Robotics

[hollohas]

Here:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/r...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]

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.

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Skynet uses Windows XP SP3

[hollohas]

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Skynet uses Windows XP SP3

If that's the case we shouldn't have to worry...until the robots make their own operating system.

[Hoosier]

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]

^^^Whoa. My mind does not comprehend that

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...

[Marlin]

Wait for it,,,,,,,,,,,















ZOMBIE ROBOTS!!!!

[BigBear]

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.

[spyder]

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?

[hollohas]

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?

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.