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Robo-Puppies

[Question Technology] The Aibo pups display an innate artificial curiosity similar to that seen in baby animals. They slowly learn to explore the surrounding world, before playing with toys and trying to communicate with other Aibo dogs.

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Fuel Cell Powered Robot

[TeamDroid] This is pretty cool, too but it’s yet another kit that I won’t be buying any time soon, a little pricey at $25,000US. The fuel cell is powered by a Hydrogen gas cylinder that is actualy inside the robot so you can run it totaly without wires.

Posted at 11:51 PM

June 29, 2005

Robo-Puppies

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Posted at 11:53 PM

Fuel Cell Powered Robot

Posted at 11:51 PM

Great Life, Great Price, Great Googly Moogly

[After Gutenberg] I know what I want. I want a personal assistant robot to represent me in an increasing number of...

Posted at 11:50 PM

Microbes that can Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a tiny biological structure that is highly electrically conductive. This breakthrough helps describe how microorganisms can clean up groundwater and produce electricity from renewable resources.

Posted at 11:49 PM

June 27, 2005

Monkey Clutching Gorts

[After Gutenberg] As another example under the general aegis of robots helping people, the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a nursery teacher bot. Researchers will evaluate how toddlers respond to their three foot tall, soft, warm and pleasantly plump creation, which is a Sony QRIO robot using Bayesian inference.

Posted at 03:44 PM

June 26, 2005

If the Universe is a Simulation, then What?

[Minding the Planet] Ipropose that consciousness is an example of such a unsimulatable-thing.If we find that consciousness cannot be simulated by a computer, then Iwould conclude that our universe (which contains consciousness,seemingly) cannot be a computer simulation. It might still be asimulation however -- but not a simulation running on anythingequivalent to a Turing Machine.

Posted at 09:40 AM

June 24, 2005

Ultra-Lifelike Female Robot Debuts in Japan

[Minding the Planet] June 22, 2005 Ultra-Lifelike Female Robot Debuts in Japan The Fembots are coming... see the photo June 22, 2005 in Artificial Intelligence, Fringe...

Posted at 09:57 AM

June 23, 2005

Brain Has Particular Neurons for Recognizing Celebrities and Other Concepts

[Minding the Planet] This would imply that there is one neuron, or at least a small group of neurons, in our brains for every unique thing that we know. However, that raises certain questions -- for example, if this is true, then the brain should be a lot larger since there wouldn't be room to represent everything a typical adult knows with unique neurons in that amount of space.

Posted at 09:22 PM

June 22, 2005

Do Androids Dream of Electric Philip K Dicks?

[The Huge Entity - The Pulsating Aphrodisiac of Nonsense, Live From Japan] Ever wondered how best to make a fitting tribute to a legendary science fiction author? "Do androids really dream of electric sheep? Now you can...

Posted at 11:28 AM

June 21, 2005

Great Life, Great Price, Great Googly Moogly

[After Gutenberg] I know what I want. I want a personal assistant robot to represent me in an increasing number of...

Posted at 10:59 AM

Does an android Phillip K. Dick dream of electric sheep?

[Antigravitas] It looks like we are going to have a chance to ask one.

Posted at 10:46 AM

June 20, 2005

Mini Robo Sapien reviews mini Rios vs. mini Ipods

[The Sudden Curve] We've all heard the hype coming from cultists, techsites, his Steveness and assorted shills bloggers. None of whom can be trusted as far as they can be heaved because they are all on the take one way or another.

Posted at 09:32 AM

June 19, 2005

Toucha, Toucha, Touch ME

[Technorotica: Titillating Technology to arouse your inner Geek] Just couldn't resist a little RHPS on this one. Using robotic technology being developed at Michigan State University, women living in remote areas...

Posted at 12:05 PM

'Curious' Aibos

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Sony has succeeded in giving selected Aibo pet robots curiosity, researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratory (SCSL) in Paris said last week. Their research won't lead to conscious robots soon, if ever, but it could help other fields such as child developmental psychology, they said during an open day in Tokyo.

Posted at 12:05 PM

June 17, 2005

Artificial Intelligence update

[Crazy But Able] Just wanted to let you all know that I haven’t forgotten about it, nor have I been slacking off. (...) The next few installments on video game AI will be a bit more interactive, and will require a lot of graphs, figures, and support materials, which I’m working on.

Posted at 08:05 AM

June 16, 2005

GBA Robotics

[TeamDroid] More and more little computers come on the market in the guise of video games, address books, and video players. With each device comes people that take it upon themselves to push them to the limit of how then can be used.

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Posted at 09:29 AM

Japan's robot-led recovery

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Ten teenagers huddled over a Transformer-like robot in a humble classroom are pioneers in a Japanese initiative called "super science", a nationwide effort in public education to nurture future leaders in technology.

Posted at 09:24 AM

June 14, 2005

BIONIC MAN

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Trials on diabetics are expected to take place by as early as this Christmas. The "999 chip" will keep an eye on blood sugar levels, transmitting a signal to doctors the instant there is any dangerous change in the patient's condition. It is the latest development in the field of cyborg technology which began with the very first heart pacemakers in the 1950s.

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Posted at 08:29 AM

June 11, 2005

AI: Symbolic logic

[Crazy But Able] Expert systems have problems, deep problems, because they encode all of the knowledge in the system right up front! It’s easy to seem intelligent when someone has given you all of your intelligence. What we need are computers that can see problems and reason, computers that can think.

Posted at 12:34 PM

AI: Problems with symbolic logic

[Crazy But Able] Different sets of symbols for different problems. But even when everyone is working on the same problem, (acting like or reasoning like human beings, for example) it is hard to come to an agreement on what symbols and rules to use for knowledge representation. Furthermore, the disagreement increases as the complexity of the problem increases.

Posted at 12:33 PM

CajunBot

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] To help protect American military personnel, the U.S. Department of Defense has been mandated by the U.S. Congress to have one-third of its ground combat force unmanned by 2015. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research agency for the U.S. Department of Defense, created the Grand Challenge to encourage the development of an autonomous “thinking” ground vehicle capable of navigating totally on its own. A total of 106 teams applied to participate in the March 13, 2004 race, of those, UL Lafayette's CajunBot was one of only 13 vehicles that competed in the Grand Challenge.

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Posted at 12:31 PM

June 10, 2005

When The Game Plays You...

[code0range.net | Drink your juice.] The NYT has an article on the future of gaming. Programmers, developers, and producers are being persuaded to take the next step. Some say they are playing God. They might be right. "Until now, artificial intelligence has usually meant that the human creates or perceives a model of how the computer makes decisions," Mr. Wright said. "But what if the computer is instead analyzing the player, and the program is customizing the experience based on the internal model it has created of the human?"

Posted at 07:10 AM

Hey, maybe it really is the 21st Century!

[Antigravitas] Powered exoskeleton. Can rocket belts be far behind? Technorati Tags: geek, robotics, technologyTasty Links: geek, robotics, technology

Posted at 07:09 AM

June 09, 2005

Cheap Robotic Thrills

[After Gutenberg] Robots.net tells me that Pascal Brisset has released a tutorial on building robotic microhelicopters from off-the-shelf components. His design uses a Gumstix XScale board running Linux that is linked via Bluetooth to a Linux-based laptop computer.

Posted at 01:25 PM

3D scanner on the cheap

[Bits of Life] Just caught this posting on the MAKE: Blog about someone working on an open source system for a DIY 3D scanning system. Project Splinescan currently uses a motion controlled laser line scanner and a controller for a turntable that rotates the object. If you would ever want to make your own scanner, or are just interested in how it works, the website has some good starting points detailing the basic math of scanning in this way.

Posted at 01:24 PM

Japan unveils “robot suit” that enhances human power

[TechKnow Times] TOKYO (AFP) - Japan has taken a step into the science-fiction world with the release of a “robot suit” that can help workers lift heavy loads or assist people with disabilities climb stairs.

Posted at 01:23 PM

Asuro: Hi-res videos available

[moongate.org] Here are two more videos from my bot in action, this time a bit more hi-res: speeding around (Quicktime) / (DivX) avoiding good beer...

Posted at 01:21 PM

Robot Suit Enhances Human Strength

[GadgetSpy] Japan has seen a growing market for technology geared toward the elderly, who are making up an increasing chunk of the population as fewer younger Japanese choose to start families.

Posted at 01:20 PM

June 07, 2005

Driving Interface for Music

[Minding the Planet] June 03, 2005 Driving Interface for Music An experimental driving interface enables a user to control the performance of a composition by driving through a landscape using a game-controller. This system is similar in some respects to my idea for driving through soundscapes of last year...

Posted at 11:34 AM

Burningbird on Computational Models of Perception

[After Gutenberg] A zero crossing drawing by Shelley Powers, a.k.a. Burningbird generated with Photoshop...

Posted at 11:33 AM

IBM Aims To Simulate A Brain

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] IBM has embarked on a quest for the holy grail of neuroscience--the far-off goal of creating a computer simulation of the human brain.

Posted at 11:31 AM

1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument

[Defrag David’s Brain] Successful workshops have been associated with major Artificial Intelligence Conferences, notably the workshop series on Computational Models of Natural Argument held in conjunction with IJCAI and ECAI, and the series of ArgMAS workshops held in conjunction with AAMAS. The time is now right for a conference dedicated to all aspects of computational argument.

Posted at 11:30 AM

June 05, 2005

AI: expert systems and Cyc

[Crazy But Able] One of the first real successes of the AI community was in the field of expert systems. The idea goes like this: what if we could distill all of the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of an expert in a field and put all of that concentrated knowledge into a computer program? Then anyone could use the computer program and be really smart about whatever the program knows about...

Posted at 11:23 AM

June 04, 2005

Nazi Nuke? Or Platinum Thrillhammer?

[Antigravitas] I've heard about the Nazi nuclear bomb drawings recently found before, but was skeptical. The sketch is here, but the fact The Register has it doesn't make me more credulous.

Posted at 09:38 AM

June 03, 2005

Jeff Hawkins, Neurodudes-style

[neurodudes] It’s not even about a new kind of neural network. It’s about Hawkins’ theory of the cortex, and it is truly revolutionary (whether it’s accurate or not). The idea is that every region of the cortex — visual, auditory, motor, association, language — does the same thing: detection of patterns, representation of invariances, and prediction from a generative model of the world based on invariances. He has a theory of how this is accomplished in each individual cortical column using the cells in the 6 layers.

Posted at 08:56 AM

June 02, 2005

Artificial Intelligence

[Crazy But Able] I’m going to write a series of posts on artificial intelligence. I don’t know how many posts there will be, I’m just going to keep writing about it until I’m done. I have many thoughts and opinions on the subject, as I’ve been thinking about it off and on for about 14 years now. But I make no claims to originality, since I have not taken any formal course in AI nor have I made any rigorous study of the scientific literature. It’s entirely possible, in fact, it’s quite likely that I have not come up with a single original idea in 14 years. I just wanted to see how far I could figure out things on my own, under my own power, without standing on the shoulders of anyone, giants or otherwise. In part, my refusal to study AI formally comes from a peculiar combination of intellectual laziness and conceit: laziness, because it takes a real effort to learn to think like other people do in order to follow their arguments and theories, and conceit, which manifests itself as a fear...

Posted at 11:14 AM

Ever bot be swarming

[After Gutenberg] Rich Cooper was quoted in another recent post, the idea of 100 small military units capable of fully autonomous flight and filled with explosives closing on an enemy target like a swarm of mad bees is truly terrifying. While such behavior is somewhat futuristic, Linux Devices (May 16, 2005) informs that the Gridswarm project already has demonstrated such capabilities. The proverbial “fly-on-the-wall” is now a robot fly spy camera. Peeping Blimp will be coming to a window near you soon!

Posted at 11:11 AM

Don't Tax Him, Don't Tax Me, Tax That Robot Behind the Tree

[Dymaxion Web] What we can safely defy anyone to argue against is that in 2052 or 2042 for that matter, that 3 workers will not be turning out the equivalent of what it took 12 workers to turn out in 1955. If robotics advance as fast as we think they will, it's much more likely that 3 live, breathing 2055 workers will be turning out the equivalent of 120 1955 workers. Pushed by their own particular brand of necessity, the Japanese will go first in this area but the US and Europe will not lag that far behind. In this country, the driving force will probably be the military; a recent look atDARPA's --the DOD agency that funds advanced research-- grants shows how their focus has shifted to robotics. The Air Force recently placed a major order for unmanned flying drones. These robot planes are sometimes piloted by humans sitting in front of terminals but it is only a matter of time before more and more of the "decision" power is shifted to the onboard computers. Meanwhile US Ground forces have been forced into a role of occupation; a posture in which robots are useful for any number of mainly defensive but highly vulnerable roles like defusing bombs and carrying out screenings for suicide bombers.

Posted at 11:10 AM

June 01, 2005

Playground Patrol Droid

[After Gutenberg] Note: The picture was taken during International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) held on July 22nd 2004. It was the 14th year that such a competition sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International has been held.

Posted at 08:56 AM

The future is a chip inside your head

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Imagine a world where you can never lose your mobile phone because the technology has been implanted in your jawbone; a future where elite football teams play to neurally downloaded tactics and where everything you buy comes with GPS software to help you keep track of it. It may sound like science fiction but, according to a leading academic based in Scotland, it could soon be fact.

Posted at 08:53 AM

The robots are coming

[The Eye Scribe] Toyota announced plans to shift into manufacturing robots by 2010. Perhaps more perplexing is their claim that the new robot line will be able to greet visitors to your home, "raise children" (yes, I'm not making that up), and take care of elderly. You might be wondering, how in the world will they get robots do to any of those things? They don't even have a working model! Apparently, the company is filled with positive hopes thanks to their biped robots that play music at the Aichi Expo. If robots can play instruments, then by golly they should be able to raise children too. The first robots off the line are planned to be receptionists which can serve drinks. Let's hope they don't know how to check ID. Oh and in case you are still wondering, the automaker plans to make these personal assitance robots affordable--100,000 yen will be the going price, they say. That's 923.88 USD minimum price. Run for your lives while you still can!! Article courtesy . See the robots in...

Posted at 08:47 AM

Kybernetica.com > June 29, 2005

Robo-Puppies

Fuel Cell Powered Robot

June 29, 2005

Robo-Puppies

Fuel Cell Powered Robot

Great Life, Great Price, Great Googly Moogly

Microbes that can Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

June 27, 2005

Monkey Clutching Gorts

June 26, 2005

If the Universe is a Simulation, then What?

June 24, 2005

Ultra-Lifelike Female Robot Debuts in Japan

June 23, 2005

Brain Has Particular Neurons for Recognizing Celebrities and Other Concepts

June 22, 2005

Do Androids Dream of Electric Philip K Dicks?

June 21, 2005

Great Life, Great Price, Great Googly Moogly

Does an android Phillip K. Dick dream of electric sheep?

June 20, 2005

Mini Robo Sapien reviews mini Rios vs. mini Ipods

June 19, 2005

Toucha, Toucha, Touch ME

'Curious' Aibos

June 17, 2005

Artificial Intelligence update

June 16, 2005

GBA Robotics

Japan's robot-led recovery

June 14, 2005

BIONIC MAN

June 11, 2005

AI: Symbolic logic

AI: Problems with symbolic logic

CajunBot

June 10, 2005

When The Game Plays You...

Hey, maybe it really is the 21st Century!

June 09, 2005

Cheap Robotic Thrills

3D scanner on the cheap

Japan unveils “robot suit” that enhances human power

Asuro: Hi-res videos available

Robot Suit Enhances Human Strength

June 07, 2005

Driving Interface for Music

Burningbird on Computational Models of Perception

IBM Aims To Simulate A Brain

1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument

June 05, 2005

AI: expert systems and Cyc

June 04, 2005

Nazi Nuke? Or Platinum Thrillhammer?

June 03, 2005

Jeff Hawkins, Neurodudes-style

June 02, 2005

Artificial Intelligence

Ever bot be swarming

Don't Tax Him, Don't Tax Me, Tax That Robot Behind the Tree

June 01, 2005

Playground Patrol Droid

The future is a chip inside your head

The robots are coming

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