User talk:Rocketmagnet/RobotScratch

Limitations of robots

Robots are slow, clumsy, dim-witted, unsafe around humans. http://robotcentral.com/2008/07/09/three-questions-for-chetan-kapoor-agile-planet/ http://robotcentral.com/2008/06/10/three-questions-for-dan-kara-robotics-trends/ http://robotcentral.com/2008/06/03/three-questions-for-matt-mason-cmu/

Relationship with humans

1. Some people assume that, since robots have intent, they have, or might one day have, desires.
One day, robots might choose their own desires.
The desires of robots might conflict with their own.
A robot, or robots in general might one day desire to do something really bad, and successfully carry it out,
Interestingly, while other animals are seen as having desires, nobody wonders if dogs will try to take over the world.
This is because dogs are not seen to be improving in intelligence and strength every decade, while robots are.

2. Some people assume that robots will one day have complex social interactions with humans and even other robots.
Such interations may involve talking, helping, becomming friends, having sex, loving and falling in love.
These kind of interactions are seem to be less unacceptable with robots than with animals or machines, and are sometimes discussed seriously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketmagnet (talk • contribs) 12:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Humans have relationships with all things, including inanimate objects, places and cars. Since robots are viewed as having agency or intent of their own, people sometimes treat robots as if their intentions related to us. People also wonder if, one day, as robots become more sophisticated, their intentions may conflict with ours.

Agency

Robot conciousness

Human assist

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Shape

Other Topics

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In 1999, one researcher predicted that fractal cube robots (made from cubes of many sizes) would be able to manufacture cubes 1/10th of their size, until there were cubes just one micrometre across. ^[1]

Control

The control system of a modern robot is almost always implemented with a programmable, electronic computer, (e.g. a PC or a microcontroller), but may also wholly or partly consist of hardwired electronic components or integrated circuits.

Intelligence

Artificial intelligence projects can be divided into roughly two categories: 1) those which exist almost entirely in virtual world, and 2) those which are fundamentally part of a robot. This article will discuss only those which are based in robotics.

MIT's Cog:

IBM's Deep Blue:

Steve Grand's Lucy:

Manipulation

Robots which must work in the real world require some way to manipulate objects; pick up, modify, destroy or otherwise have an effect. Thus the 'hands' of a robot are often referred to as end effectors^[2], while the arm is referred to as a manipulator.^[3] Most robot arms have replacable effectors, each allowing them to perform some small range of tasks. Some have a fixed manipulator which cannot be replaced, while a few have one very general purpose manipulator, for example a humanoid hand.

File:Robot hand holding an egg.jpg

A simple gripper

Grippers: A common effector is the gripper. Usually it consists of just two fingers which can open and close to pick up and let go of a range of small objects.
Vacuum Grippers: Pick and place robots for electronic components and for large objects like car windscreens, will often use very simple vacuum grippers. These are very simple, but can hold very large loads, and pick up any object with a smooth surface to suck on to.
General purpose effectors: Some advanced robots are beginning to use fully humanoid hands, like the Shadow Dextrous Hand (right), or the Shunk hand. These highly dexterous manipulators, with as many as 20 degrees of freedom and hundreds of tactile sensors^[4] can be difficult to control. The computer must consider a great deal of information, and decide on the best way to manipulate an object from many possibilities.

Power Supply

fuel cells, supercapacitors (microrobotics)

Sensing

The majority of robots contain one or more sensors to measure aspects of their environment (exteroception) and/or their internal state (proprioception). They may use the data obtained from the sensors to make choices and alter their behavior or may simply record or transmit the data.

Exteroceptors

Touch

Electromagnetic spectrum

Sound

Smell, odor

Temperature

Range

Tilt/inclination/attitude —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Takeitupalevel (talk • contribs) 19:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Proprioceptors

Hall Effect

Optical

Contact

COMMENT- There are other current developments being worked on besides walking technology. However, I don't know if you meant to talk about this other places or something. Here is one idea of what to do. NightFalcon90909 ^Talk 15:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Swimming Robots

Flying Robots

space probe navigation like solar sails go here?

Burrowing (Digging?) Robots

Navigation is one area of robotics which has been quite well explored, and currently there are robots which can navigate well around known environments.

Vision based navigation: SeeGrid
SLAM
GPS
Inertial navigation
point cloud dist

Japanese robots: Snake, skater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxdtkopQOlM&mode=related&search=
Skating Robot http://www.fugly.com/videos/5663/skating-robot.html

References

^ (January 25, 1999) Business Week: The Shape of Robots to Come?
^ ATI Industrial Automation: What is a a robotic end-effector?
^ Cambridge University Press: Kinematic Analysis of Robot Manipulators
^ Shadow Dextrous Hand technical spec

[1] (January 25, 1999) Business Week: The Shape of Robots to Come?

[2] ATI Industrial Automation: What is a a robotic end-effector?

[3] Cambridge University Press: Kinematic Analysis of Robot Manipulators

[4] Shadow Dextrous Hand technical spec

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