Looking forward I think we can expect a whole load more proprietory stuff before some standards begin to emerge, and that's likely to apply both in academic and industrial research.
It's also my hope that in the years to come some kind of cheap off-the-shelf robotics platform will emerge, which will be affordable to a wide range of software developers. This could be something PC based (like the Whitebox 914) or might just be a dumb telerobot being driven over high bandwidth wireless networks by remote dissembodied server intelligences (I think the latter scenario is more likely). Once there is some kind of common platform where people can begin to share code and ideas then I think progress in the robotics area will be far more rapid.
- Bob
On 29/09/06, Andrew Babian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just had a notion. The proper sensory input and motor output for an AI is
the computer screen (and sound input and regular keyboard and mouse input).
One thing that needs to exist is a freely available standard API for these
things, so people can work on them, plus implementations for the platforms
that people use. My hope is that it would give different researchers,
especially all those lone wolves out there, something intercompatible to work
with. It also seems possible that this could be a common mechanism for the
different systems to
work together, in a sort of extension of the Blackboard model. And, as a
lighter element of it, I'd really like it if these projects could use video
games, because they more and more have become very sophisticated real-world
modelling tools.
andi
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