Social Robot
by Patrick Branigan
Designer: Nicolas Myers
This project offers an indirect way to deal with these problems. A virtual robot makes and keeps new contacts for you by taking over your virtual identity. Your only control over its decisions is through an interface representing the network itself : a black liquid surface covered by numerous spikes that stand for each of your “friends”. It is by altering the surface of this « liquid », that one can interact with the robot and influence his actions in the virtual world.
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Is this real, where’s the liquid coming from for that machine to push it out. Also how does it put those spikes in there? This can’t be real?
As far as I know, it is simply in concept form as of now, meaning they may have prototyped this model or it is simply a graphic representation as of current. The idea is real for sure, I’m going to keep an eye out as to whether it is actually produced for consumers.