Ach, you maroon! Don't theorize about stuff you know nothing about.
To say that dinos had significantly less processing power than 4x700MHz PIIIs is silly. It's comparing apples and oranges, and the apples evolved over millions of years and employed genetic algorithms to perfect the most simple seeming actions to an art. The oranges are layers of copper and semiconductor!
Research into robotic motion is difficult. Simulators are helpful, but it's tough to model what we can realize - it's much easier to model stuff that just "works". The real-world engineering and design that's required to approximate something as simple as a cockroach is still WAY beyond our abilities as engineers and mechatronics people.
Building stuff is a good way to go. You bring the REAL engineering challenges to the top of the pile. Linear actuators. Power dissipation. Balancing problems. Data fusion. Reactive neural networks. Shit man, you're dismissing a whole lot more than a model there.
Dork.
Well, it looks like the/. story review board isn't doing a very good job. The guy posting this stuff about having broken Shannon's Theorum is currently being ripped apart by sci.electronics.design regulars.
His postings are funny, you should deja.com them.
In short: he hasn't broken the theorum, he has yet to produce code, and the excuses he's serving up are priceless. His announcement message was the kind of thing one reads while chuckling.
So, sorry, it isn't going to change the world,/., or really anything at all. (as suggested in the news article writeup)
The article looked good until the first 'proof' point - Robodyne Systems, and their 'fractal robotics'. Puh-lease, I wish jernelists would take the effort to research their stories.
Joe Michaels is the laughing-stock of comp.robotics.misc, his fractal robotics ideas are whoppers, but the technology doesn't exist to perform what he touts as simple coordinated movements. He once had a movie on his webpage detailing how two box modules could move around each other - the very cornerstone of what he proposes with fractal robotics. Unfortunately the top box was being pulled about with an almost undetectable string.
Joe's rants and raves in the c.r.m newsgroup have alienated him from the robotics community. There is real research being performed in the areas of genetic algorithms, emergant behaviours, and neural/fuzzy logic systems - but there's nothing close to machines achieving self-realization.
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Ach, you maroon! Don't theorize about stuff you know nothing about. To say that dinos had significantly less processing power than 4x700MHz PIIIs is silly. It's comparing apples and oranges, and the apples evolved over millions of years and employed genetic algorithms to perfect the most simple seeming actions to an art. The oranges are layers of copper and semiconductor! Research into robotic motion is difficult. Simulators are helpful, but it's tough to model what we can realize - it's much easier to model stuff that just "works". The real-world engineering and design that's required to approximate something as simple as a cockroach is still WAY beyond our abilities as engineers and mechatronics people. Building stuff is a good way to go. You bring the REAL engineering challenges to the top of the pile. Linear actuators. Power dissipation. Balancing problems. Data fusion. Reactive neural networks. Shit man, you're dismissing a whole lot more than a model there. Dork.
Well, it looks like the /. story review board isn't doing a very good job. The guy posting this stuff about having broken Shannon's Theorum is currently being ripped apart by sci.electronics.design regulars.
/., or really anything at all. (as suggested in the news article writeup)
His postings are funny, you should deja.com them.
In short: he hasn't broken the theorum, he has yet to produce code, and the excuses he's serving up are priceless. His announcement message was the kind of thing one reads while chuckling.
So, sorry, it isn't going to change the world,
The article looked good until the first 'proof' point - Robodyne Systems, and their 'fractal robotics'. Puh-lease, I wish jernelists would take the effort to research their stories.
Joe Michaels is the laughing-stock of comp.robotics.misc, his fractal robotics ideas are whoppers, but the technology doesn't exist to perform what he touts as simple coordinated movements. He once had a movie on his webpage detailing how two box modules could move around each other - the very cornerstone of what he proposes with fractal robotics. Unfortunately the top box was being pulled about with an almost undetectable string.
Joe's rants and raves in the c.r.m newsgroup have alienated him from the robotics community. There is real research being performed in the areas of genetic algorithms, emergant behaviours, and neural/fuzzy logic systems - but there's nothing close to machines achieving self-realization.
ttyl,
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