This article, appeared on 7/19/2011 on AZoRobotics, discusses the main reasons why I believe that we are on the verge of a paradigm shift in the way robots are going to be programmed.
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Twelve hours, one microcontroller on a self-designed development board, driver units, a cheap ultrasonic sensor, two bumper sensors, LEGO pieces, and the usual bits and pieces you’ll find in every workshop, overall not more worth than approximately $120. Those were the constraints on a small two man project around New Year’s Eve. Crazy? Yes, but we did it, see Video 1 and Video 2. How? You’ll find out by reading the timeline below. Read the rest of this entry »
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article titled "Drones Get Ready to Fly, Unseen, Into Everyday Life", a quick outlook on the emerging personal drones market. Until a few years ago, drones uniquely evoked images of war and destruction coming from the sky. The unmanned Predator craft of Central Intelligence Agency was a prime example: a remote-controlled craft armed with Hellfire missiles, widely used in Pakistan operations. This image is about to change drastically. Read the rest of this entry »
All this Neurdon hullabaloo over memristors and Kurzweilian futurism has got me thinking about the inevitable media question concerning all this: Will our RoboSlave Bots learn to love us in a somewhat creepy, Haley Joel Osment “Artificial Intelligence: AI” kind of way? In other words, will humans be able to one day produce conscious, silicon-based offspring? There are obviously a cornucopia of contingencies when discussing artificial sentience, however, I am going to not-so-subtly sidestep all the philosophical snafus and approach the problem from a modeler’s POV. Read the rest of this entry »
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