ROBOTS

BUT WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

2008-04-25T04:46:00.001-07:00

What of the future? asimo.blogspot.com/#TheMatrixHasYouNeo
Robots are walking computers basically. Once we can build a computer to interface with the human brain, download memories and life experiences, directly from one brain to another. Live in virtual dream worlds, where anything is possible, what would we do? See third video.
Lets face it who had this technology first and spends the most money on building robots? The arms dealers!
So is the future going to be like the Matrix? War robots taking over the world?? Or even like Terminator with Skynet taking over the world? A central computer brain running the world's robots? Definitely we will have better computers and robots, in the very near future. How we use, or abuse them, is down to us. We know we have used them as soldiers in the past. But in the future might we use them as "angels" or "demons"? Religion has taught for years that god is always watching us with his angels. But now we can build flying robots with cameras.
Web cams in almost every house, CCTV everywhere. The reality that religion taught us only god could watch us all the time, has becoming the skill of humans. So, keeping an eye on us, policing us, is becoming true to even those who have no "faith" in the original idea of being watched, by invisible angels. Will it bring a better world to know if we are committing any crime WE WILL be caught? Did it stop those, through out history, who believed god was watching? Mmmm!!! Our biggest obstacle in facing such a future is fear the of it. But when the truth of it finally arrives, we will embrace it. Fear need not overpower us.

Female Android

2008-04-25T04:45:00.001-07:00

See the FEMALE ANDRIOD video
MORE VIDEOS OF THE FEMALE ANDRIOD
This is basically a robot with a latex mask.

Male android with facial expresions

Emotional moment a male android is put to sleep

It's amazing how in one video, she can recognise items, like the glass of water and the sandwhich, using her eyes! And she answers questions and chats. She appears to stand on her own but I couldn't find footage of her walking. Even Asimo looks a little scared of falling the way he walks.

Dancing robots

2008-04-25T04:44:00.001-07:00

Dancing robots Video

Dancing robots what will they think of next? Is this to soften the blow of the soldier robots to come? :)
Although it is already happening that the military are creating robots to replace soldiers. Does this mean more peace and protection? Does it mean wars without deaths fought by robots? Or does it mean the robots will see our stupidity and take over like in The Matrix or Terminator? No opinions today just questions for now.
Or will robots simply be for entertainment? Dancing? Now we have computer generated entertainment, in cinemas. So we are very familiar with using high tech computers to create our entertainment.

ASIMO COMMENTS

2008-04-25T04:37:00.001-07:00

SEE ASIMO VIDEO

Doesn't Asimo look scared? He crouches to balance as if he expects to fall any minute. Like a primate who is better use to all fours? Except when he runs! Wow is he cool when he runs!!!

ASIMO is not for sale, and is not ready to help people yet. Honda is working on the mobility part; other schools are working on making robots very smart. Putting mobility and artificial intelligence together, the promise of robots may come true.

After a brief history of robots, ranging from the science fiction machines of destruction to the robots that put together our cars, ASIMO took to the stage much like a rock star. There was loud music, flashing lights and cheers from the crowd. His audience at the Washington Convention center was made up of almost 800 students and their teachers from D.C. schools.

ASIMO stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility. It is 4 feet high and it can move a lot like we do, with 26 degrees of freedom. That means being able to move different "joints" in different directions. It also means forward and backward maintaining balance at all times, and turning without the standard pivoting of early robots. They had to walk in a straight line, stop, shuffling around in one spot to turn, then walk in a new straight line.

But ASIMO is a lot different. It can walk in figure eights, gesture - and even exudes a personality; perhaps more from the humanoid shape and smile. It even challenged three students to a balancing contest. While ASIMO stood on one foot with its "cameras" closed, the students tried the same thing, eventually flailing arms lost out to the robot's technology.

The Honda engineers who have been working on ASIMO have concentrated on making it move in our world so it could be useful to help the elderly or wheel chair bound. ASIMO could answer the door, pick up a phone or newspaper. ASIMO's tour is designed to get young people excited. "We want to inspire young people to study sciences such as math, chemical engineering, anatomy, all the sciences that it took to make ASIMO," says Jeffrey Smith, in charge of the ASIMO Project.

ASIMO even goes up and down stairs. One of its twin cameras gauges ASIMO's position as the steps are taken. The other camera is used to recognize people that can give it commands. Asimo is not the only mobile robot this little guy can ride a bike.

TOKYO ROBOTS REPORT

2008-04-25T04:36:00.001-07:00

See Tokyo robot report

I want one of those robots! The price of a car? My first car was £40. How nice a car are we talking?