Interessantes Experiment: Tweenbots

Kacie Kinzer put together an interesting social experiment: Could a robot navigate purely by the help of strangers? She constructed an inexpensive Tweenbot robot that would drive in a straight line. A flag was attached to the top with a plea for help and a destination. Surprisingly, on the first run it was able to traverse through Washington Square Park in just 42 minutes with the help of 29 people…

Tweenbots rely on human help beschreibt ein ungewöhnliches Experiment mit einem von Menschen “betriebenen” Mini-Roboter.

Die Kommentare sind mindestens genauso interessant wie das Experiment, besonders perun’s:

This is quite interesting – instead of programming a complex robot to perform a task, this robot is simple and stupid, and the flag on top is essentially programming humans to perform the task instead. [...]
It just occurred to me – not only is it programming humans, it’s using an *exploit* to do it. People won’t just help any old object get to it’s destination, but a cute robot crying out for help? It’s a rootkit for people.