On 1/6/07, Bob Mottram wrote:
This is the way it's going to go in my opinion. In a house or office the
robots would really be dumb actuators - puppets - being controlled from a
central AI which integrates multiple systems together. That way you can
keep the cost and maintenance requirements of
On 06/01/07, Gary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like the idea of the house being the central AI though and communicating
to
house robots through an wireless encrypted protocol to prevent inadvertant
commands from other systems and hacking.
This is the way it's going to go in my opinion
On 06/01/07, Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I really want to see a central traffic computer take driving away from all
the unqualified (or disinterested) drivers on the roads. I'd really like to
see companies get incentives to allow "knowledge workers" work from home
offices to save
Ben Said:
> Being able to understand natural language commands pertaining
> to cleaning up the house is a whole other kettle of fish, of
> course. This, as opposed to the actual house-cleaning, appears
> to be an "AGI-hard" problem...
A full Turing complete Natural Language system would not be
On 1/6/07, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Reflectors have been used on AGVs for quite some time. However, even using
reflectors the robot has no real idea of what its environment looks like.
Most of the time it's flying blind, guessing its way between reflectors,
like a moth navigating
On 1/6/07, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Needless to say, I don't consider cleaning up the house a particularly
interesting goal for AGI projects. I can well imagine it being done
by a narrow AI system with no capability to do anything besides
manipulate simple objects, navigate,
Needless to say, I don't consider cleaning up the house a particularly
interesting goal for AGI projects. I can well imagine it being done
by a narrow AI system with no capability to do anything besides
manipulate simple objects, navigate, etc.
Being able to understand natural language commands
"Stanford scientists plan to make a robot capable of performing
everyday tasks, such as unloading the dishwasher."
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/ng-110806.html
On 1/6/07, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The problem wasn't technological. It was that nobod
The problem wasn't technological. It was that nobody had any use for
a robot. We never figured out what people would want the robot for.
I think that's still the problem.
Phil, I think the real issue is that no one wants an expensive,
stupid, awkward robot...
A broadly functional household
On 06/01/07, Philip Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I worked for a robotics company called Arctec in the early 1980s.
We built a robot called the Gemini. They essentially solved the
navigation problem - in an office-space world. You stuck one small
reflector on both sides of every door, at in
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