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More Robots A Flurry of Articles
More Robots There's been quite a bit of activity from the robotics point of view today, and should keep those robot fans out there busy reading for a while! The first article I've digged up is over on Yahoo News, called Honda 'Asimo' Robot Becomes More Human-Like. By this they mean that It only takes 4 minutes to boot up, and that it can answer "What do you want?" in a cold voice. It can also walk down stairs... finally a robot that can! Should be funny seeing it in action though -- as painfully slow as it may be. Wired.com also has a few articles on bots, notably one entitled A Bot Can Teach a Lot. It argues that kids find interest in building robots that beat each other up (maybe it's not the robots ;) Robot Wars should indeed be a lot of fun if you're participating -- it can't be much worse than watching it on TV :P However, it should be pointed out these aren't real robots! A robot is by definition autonomous, whereas these are remote controlled. Still in the UK, one managed to attack a camera-man's foot, so the autonomous ones probably would not go down well with the management! Wired has another robot article today called Robots That Repair Roads, which describes how road workers no longer get the thrills of working on high-speed motorways due to progress in automatons. Probably for the best, given the ever decreasing quality of drivers :) The last article is a few days old, but still appropriate! It's on Wired.com again, and called Robot Dog 'Bugs' Inventor. It describes how a cheaper rival robot to Sony's Aibot uses behaviour-based control. The concept is based on the AI using the entire world as it's input, rather than trying to model it internally. Intelligent behaviour can thereby emerge due to the complexity of the environment (the article goes into it slightly deeper). For $40, it seems like a good X-mas present for a close relative! hehe... | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Monday 12 November, 10:39 Reply