{"id":2174,"date":"2009-04-15T05:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2009-04-15T05:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:57:06","slug":"r1d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2174","title":{"rendered":"R1D1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweenbots.com\/\">Tweenbots<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.<\/p>\n<p>Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/tweenbots.html\">Schneier<\/a> notes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a measure of our restored sanity that no one called the TSA. Or maybe it&#8217;s just that no one has tried this in Boston yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweenbots In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}