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This video demonstrates an architecture allowing an humanoid robot iCub to learn new objects presented to it. This is done by adding the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the robot. When the robot first encounters an unknown object, found to be within a certain (small) distance from its eyes, it stores a cluster of the SIFT visual features present within an interval about that distance, using depth perception. Whenever a previously stored object crosses the robot\'s field of view again, it is recognized and mapped into an egocentrical frame of reference and gazed at. This mapping is persistent, in the sense that its identification and position are kept even if not visible by the robot. More info at http://mediawiki.isr.ist.utl.pt/wiki/Cognitive_Architectures [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Robot Platforms |
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A TV Shop themed demonstration of a Turing Machine made in LEGO Mindstorms. It was made as part of a project at computer science at Aarhus University. A blog about the project is available at http://legoofdoom.blogspot.com |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Formal Methods and Bases |
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This is an example of how a simple intial condition with simple rules, can spawn chaos (Chaos Theory), and how in turn that chaos can settle down into a stable shape. It is \"played\" by having spaces on a grid, that either turn off or on, at each moment based on the numbers of currently on neighboring cells, invented by John Horton Conway, software used is winplot32 for rules and more examples see www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/ [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Formal Methods and Bases |
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The Problem of Understanding Consciousness - Roger Penrose |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Historical and Philosophical Issues |
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quick testrender of boid particles animation, not perfect but fun. I have used an emitter mesh that produced 2000 particles (prey birds) and an emitter mesh that produced 2 particles (predator birds). In addition there\'s an invisible attractor mesh that interacts with the boids. No paths used, just free interaction. Each recalculation results in a completely diffrent predator prey interaction. Attached a rigged bird mesh to the prey particles and a rigged predator mesh to the predator particles. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Collective Intelligence |
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Engineers at Cornell University have designed this odd-looking machine that can rebuild itself and also could perform repairs on itself. http://www.forofriki.com |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: ALife / Evolution |
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http://www.trickstr.ch A Project by Sibylle Hauert, Daniel Reichmuth in Collaboration with Volker Böhm and Daniel Bisig. Trickstr is an audiovisual Environment with artificial Personality. A light-sound-text machine constitutes the medium of this interactive and generative environment. |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Art and AI |
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Garry Stewart has built a reputation for pushing dance beyond convention into new, daring realms. In Devolution Garry Stewart collaborates with Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Louis-Philippe Demers and UK video artist Gina Czarnecki to create an unique world the likes of which Australian theatre has never produced before. Situating humans in communion with multiple robotic machines of both large and medium scale, a large scale robotic, kinetic set and lighting design, a multitude of robotic prostheses and ambulating robotic constructs as well as extraordinary video art, Devolution redefines the relationship between machine and body. Filled with symbolism and ritualised process Devolution highlights that for all of our technology we are still primitive, of the flesh and live as instinctive biological beings. Devolution is a radical future vision of Australian dance. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Art and AI |
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The ZAR-5 humanoid is a bionic fluid muscle powered torso with two arms and is a joint project of the Research Group \"Bionik und Evolutionstechnik\" of the Technical University Berlin and Festo GmbH It reproduces the basic function principles of muscles, joints and their attached sinews in hands arms and torso of the human body. \"By your command\" ;-) [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Robot Platforms |
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Rapid legged locomotion with minimal control |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Morphology and Dynamics |
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Un equipo de la Universidad de Plymouth espera con ansias la llegada de un robot humanoide de un metro de altura llamado iCub. El proyecto en cuestión, que se basa en lograr que el robot bebé aprenda a hablar, empezará el mes próximo y tendrá cuatro años de duración. Por el momento tienen el apoyo de varias universidades alrededor de Europa y ganaron una beca de € 6 millones para el proyecto. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Robot Platforms |
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A 10 minute introduction to the MIT Deliberatorum (formerly known as the Collaboratorium), a tool designed to enable better large-scale collaborative deliberation around complex topics like global warming. See http://cci.mit.edu/klein/ for more information. |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Collective Intelligence |
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One of our contributions to the RobotCub project was the design of the robot head, face and facial expressions, in addition to the rest of the body cover. This video illustrates the expressions available in the final design. We performed tests in kinder gardens to understand how children evaluate the robot\'s expressions. For more information see: http://www.robotcub.org/ http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt/ [More] [Less] |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Robot Platforms |
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Tyre manufacturing company has come to the rescue of Fuji the dolphin who was stricken by a mysterious life threatening illness and lost her fin. She caught a disease that begun gradually rotting her tail and her tail had to be amputated to save her life. For awhile the now 37-year old Fuji survived without a fin, but her lack of exercise and weight gain proved problematic. A friend of the handler\'s working at one of Japan\'s leading tyre makers, Bridgestone Corp, offered to make them an artificial tail fin for Fuji, the first of its kind in the world. The result was a tail fin 30 centimetres in length and 70 centimetres wide, a bit smaller than the tail of a healthy dolphin of Fuji\'s size. The fin was... [More] [Less] |
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Date: 26 September 2009 Category: Prosthetics, Rehab, Convenience |
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Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world. ECCE, developed within the EU\\\'s 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 26 September 2009 Category: Human-Like Intelligence |
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Zurich AI Lab\\\'s Stumpy performing in a row |
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Date: 28 September 2009 Category: Robot Platforms |
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Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world. ECCE, developed within the EU\\\'s 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features. [More] [Less] |
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Date: 26 September 2009 Category: Human-Like Intelligence |
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