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Hell, yes: when he takes his annual wash in the shitting ditch, he eats whole fish raw.

Like in the old cartoons: he drops it into his gob and then pulls out the skeleton.
 
They have one of those robots at the local hospital since back in 2017. It's called Pepper and is used to firstly sign the child in and then guide him/her through the various areas when the parents can't be there with them. It responds to both voice commands (in Finnish and English) and mobile phone activation. The app is downloaded onto the kid's phone, and the parents drop them off at the hospital and the robot takes care of greeting and getting kid to where it needs to be.

The rest of the time it waltzes around the place entertaining waiting patients with dance moves, mathematical solutions, it tells the story of the building of the hospital, when it was built, why, etc. It does the jobs of several different people with a big cheesy grin on it's screen-face.

Very cute to see the kids interact with it as though it's human.

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Finland's only healthcare robot works in Helsinki

Robots could bring millions in health care related savings, but experts say Finland is running in place when it comes to developing automation services.
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The North Koreans have far better coordination than Japanese builders.

Maybe it's because they know they'll get sent to the gulag if they miss a beat?
 
I've already adopted a high tech stance. When someone refers to 'our AI' I just scream 'Stop lying you absolute c*nt. You do not have an AI. Prove me wrong. Gettit on the 'phone now. I want to talk to 'your AI' you fucking giblet.'

Goes down well at conferences.
 
In Praise of Shadows

Documentary on Japanese aesthetics and minimalism. Click Watch on YouTube to view.



 


'No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).

The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm
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It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message.

Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness...'
 
Love Japanese minimalism in art and architecture.

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Hachiro Kanno

Discover the abstract compositions of the artist Hachiro Kanno and buy online his paintings between western painting and Japanese calligraphy.
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Nice, I just passed the link along to Dave Clark, the drummer with The Hothouse Flowers.

He takes a quite similiar if rather simpler approach.
 
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