Re: [agi] funky robot kits and AGI

2003-08-27 Thread Philip Sutton
Hi Ben, I'm not an electronics expert but my electric tooth brush runs on an induction 'connection' so there's no need for a bare wire conection to an electric circuit. Maybe a covered ground-level induction grid could be set up. Also you could run an electric cord to the robot. Also I had

Re: [agi] funky robot kits and AGI

2003-08-27 Thread Cliff Stabbert
Ben wrote: BG Oddly, the biggest problem with these robots, in terms of AGI, is probably BG the limited battery life (for the robot, and the onboard laptop, whose BG batteries run down fast when running the robot control software). Half an BG hour is not enough time to learn much, and no human

RE: [agi] funky robot kits and AGI

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:21 AM Subject: RE: [agi] funky robot kits and AGI Of course, it is still likely that the bot would get tangled as it turns thus countering the autoretract.. :( But perhaps this is something for it to learn