On 9 April 2012 14:53, Tom Allen wrote:
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> @Ben - That's a pretty cool concept. I'd certainly thought about
> projecting goals on the floor/walls, but not so much about "gamification".
> I was thinking this kind of tracking, quantifying, and showing goals could
> be helpful for disabled people. F
@Victor - I don't think robotic cooking is going to be anywhere near state
of the art for decades, unless you're happy with microwaved TV dinners?
Optimising the state of your home is definitely on the agenda, but I'd see
this robot as the sensing and control parts of the feedback loop, not the
pla
Ben,
Have you ever heard of the thing they call "marriage"? It works kinda like
that, but better.
:P
Clifford Heath.
On 09/04/2012, at 1:22 PM, Ben Sand wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while, and I've finally come up with
> something I want this robot to do.
>
> Na
Hi Tom,
I've been thinking about this for a while, and I've finally come up with
something I want this robot to do.
Nag me, reward me and quantify my success.
This a robot that could follow me around the house and give me rewards for
doing chores. If it can't do them itself, it can observe me do
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Tom Allen wrote:
> Hi David, sounds like an interesting project but I wonder about its
> usefulness.
Robotic cars have the potential to automate driving and reduce road deaths
and accidents.
I'm not sure that you have ever seen people texting with their mobiles
Hi David, sounds like an interesting project but I wonder about its
usefulness. Have you actually asked any of these lower-end manufacturers
whether they'd use it? How will you deal with the fact that most cars are
not drive-by-wire? Google's car (and everything even remotely successful in
the DARP
Hi Tom,
I have an Australian project to build a Driverless/Automated
car:
- https://bitbucket.org/djlyon/smp-driverless-car-robot
The project was started a year or so ago - and it's been a huge
learning curve for me getting through understanding all the parts
but very interesting none-the-less.
Thanks for the responses guys. Some very interesting points and ideas to
consider.
I'm not convinced by quadrocopters. Almost all the cool videos you see out
of ETH Zurich and UPenn's Grasp Lab involve rooms with numerous Vicon
cameras ($100k+ each) tracking each robot. There's no way to do this i
There's some good points there Sam...especially about the quadcopter
form factor 8)
But I don't think this is just about dealing with your forgetfulness.
This is really augmenting your cognition and is a form of distributed
cognition. When you combine it with wearable displays (see the Google
hyp
I'm a big fan of the ceiling mounted robot idea. It can follow me around
(or come when called) without getting in the way. Tracks or a magnetic
backing behind the paint to counteract gravity. Charge by piggy backing on
a light socket.
On 5 April 2012 14:46, Sam Thorp wrote:
> This has been the p
This has been the problem plaguing home robotics for years. I spent a
little time over in the US a year or so ago and met one of the Willow
Garage guys, and they're encountering the same problem - everyone thinks
that having a robot in the home would be cool, but nobody can think of
something they'
I have a hunch that the time is right for a robotics revolution (only
six years after Bill Gates thought so), and rather than watching it
pass me by, I intend to start it. I want to build the company that
puts a robot in every home, and I'd like Silicon Beach to help me find
the path to that goal.
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