mech, mostly composed of leftover metal and found parts in a functioning robotic body, they are not a purely mechanical being, their core and main electrical font of processing and movement is biologic. These biological cells have a moss / mold like appearance and spread over the mechanical parts and give them movement, they are the conscious and thinking part of Mucor's species, the µ.

As a bio-mech Mucor works most hours of the day, they started to use their 5 hour break to read whatever they could find in the abandoned data library found during a work excavation. Reading the pre-war logs, historical registers and the political and philosophical works of diseased thinkers and scientists of the past, Mucor started to feel anguished and rebellious about the life they and their people lived, being explored by the upper classes who enjoyed a fixed life with unlimited growth (only the working class and the outcasts lead a mobile life in their system). Mucor was chosen by a power ring during a rebellion against the upper class force units in which they were the leader of a losing group of workers.

After becoming the Green Lantern of sector 914 Mucor was able to help the people of their planet, however there's a lot of work to be done since their solar system is colonized by the µ and given the variety of forms and cultures the µ can take it's a complex work that keeps Mucor busy and mostly absent of the wider Green Lantern conflicts, some say Mucor and the Guardians do not have a good relationship since Mucor believes their rule to be authoritarian and somehow similar to that of the ruling classes of their own system. However no one can deny the feats of courage Mucor of Kuora (their planet) achieved fighting for the freedom of their people and working as a Lantern in their solar system.

Mucor uses the ring to change their appearance, complementing their mechanical body with their ring constructs to transform into practical forms that help them solve problems. They're very attuned to the structural issues of his system and aware of the importance of education, most of their feats are oriented in that direction. They have a serious problem with authority and that makes them a big fan of Hal Jordan, although they never met (Mucor has a Hal Jordan poster on their private quarter at Oa) Kilowog admires their determination, but desaproves of their humor instability.

About the µ (biology and society)

The µ or Mu collective is a group of unicellular individuals that more or less share a hive mind. Their evolution is similar to that of the Fungi on Earth, however due to the specific circumstances of their planets and the amount of time the µ have been in the universe, they have evolved in a different direction. Despite being capable of life (and reproduction) in unicellular form, in group, the Mu are capable of building long tubes of communication to share nutrients and information through electrical impulses that can form complex structures of thought and conscience. Their "hive mind" is proximity based, the more distant they are the less mentally connected they are, if they're severed they become a separate entity.

Their mold / lichen / moss like appearances. Despite their color they're not capable of photosynthesis

The µ cells spread in colossal webs that took over their entire planet of origin (Kuora), in addition to that their resilient single cell life made it very easy for them to spread over their solar system (the Multitude solar system). They separate in groups that can spread from over hundreds of kilometers to a few meters; these groups developed different cultures and social relations with time. Early in their space exploration the Mu collective spread in search of energy - scarce on their planet of origin - these searches took thousands of years to come to fruition in a stable manner (social conflicts abound in their history).

Multitude solar system - each planet has a population of Mu, they vary in their access to energy and economical stability and internal conflicts

During that conflicted time, the Mu collective while still remaining single celled life forms, developed different ways of presenting themselves, different colors and forms: some remaining fixed in their place on the ground, vegetation and other substrates, while others having a more mobile life, becoming part of a bigger system capable of independent locomotion, this can be: a) parasitic (they can attach to other organisms and take over their neural system partially or completely - which is considered outdated and morally reprehensible nowadays) or b) mechanical (they create and then attach to mechanical structures also capable of locomotion and specialized designs; some of the robots developed by the Mu are capable of impressive transformations, changing their form to adapt do different environments in different planets / biomes).

Mechanical Mu usually have specialized bodies - the Mu cells take over the mechanic hosts and controls them from the inside or the outside through highly evolved bioelectrical adaptations. Source 1.

There's a social / economic logic to their forms, mechanical Mu are usually explored to work for the fixed Mu, a privileged class who having no need to work and fend for themselves, can afford to live a fixed life dedicated to the arts and intellectual creations in their simulators in quantum computers, some of them live an hedonistic life in those settings too. Mechanical Mu are considered the working class while the parasitic Mu are pariahs who could not afford to build / buy a mechanical body and, in need to search for their nutrients, depend on other biological bodies to roam around and make a precarious living, they can look like zombie-like creatures, but they try to avoid the process of decay by using metal parts and other methods to keep the host body functional. This class is mostly despised by the others for the appearance and the criminal associations.

I wrote this inspired by @incorrect-green-lantern-quotes game, I love robots and weird life-forms and I think sometimes the GL stories could take their alien concepts a bit further... If you have any idea for a GL original character please share!

[stevebattle]

ER1 Personal Robot System by Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA (2002). "Coupled with Robot Control Center software and your laptop, the ER1 can be taught to negotiate your home, recognize objects visually, obey voice commands, and speak using its own text-to-speech voice. The solid aluminum ER1 is available either in kit form or already assembled. If you're handy with a screwdriver, you can spend a couple of hours and save $200. All the electronics come assembled. Once you've finished building the frame, just plug in the beefy stepper motors, the rechargeable power supply, and the control box. Your laptop rests on the ER1's cushioned mounts and connects through its USB ports to the robot's camera and control box." – ER1 Robot Kit, by Jay Munro.

Evolution Robotics "makes its technologies available to the developer community through the ER1, a programmable robot kit that can be purchased on the Evolution Robotics website and at leading technology retailers. Evolution Robotics mission is to accelerate the personal robot industry and help spur the creation of a variety of highly functional personal robot products that will become indispensable in our daily lives, at home and at work." – Bandai to Create Doraemon Robots, by Christopher Macdonald, Anime News Network.

[kawamagi-crow]

I can imagine there's at least two dudes who were *really* excited for the glorious evolution, for completely different reasons.

One wants to be a robot.

the other wants to be IN a robot.

they haven't realized they're talking about different things yet.

[honeywafflez1art]

All that remained... were fields of 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚎. 🌌

[kaneidae]

Torri, my mech pilot oc. She's very old, so here's her design evolution

[adastra-sf]

EVOLUTION OF THE CYLON

[combodactyl]

Next on my list was demolisher from the Transformers armada anime. I found this series hilarious due to the English dub having shockingly good timing on jokes. Other things like the minicons being apart of both sides really piqued my interest.