[info] [agi] News bit: Carnegie Mellon unveils Internet-controlled robots anyone can build

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Bob Mottram <fuzzgun at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:09:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: [agi] News bit: Carnegie Mellon unveils Internet-controlled
 robots anyone can build
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   Well you've correctly anticipated the next step.  I'm adding a
   manipulator arm, which is only a little shorter than an adult human
   arm, so that the robot will be capable of doing a few useful jobs.
   The intention here is to use it for things like sweeping, mopping or
   dusting.
   The robot, which I've named GROK1, has a single camera mounted on a
   pan and tilt mechanism such that it has nearly a full hemisphere of
   possible viewing angles.  In its simplest form this could be used to
   generate high resolution panoramas (I believe Google is doing
   something similar to this).  It can be driven around the house, and
   menace its occupants with an onboard speaker ("stand back! I'm
   maximizing my utility function!").
   This is all good fun, but there is a slightly more serious side.  As
   soon as you add an arm to a robot it could potentially get up to
   mischief, knocking things over or wielding an object as a weapon.
   It's only a question of time before tele-robots such as these become
   commercially available, so it might be worthwhile thinking about some
   of the possible negative side effects in advance.  It's likely that
   I'll be finding out some of these quite soon.

   On 26/04/07, Benjamin Goertzel <[1]ben at goertzel.org> wrote:

     A couple of images of the robot which I'm developing, which uses
     the Qwerk.

     [2]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/459084802_33a784930e_b.jpg

     [3]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/247/461423164_1d7176c14a_b.jpg

     Cool!
     That robot looks like it can see things and move around, but not
     manipulate things...
     Or am I missing something?
     Do you have plans to add a manipulator (arm, etc.?) of some sort?
     ben
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