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Robots Learn To Follow
Roland Piquepaille writes "Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to capture signals — consciously or not — from drivers on the road or people walking in the streets to predict what they're about to do. As the team leader said, 'Robots that are better at following could be easier for people to work with.' With this system, a hospital robot could follow doctors during their rounds."
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As said the team leader, 'robots that are better at following could be easier for people to work with.' With this system, an hospital robot could follow doctors during their rounds."
Cool. Sounds like we're not far from the development of a real life H.E.L.P.eR.
H.E.L.P.eR. has a wide range of devices in him and knowledge. He can perform surgery (as he once did to retrieve a kidney each from the boys), can fly the X-1, and holds a number of various gadgets in his body -- enough that Dr. Venture could even use him as a makeshift kidney dialysis machine.
Loose lips lose spit.
I for one welcome ou....hey stop following me!
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
I, for one, welcome our new robot followers...
-- My Sig is a P228.
With this system, an hospital robot could follow doctors during their rounds.
As if the hordes of medical students weren't enough! Now robots are going to get in the way too?
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"Robots Master the Conga Line"
So if they learn to follow really well, we can dance partners for those that don't have any rhythm or rhyme to their dance moves at all. And finally someone(thing) that can dance like Usher. Sweet!
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I was always precise, fast, and prone to crashing at work; but what really set me apart from the crowd was, being half German, I was a "born follower". I *hate* leading, what with all the decisions and vague metrics of success. I much prefer basking in the flawless execution of my assigned tasks, even when they were morally ambiguous or made no sense at all. I make a great programmer because computers also demand you do things "their way", even it only a tiny fraction of the population can stomach it.
It's only a small step from following leaders physically to following them figuratively. I can only hope that *some* company sticks with the current approach of producing software that treats me as the spineless meat-bag that I am.
except the robot is processing visual images instead.
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I had AdBlock Plus enabled. And I will leave it that way, never knowing how much ads are there. Sorry Roland. No cookie for you.
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