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A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots
XopherMV cuts-and-pastes from Wired: "In an article from Wired, 'Consider the progress of just the past 15 years. There are now robots that can get around on two legs, participate in simple conversations, and manipulate objects in rudimentary ways. Of course, we don't yet have a bot that can navigate downtown Manhattan, tie its shoelaces, or even tell a chair from a desk. MIT's Cynthia Breazeal holds out hope that within five years, robots will cross a critical threshold, becoming partners rather than tools - in other words, we'll have friends, not appliances.'" Reader ptorrone adds: "In Los Angeles, CA at the Century Plaza Hotel for the 4Site conference, our favorite robot vacuum/military supplier, iRobot, showed off the tactical mobile robot! The 'Tactical mobile Robot' has its own brochure and site: www.packbot.com. The rad thing about this platform is its skateboard design, where it appears to support various plug-in modules. Here are some photos of the packbot!"
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That's an improvement. The way it is now, most of us have appliances instead of friends, and that looks like a growing trend.
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Some rich mogul should setup a $10,000,000 purse for the first company that can make a robot which can walk, understand commands and act them out, and not bump into an item and fall over all for under $2000. ie: go downstairs and get me a soda, go make the bed, whatever...
Maybe something like that would spur some more activity into the robot sector.
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Everybody knows chatbots and the Turing-Test.
But what happens, when a chatbot talks to another chatbot? Take a look.
One thing I've noticed is that while lots of universities are doing research in this area, there's very little actual code out there - or at least very little that I've found. Does anyone know of a repository someplace that collects AI and motor control source code, and all that other good stuff relevent to making a robot?
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> The only branch of AI that I have any
> faith in is neural networks
People have done some nifty stuff with fuzzy logic, too. Washing machines, dishwashers, etc, have some sort of fuzzy controllers in there.
It's not AI in the sense of self-aware robotic overlords, but still...
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Am I the only one who read that as Tactical Missle Robot? I guess I'm just thinking of the LOCAAS system I saw at Lockheed Martin. They had a realtime simulation setup where a swarm of these devices took out targets. The targets are preloaded into the system so that the device looks for say, a scud missle truck or a tank, and it could have several targets. Several LOCAAS are launched from aircraft and fly about autonomously until it IDs a target. Then it homes in and destroys it w/ a shaped warhead. It has a really neat mode called swarm, where if one LOCAAS IDs a target, it calls the other ones to come attack the target - they'll keep swarming until the target is so destroyed it can't be recognized as a target. In the simulation, they took out almost all 10 targets without any user input other than the original targeting from a simulated aircraft flyover. The simulation is nondeterministic, so every time they run it, the outcome is different - just like real life. After seeing this simulation, I'd hate to be on the recieving end of these things!
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