It’s that time again, lets have a look at my live tweeting over the past few weeks and see if I improved:

Robot and Frank

Robot and Frank provided me with a great opportunity to tweet about my personal experieces in using technology to enhance the lives of elderly people. The PARO robot and transportations robots I used worked really well and my clients were more receptive than Frank to the robotic companions however, the costs of this technology were prohibitavely expensive to the not-for-profits that I have worked for. I enjoyed being able to apply my own real world learning to the text this week.

This week also provided me with an opportunity to think about the current framing of robots in our present society. As stated in my tweet above, the word robot has roots in Czech and means “slave”. When we talk about robotics and robots now…