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MIT Researchers Develop 'Real Steel' Robot With Human-Like Reflexes
MojoKid writes: MIT researchers have developed HERMES, an advanced robot that is capable of manipulating objects and environments in nearly the same way as humans do. But this isn't just a project design of a robot only mimicking the actions of its human controller; it can also learn and make precise movements that weren't possible with prior robots. The HERMES robot is controlled by a human operator who wears a remote controller exoskeleton. Movements carried out by the human operator are directly transferred to the humanoid robot with human-like reflexes and haptic feedback in return to the human. This means that HERMES can successfully perform actions such as picking up objects, delicately pouring coffee into a cup and even punching through walls should the need arise. HERMES was developed to help out in emergency situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for human responders.
"... controlled by a human operator who wears a remote controller exoskeleton. "
IOW it's a teleoperated waldo and not a robot.
I know I could read the article, but that would be cheating.
Can it aim and fire a conventional semi-automatic rifle? If so, this could be a game changer.
FTA: âoeWeâ(TM)ve designed the robot to be stronger than a person so weâ(TM)d imagine that in the future we want to merge some level of autonomous control along with the humanâ(TM)s intelligence.â
We imagine. The summary has been pulled out of someone's ass. The article says nothing like what the summary does.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
This is a dupe.
It's now the web version of "Memento"
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Life imitating art. Been there, done that.
Specifically, a dupe from yesterday.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
I think I have seen this somewhere before. Editors, lol.
A robot directly controlled by a human operator. Most underwhelming. Create a robot that can autonomously behave as nimbly and intelligently as your average bunny, and I'll be extremely impressed. In the meantime, this is nothing but same old, same old from the AI crowd.
...delicately pouring coffee into a cup and even punching through walls should the need arise
So MIT has developed a robotic IT mid-level manager. Companies will love this; they should save on the salaries of those high-priced MBAs
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Like the real Hermes Conrad ;)
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Isn't this more like a surrogate than a robot?
IOW it's a teleoperated waldo and not a robot.
Haven't you heard?
Anything that can skitter across the table is a robot.
Anything with eyes and moveable facial parts is a robot.
Any machine that looks like an arm is a robot.
A robot is anything that looks remotely like it's alive, or a piece of something alive.
Get with the program!
This could be a big help as I'm betting that the humans experiencing the robot's true perspective will complain.
"This is terrible, everything is off balance! The feedback feels hugely lagged and unresponsive!"
Investigating this and fixing issues until the human agent is satisfied will make it easier to train an AI to use the data in a better way.
Maybe the bad robot walking performance is partly due to poor feedback and balance design?
To Clown Around With
Or commit horrible crimes against humanity.
This is great! A gigantic waldo glove suit. I'm especially impressed by the stronger than human aspect. The bio feedback mechanism for bipedal movement might need a few more tweaks though.
If there's a human controlling it, doesn't it just have human reflexes? In fact, isn't just the human who's got any reflexes at all?
In fact... isn't this not a robot?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It can't be reasoned with.
It can't be bargained with.
It doesn't know remorse, or pity, or fear, and it cannot be stopped.
You wonder how much thought is being put into the possibility that these systems could end up like Terminators?
First of all, "teleoperated waldo" is redundant.
Second of all, that's still a type of robot.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Punching through walls with full haptic feedback is not as fun as it sounds.
When I do robot classes and workshops, I define a "robot" as a device which:
1. Can perform different tasks.
2. Uses sensors to control its operation.
These points are pretty common for definitions. One additional requirement that I have seen is "more than three axis of movement".
From these requirements, I would say this is a robot.
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...want to PWN YOUR MIND again.
How complex is their contraption ? Can it compete with the 20k Neurons of an ANT ?
Yeah, thought so.
Marvin Minsky and his colleagues at MIT are bombastic science whores who like to impress people with wild claims.
One of his claims was "an AI more intelligent than man by 2001".
Find out what Mr Minsky and Mr Chodorkovsky have in common and you will figure that these folks have a Bombastism Complex. They simply cannot be decent, because that would be boring. They need to screw and entire nation or they will be bored.