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I have to admit I was dissapointed with the level of AI built into the thing. Then again, the robopet was crafted more as a child's toy then an artificially intelligent robot
Yeah, it doesn't compare to the AIBO, but of course it is about 1/30 of the price. I bought it mostly to hack. I've already fitted a second IR port on his back (so I can control it from any angle,) and I'm going to get working on a second edge detector in its butt (so it won't back off edges,) and voice recognition for commands (seehttp://www.robotsrule.com/html/robopet-videos.php - very cool indeed 
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It's a shame he's a little too weak to carry my OQO pocket computer on his back, or I'd try bypassing his brain entirely and patching him into HomieGate or somesuch.
what kind of programming language is the robopet's brain in?
Some sort of custom control system flashed to an eprom I assume. I wasn't planning on augmenting it, but bypassing it with an RS232>USB interface board (I can only think in RS232 - it's what I grew up with,) straight to the motors. It's been too long since I was into eprom flashing - I wouldn't know where to start on reverse-engineering such a thing now! But it's not strong enough to carry the extra hardware (well, the interface board would be small, but the OQO's as heavy as the Robopet
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I did find a rather cool robotic dog kit athttp://scmstore.com/english/robotic/programmable/Dog/index.htm though, which is reasonably cheap ($320 - well, cheaper than an AIBO anyway,) and looks pretty cool.
A company claims that they are about to release the worlds first actually conscious AI!
They've been claiming this for at least a year now - I'll believe it when I see it. There's a forthcoming book apparently (still not out,) but given the breathless and not particularly grammatical style of the website, I fear it'll be unreadable.
How are you getting on with Kurzweil's latest? Food for thought, eh?
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I bought the robopet for my 4 year old sister for hannukah. she seems to love it, but I have to admit I was dissapointed with the level of AI built into the thing. Then again, the robopet was crafted more as a child's toy then an artificially intelligent robot...
Kids from Leeds in the UIK were flooding this site, just to chat, and they didn't appear very bright... Leeds Bot was built in their honour...
Strange...I wonder if any of them will ever talk to me! I wonder if i even want them too... Oh! theres that wrench! ok back to work! thanks!
Yeah, it doesn't compare to the AIBO, but of course it is about 1/30 of the price. I bought it mostly to hack. I've already fitted a second IR port on his back (so I can control it from any angle,) and I'm going to get working on a second edge detector in its butt (so it won't back off edges,) and voice recognition for commands (see
)It's a shame he's a little too weak to carry my OQO pocket computer on his back, or I'd try bypassing his brain entirely and patching him into HomieGate or somesuch.
Rumors of the first sentient artificial intelligence robot... A company claims that they are about to release the worlds first actually conscious AI!
direct link to article:
http://www.pibot.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=PIBOT
dramatic flash intro before article:
www.pibot.com
direct link to article:
Some sort of custom control system flashed to an eprom I assume. I wasn't planning on augmenting it, but bypassing it with an RS232>USB interface board (I can only think in RS232 - it's what I grew up with,) straight to the motors. It's been too long since I was into eprom flashing - I wouldn't know where to start on reverse-engineering such a thing now! But it's not strong enough to carry the extra hardware (well, the interface board would be small, but the OQO's as heavy as the Robopet
)I did find a rather cool robotic dog kit at
They've been claiming this for at least a year now - I'll believe it when I see it. There's a forthcoming book apparently (still not out,) but given the breathless and not particularly grammatical style of the website, I fear it'll be unreadable.
How are you getting on with Kurzweil's latest? Food for thought, eh?
Further to entangled photons - there's an article in the latest New Scientist: (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18925344.900.html) describing a computer chip that generates them. A great improvement on the unwieldy laser set-up it's hitherto required!
Perhaps this will put a bit of temporary security back into the world of cryptography since the SHA-1 was hacked recently (
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18825301.600)
It certainly takes a major step towards stable "desktop" quantum computing.
Perhaps this will put a bit of temporary security back into the world of cryptography since the SHA-1 was hacked recently (
It certainly takes a major step towards stable "desktop" quantum computing.
On a different track of improbable animals:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3505
There are 11 pages with four images on each page. My favorite is the giant kitty cat with laser beam eyes, though the spider at the bottom of the first page is quite nice as well.
(I should probably mention that while the pictures are a lot of fun, the captions are mostly annoying)
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3505
There are 11 pages with four images on each page. My favorite is the giant kitty cat with laser beam eyes, though the spider at the bottom of the first page is quite nice as well.
(I should probably mention that while the pictures are a lot of fun, the captions are mostly annoying)
While on the topic of Realistic AI. Who here beleives that within around 30 years there will be AI so well developed that it will be ALMOST equivliant to a human. Take the movements of asimo and a couple others like thim out there now, the skin and stucture of the faces and the "docotor on the couch" at Wired next fest 05, and the AI communication like the PF has. Advance it a few years along with the Computer brain cells being advanced in califorinia. You got yourself something practicly indisinguishable from human life. Its not a question of if, just when. Right now AI is on the last few feet of a steep hill. Once we cross that line, its all downhill, just like sputnik and the space race. So, 20 years? 30? 50?
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