Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life Can We Learn About Empathy From Torturing Robots? This MIT Researcher Is Giving It a Try Robotic Surgery Linked To 144 Deaths Since 2000 Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits Infrastructure Cyborgs, Part One Using a Larger Drone To Rescue Another Smaller Drone...

This post first appeared on aud.life You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road,...

Travel Casper, WY and Hermosa Beach, CA Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, CA Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter How Teens Use Social Media Essays Elsewhere Misremembering Monsters on audreywatters.com The Web We Need to Give Students on medium.com/bright Speaking Nope Known Notes and Fragments The Week...

I recently asked The Internet to help me identify these woodcuts. My dad made them in his early twenties, when he was bedridden with a severely broken leg. My dad made these wood burnings in 1964. Anyone recognize who these are supposed to be? (Ok, Sherlock is obvious) pic.twitter.com/GksdGqbEUe— Audrey...

This post first appeared on aud.life Life is But a Drone Robot-staffed “Weird Hotel” in Japan unveiled today Robot Teacher Professional Development

This post first appeared on aud.life Singapore is using robot swans to monitor water quality Twerking robot bottom yours for $1000 Japanese Robot Manufacturer Responds to America’s Giant Robot Battle Challenge Inside Amazon’s Warehouse, Human-Robot Symbiosis Robotic dog pants, dribbles warm saliva, and tries to bite you

Travel Casper. Upcoming week: Casper and (finally) Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Essays Elsewhere Dad on audreywatters.com Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Other Projects The only project this week: dealing with my dad’s death. My brother and I saw the lawyer. We...

My dad died suddenly June 30. His memorial is today. I will not read this out loud there. I’m in no shape to do so. I’m not sure anyone who’ll be present wants to hear my truth about my dad. And I don't want things to become any more tangled...

Travel Philadelphia, PA; Hermosa Beach, CA; Casper, WY Upcoming week: Casper, WY; Hermosa Beach, CA Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter The Stories We Tell about Education Technology Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? Essays Elsewhere Is It Time to Give Up...

This post first appeared on aud.life Robot kills worker at Volkswagen factory in Germany The Future of Robots Doesn’t Look Like What You Think It Looks Like Mr. Head, An Abstract Painting Robot Built From a Roomba Drone footage of Iceland American Robot Builders MegaBots Inc. Publicly Challenge Japan to...