How are haptic models used in regards to the research and building of Artificially Intelligent Robots? I know programming a computer with language capability is probably the biggest obstacle one faces in robotics, but haptics seems like a spectacular way for a robot to "get a feel" for it's surroundings.
Japanese mobile phones run on a different network than US cellular phones, which perhaps indicates why they're so much smaller and lightweight than US phones. Although they have more features, they don't use up an exorbitant amount of power (although, in Japan, you can go to some convenience stores like 7-11 and get your phone charged at a vending machine while taking money out of an ATM).
US phones look like the "dealbreaker" phones Micheal Douglas uses on the beach in "Wall Street" compared to the thin, light, Japanese models. An extraordinary high percentage of the Japanese population have mobile phones, most notably young people. They don't have PDA's really, but everyone has a phone and dare I say it, they are practically addicted to them.
Obviously this points out a distinct cultural difference between the high tech cell phone markets in the US and mobile phone markets in Japan. Apples and oranges. Someday there we will perhaps be a happy medium. I predict that, in the future, most people around the world will have phones that resemble PDAs, and that those phones will become more and more like personal computers, or will at least function like extensions of them. In time, people will come to rely on these devices/phones.
Psuedoscience is plainly science that isn't science. Something's outta wack. Anyone interested in the differences between real science (according to some) and psuedoscience should most definitely check out this Richard P. Feynman (physicist) talk given at a Caltech commencement, entitled Cargo Cult Science. Brilliant.
http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_scienc e.html
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How are haptic models used in regards to the research and building of Artificially Intelligent Robots? I know programming a computer with language capability is probably the biggest obstacle one faces in robotics, but haptics seems like a spectacular way for a robot to "get a feel" for it's surroundings.
Japanese mobile phones run on a different network than US cellular phones, which perhaps indicates why they're so much smaller and lightweight than US phones. Although they have more features, they don't use up an exorbitant amount of power (although, in Japan, you can go to some convenience stores like 7-11 and get your phone charged at a vending machine while taking money out of an ATM). US phones look like the "dealbreaker" phones Micheal Douglas uses on the beach in "Wall Street" compared to the thin, light, Japanese models. An extraordinary high percentage of the Japanese population have mobile phones, most notably young people. They don't have PDA's really, but everyone has a phone and dare I say it, they are practically addicted to them. Obviously this points out a distinct cultural difference between the high tech cell phone markets in the US and mobile phone markets in Japan. Apples and oranges. Someday there we will perhaps be a happy medium. I predict that, in the future, most people around the world will have phones that resemble PDAs, and that those phones will become more and more like personal computers, or will at least function like extensions of them. In time, people will come to rely on these devices/phones.
Psuedoscience is plainly science that isn't science. Something's outta wack. Anyone interested in the differences between real science (according to some) and psuedoscience should most definitely check out this Richard P. Feynman (physicist) talk given at a Caltech commencement, entitled Cargo Cult Science. Brilliant. http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_scienc e.html