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Robotics => Robotics News => Topic started by: Tyler on December 16, 2008, 05:46:18 pm
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Random Robot Roundup
According to a recent research
paper, it's difficult for humans to recognize disgust on an
artificial face, but easier to recognize sadness and fear on a simulated
face than a natural one. The ability to display emotions will come in
handy as researchers develop robots capable of a wider range of
emotional responses and interactions, such as those described in a
recent Science
Daily article on emotional robots. Why bother building emotional
robots in the first place? A New
Scientist article argues that adding emotion may be one of the most
important of six ways we can develop robots that do now harm. For two
other views on what the future of robots hold in store for us, see the
TechNewsWorld article, The Coming
Revolution, which contains a few quotes from me. In other news, Doug
Emes of the
DPRG sent links to a Sean Reynolds' Wash UAV
page showing an autonomous helicopter with open source Arduino code,
and to the Sparkfun Electronics USB
32-Bit Whacker - PIC32MX460 Development Board. The Swirling Brain
sent us links to robot
concept art from the Terminator 4 movie, a BBC story on IBM's
DARPA-funded cognitive computing initiative that hopes to develop a
machine that mimics the structure and function of a brain, a gizmodo
article on the ROMP robot (Remotely Operated Mobile Platform), a
sort of poor-man's iRobot battlefield bot. The brain also noticed a Fox
news piece on the coming age of
tiny flying war robots. Roland Piquepaille let us know about his
latest blog posts on razor clam robots, the
future impact of robots
on society, and an apple picking robot.
Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way please.
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