Probing Question: Where are all the cool robots?

reply to post by TheRedneck

remember this: they need to understand body language and facial expressions as well.

*shrug*

www.physorg.com/news158151870.html

Content from external source:
"The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it's slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. "

Or for those who prefer video, here's a US grup doing something similar:Einstein robot



The point here is that these things don't need to be programmed. Create a neural network, give it a feedback system and the network will teach itself how to do all the things that we as human beings are able to do.

I don't suppose many of the robotics researchers realize it, but what they're doing is creating life.

reply to post by TheRedneck


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But for any machine to mimic the actions of humans enough to act as our general servants, a'la R2-D2, C3PO, Robbie, Data... they have to be able to communicate on our level, even if that level is filled with flaws.

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you build a computer that is stationary ; for fuel and up/down loading of path/task/sightglass .

3 class's of robots that plug in , up/down load data for path , see the world as it is ( sightglass) , do the data (task) , and return after failing or success .

the operator talks to the computer ; op loads task , the computer adds path and talks to the robot , the robot is the sensors , arms and ears of the computer .
during the up/down load phase ... tasks are deleted from the task list in the computer or rescheduled for another try , the vertual world is updated as to path profile changes in the real world .


MDI = manual data input : remote control is not a robot , guided devices with MDI capablitities are decades if not hundreds of years away