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So, as I was going through useless crap on the net, I found a video of someone controling a robot with Xbox's kinect program.
http://www.wimp.com/robotkinect/
We all know that technology is evolving a lot faster than we would like to think it is and there is so much being created as we speak, but I am just posting about a few robots such as the one posted above and these next couple from Japan which are already four years almost 5 years old. I wonder what they/we have now?
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This one is also in Japan, this robot is a little bigger and demonstrates its ability to run at the beginning of the video. It has complete control of all of its fingers to grasp things in its hands. At 3:10 it walks a lady across the mat. At 6:50 it shows it helping in an office setting with coffee, well, kinda helping.
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So, what do anyone think about these? Combine the top one with the third one and you could completely control a robot and make it mimic you and your movements. By now I would think the movements would be a little more fluid and it could possibly run faster. I don't know. You could make it pick things up and work it in an environment that you wouldn't want a person to go into.
we are doomed.
I just hope I'm still around when they're making realistic sex bots.
68Charger
02-09-2011, 14:32
we are doomed.
I just hope I'm still around when they're making realistic sex bots.
You'll probably be replaced by one when they become available... [ROFL1]
That was harsh, but couldn't be helped...
68Charger
02-09-2011, 14:36
I don't know. You could make it pick things up and work it in an environment that you wouldn't want a person to go into.
I just hope I'm still around when they're making realistic sex bots.
This is what made it irresistible to respond... are these related? [Coffee]
The bottom robot, Asimo, is Honda's robot.
But what kind of guns do robots like?
How do they shoot? Sub MOA?
Could I see one in a digi camo outfit?
hollohas
02-09-2011, 16:23
The second two dancing robots (without the fans) dance like me. [Ban1]
Here:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/roboearth-teaches-robots-to-learn-from-peers-pour-european-frui/
H.
hollohas
02-09-2011, 16:36
Here:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/roboearth-teaches-robots-to-learn-from-peers-pour-european-frui/
H.
That robot has a Microsoft Kinect sensor for a head...that thing is so new (only a few months) but must be some serious technology if it is being incorporated into robot designs that must have been being worked on for years.
Is the Kinect an important piece of the the beginning of Skynet?
Oh, and science fiction drives inventors. It's scary. If these RoboEarth guys say they didn't get this idea from Skynet then they are lying out their face.
Byte Stryke
02-09-2011, 16:59
we are doomed.
I just hope I'm still around when they're making realistic sex bots.
you will be, but you will be too old to enjoy it :P
That robot has a Microsoft Kinect sensor for a head...that thing is so new (only a few months) but must be some serious technology if it is being incorporated into robot designs that must have been being worked on for years.
Is the Kinect an important piece of the the beginning of Skynet?
Oh, and science fiction drives inventors. It's scary. If these RoboEarth guys say they didn't get this idea from Skynet then they are lying out their face.
00:39
Skynet uses Windows XP SP3
[Eek3]
Byte Stryke
02-09-2011, 17:03
At 6:50 it shows it helping in an office setting with coffee, well, kinda helping.
Binary Interactive Technical Consort and Helper go get my coffee!
:D
hollohas
02-09-2011, 17:05
00:39
Skynet uses Windows XP SP3
[Eek3]
If that's the case we shouldn't have to worry...until the robots make their own operating system.
Is the Kinect an important piece of the the beginning of Skynet?
Kinect is important because it's the first inexpensive easily hackable Structured Light 3d system. This video shows what the structured light it beams out looks like, if you could see in near-infrared (as opposed to thermal infrared)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTf0yYQjSg
The camera on the device then measures the distance between all those dots, and is able to figure out how far away something is based on that distance. So it's getting the color of a dot, and how far away that dot is, for every dot in the row, and every row in the image. You can see in videos like this (or others from this guy) when he rotates around the camera, what you can reconstruct with the Kinect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A
In the future, this will be joined together with LIDAR, RADAR, SONAR and all other sensing technologies to give computers a sense of their environment. The trick is less about collecting the data than it is in interpreting it. We animals are remarkably talented at interpreting the world through binocular stereo vision.
H.
hollohas
02-10-2011, 10:31
^^^Whoa. My mind does not comprehend that [NoClue]
What's the Star Trek thing called, the Halodeck? The room where they can project 3D space and interact? I bet that's not too far away...
Wait for it,,,,,,,,,,,
ZOMBIE ROBOTS!!!!
[LOL]
patrick0685
02-10-2011, 11:06
Binary Interactive Technical Consort and Helper go get my coffee!
:D
haha...now thats funny[LOL]
Byte Stryke
02-10-2011, 11:36
haha...now thats funny[LOL]
Someone finally got that?
[facepalm]
What's the Star Trek thing called, the Halodeck? The room where they can project 3D space and interact? I bet that's not too far away...
Not too far out at all.... give it 20 years give or take. Won't be able to physically interact since it'll be light based, but the general gist is already in production.
What's the Star Trek thing called, the Halodeck? The room where they can project 3D space and interact? I bet that's not too far away...
That would be awesome. They have to be close to doing it, I know in Japan they already have 3D holograms giving live concerts. You can see these things from 3 sides as they are projected out in front of the back mirror by about 4 feet. Even with the back mirror being in place, could you imagine watching a movie like Avatar or the terminator like that?
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hollohas
02-10-2011, 12:17
That would be awesome. They have to be close to doing it, I know in Japan they already have 3D holograms giving live concerts. You can see these things from 3 sides as they are projected out in front of the back mirror by about 4 feet. Even with the back mirror being in place, could you imagine watching a movie like Avatar or the terminator like that?
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Man, that's crazy. What do they project it on? A smoke screen?
I'm not too technically minded but I do know a thing or two about light and I know we need 3 things in order to see: A light source (projector), something to reflect the light (smoke or something?) and of course the 3rd is our eyes to receive the light. You can consider our brain (to interpret the light) as a forth but most consider that as a single system with our eyes.
ThunderSquirrel
02-10-2011, 12:18
Our old IT Director here put in a job req for a Business / Information Technology Chief Handler, and got it approved by H.R.
Poor guy kept that job title for 2 years before someone in HR finally wised up and made them change it.
But what kind of guns do robots like?
How do they shoot? Sub MOA?
Could I see one in a digi camo outfit?
I bet they have ridiculously fast fingers. fuck full auto when your hand swivels faster than a guns cyclic rate!
This is what made it irresistible to respond... are these related? [Coffee]
LOL [ROFL3]
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