I had the pleasure of talking to Coleman Hodges from the SwimSwam Podcast about my new book “Swim Training Patterns“. Coleman had some very interesting questions. I was particularly interested in his description of reputations. He called them “sacred”. Which highlights the special status they have in swimming. We would not want to swim a repetition that would be 2x, 4x, 6x, 7x. It has to be 8x.
Category: Press
New Podcast Episode: The Sad Robot
Do robots need emotions?
A new episode of the Human-Robot Interaction Podcast is available:
What roles do emotions, affect and moods play for humans and robots? We will discuss how robots can sense, reason and express emotions. Furthermore, we talk about if emotions make robots more human. I had the pleasure to talk with Rosalind Picard (MIT), Lola Canamero (CY Cergy Paris University), Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University) and Douglas Campbell (University of Canterbury) about these exciting questions.
Frontiers Marketing Failure
The Frontiers advertisement campaign on YouTube is a total disaster.
The Frontiers publisher is currently running a YouTube marketing campaign to attract editors. It is a complete marketing disaster! They mislead the audience with showing a guy in a suit instead of a real robot. They show a fake space suit! If using fakes instead of real science is Frontier’s idea of scientific integrity then no serious scientist should ever publish with them again.
Interview with Bryan Crump on Nights at RNZ
I had the pleasure to talk with Bryan Crump from RNZ about our work on the morality of robot abuse. Having the opportunity to talk about this topic in depth is much better than a short TV appearance. Here is the full interview:
TVNZ reports on our study on The Morality Of Abusing A Robot
Our study was featured on 1 News.
TVNZ’s reporter Lisa Davis interviewed us about our latest study on “The Morality Of Abusing A Robot”. The paper was published under the Creative Commons license at the Paladyn Journal. Merel did an excellent job speaking in a TV interview.