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    Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course Right Into My Nightmares

    Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo a Run For Its Money

    Wearing an Asimo Costume May Be the Least Questionable Aspect of Your Social Practices

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    Image of ysirotin ysirotin
    08/23/09

    In reply to Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course Right Into My Nightmares
    Let's not forget that we have not solved the fundamental problem here: identifying obstacles and targets. In this case all of the obstacles were identified by the pink color (target in blue) and asimo had access to a bird's eye view of the field (would it even work if the camera was mounted on asimo's head?).

    It sort of looks like they developed an algorithm for playing Mario Bros. I think robotics is awesome but machine vision still has a ways to go...

    Not too many real-life targets will have a blue dot on them :)
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment ysirotin was starred ysirotin was unstarred
    Image of Cyberization Cyberization
    08/23/09

    @ysirotin: Agreed, but at the rate of technological development, we'll have fully-capable, navigating robots in a decade or less. The time it takes for tech to evolve is almost frightening.
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment Cyberization was starred Cyberization was unstarred
    Image of ysirotin ysirotin
    08/23/09

    @Cyberization: Yes, processors are becoming faster and memory larger, but segmentation of images and identification of objects are problems not just waiting for better hardware.

    They are waiting for new algorithms. Navigating around well marked barriers and arbitrary environments are by far several orders of magnitude different.

    So I think it will not be a simple issue of Moore's law, but a breakthrough in computer science or neuroscience that will make this possible... who knows when that will be.
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    Image of Cyberization Cyberization
    08/23/09

    In reply to Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course Right Into My Nightmares
    Is anyone else even more excited about the future of robots after seeing this video?

    If Isaac Asimov were alive he'd be grinning alongside me.
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment Cyberization was starred Cyberization was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    08/23/09

    @Cyberization: Ooh. Ah. That's how it starts. Then comes the running and the screaming.
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    Image of Cyberization Cyberization
    08/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasADDWRTRouter:
    I certainly acknowledge the idea of artificial intelligence as "taking over" is legitimate concern; the technology we develop will surely bring us to the point of independent artificial intelligent machinations.

    However, since the Cold War, humanity's technophobic sentiments have run rampant. The whole lot of us have read/viewed/heard about robots as the harbingers of death. I think we've immersed ourselves in the negative so much that it has seeped in to our preconceived notions of what a robot is and will do.

    Regardless of whether or not you hold a technophobic or technophilic attitude, let's hope developers incorporate programming laws in to their robots--something similar, perhaps, to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

    P.S.--Let's hope that sentient A.I. doesn't become an issue. Otherwise, no matter how many programming laws we integrate, we're S.O.L.
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    Image of notlikeacat notlikeacat
    08/23/09

    In reply to Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course Right Into My Nightmares
    LOL at 3:37 I swear the bot looks up at the human with an attitude. "Stop teasing me you bastard!"
    Pick it up at about 3:28
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment Edited by notlikeacat at 08/23/09 1:19 PM notlikeacat was starred notlikeacat was unstarred
    Image of Killa_Charlie Killa_Charlie
    08/03/09

    In reply to Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo a Run For Its Money
    Just look at those squinty eyes.

    "Smile now, but my time comes.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/02/09

    In reply to Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo a Run For Its Money
    The balance it had was cool. They'd better hope it doesn't have emotions before they teach it how to throw a right hook after all that shoving they've been doing to him. lol.
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    08/02/09

    In reply to Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo a Run For Its Money
    Pretty cool, although I think Big Dog is cooler.
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    Killa_Charlie promoted this comment jepzilla was starred jepzilla was unstarred
    Image of Killa_Charlie Killa_Charlie
    08/03/09

    @jepzilla: If I saw something like that in the woods making that kind of sound I'd be scared shitless.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/24/09

    In reply to Wearing an Asimo Costume May Be the Least Questionable Aspect of Your Social Practices
    Mark,

    Robosexuals like you disgust me! It's goddamn unnatural wanting to mate with a robot. And any lady who would date a robot deserves to choke on a Cinnabon.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/24/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: just cause you got burned with cosplay doesn't make it bad for everyone. *rubs salt
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/24/09

    @Nick: DeusExMach needs a star: You sound like a frakkin' robosexual. Go back to screwing your Roomba, you robosexual!
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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    07/24/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: it's close-minded biggots like you that keep us from being free.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/24/09

    In reply to Wearing an Asimo Costume May Be the Least Questionable Aspect of Your Social Practices
    yeah, but if put that on all the "fart can" civics will try to race me. i hate that crap.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/24/09

    In reply to Wearing an Asimo Costume May Be the Least Questionable Aspect of Your Social Practices
    If you want to go for realism, you'll need to practice falling down the stairs.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of bosskev bosskev
    07/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Looks to me like putting on that piece of puffy bloat-wear would make you so clumsy and awkward you could not help but fall down stairs.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: First thing I would do.
    Spot on.
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    Image of Hi, I'm God Hi, I'm God
    07/24/09

    In reply to Wearing an Asimo Costume May Be the Least Questionable Aspect of Your Social Practices
    Lets all join together in a group, "What the FUCK?" call.

    Seriously... I would not wear this thing even on Halloween.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment Hi, I'm God was starred Hi, I'm God was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/24/09

    @Hi, I'm God: If anyone asks, say Stay Puft Astronaut Man.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 07/24/09 2:00 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    07/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: until they light you on fire with their proton packs...
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    Image of MissingPieces MissingPieces
    07/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: 'Stay Puft'
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/24/09

    @MissingPieces: Thanks for the correction, and Thank YOU edit button.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    The biggest hurdle of all is batteries. No matter how elaborate you make a machine, it will always be limited by its power source.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    what about spider tanks? I want autonomous robot insect tanks! And tank killing autonomous robot wasps! And Giant CRAB BATTLE!
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Robotic Bilbo Bagins has no use for fleshy ones: Why stop there?


    Giant Crab that transforms into a tank transforms into a robot!



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    Image of OmniZero OmniZero
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    Yeah Johnny 5 from Short Circuit!


    Robots have no chance of revolting as long as there is no A.I. As soon as you implement that, you're done for. They'll slowly realize they are superior and kill us all merely because it can.


    Or we can install a morality core. That'll prevent them from flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @OmniZero: Unless of course, you simply don't install the system that actually stores and distributes the deadly neurotoxin.
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    Image of OmniZero OmniZero
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well with A.I., they might install it themselves...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @OmniZero: I can just imagine the clerk at the Aperture Science Center looking through invoices, and coming across a huge sum spent on a massive supply of neurotoxin, and a contracting invoice to have a large gas piping system installed in the GLaDOS control room.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    So basically, we're talking about animatronic avatars of the modern soldier? Sounds nifty, but sounds goofifyingly expensive. Why bother with robo-avatars when you can send a dozen stealthy aerial kill drones and barrel through the streets with remote control tanks? Why use complicated designs, like elaborate mimicry of the human form, when you can use simpler machines, like wheels and wings and engines, that can travel several times faster?
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: If we wanted to plain flatten cities and ignore collateral damages, then yes. In fact, that kind of warfare would make the army and the marines completely pointless.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: Just the same, the inherent complications of a humanoid robot design goes largely ignored in science fiction for the sake of fiction. A good example is the ASIMO. We've still got a long way before a humanoid robot can even run up and down the stairs, let alone have enough portable power to even do so. As cool as this technology sounds, once you strip away the fantasy element, humanoid robot soldiers will probably never replace real soldiers, because speed and efficiency just isn't possible in a robot of identical physiological makeup (yet).
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yes. But what can you do? If you want to get something done, you'd better start somewhere, even if it takes forever.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: Perhaps. Maybe I'm just bitter because we'll get humanoid killbots before I get a humanoid robot slave. Is it so wrong to want a [robotic] slave? Aren't I entitled to a [robotic] slave?
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    Image of Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    True- but what about cloning humans with a computer in their head instead of a brain? No ethical problem no brain= not human and perhaps they could be cheapily mass produced. Its total SF of course.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    @Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire: Isn't it much easier to have simian servants as they already do in Japan?
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    05/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, all told, humans are not the most deadly or agile creatures in the physical makeup department. We can hardly fend off poisonous insects unarmed, let alone fight off wolves, tigers, bears, etc. Our way of movement is decent for super-long distance (or so marathon runners have said), but we're super slow in sprint speed and low on jump height.


    We'd be better off with cat robots: fast, agile, climbs many surfaces, survives large drops...and very unfriendly to people it doesn't like. Mount a gun on it's back, and you've got a killing machine.

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    kagekiri was starred kagekiri was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/20/09

    @kagekiri: And despite all of our most apparent frailties, human beings have managed to spread across the earth and flourish in all sorts of hazardous conditions.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/20/09

    In reply to Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
    As long as there will be a Summer Glau bot on the way, it's all good.
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