Posted 04.04.2012 at 10:04 am
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ECCEROBOT, The First Anthropomimetic 'Bot
Over at BBC, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy has examined what he’s calling the world’s first anthropomimetic robot--a robot that mimics in extremely high anatomical detail the movements and construction of the human body. The robot, named ECCEROBOT, possesses artificial analogs of human bones, muscles, and tendons that endow it with human-like motions and--perhaps someday--will imbue it with human-like intelligence.
Captured for a BBC show titled “Horizon: The Hunt for AI” (it airs tonight at 9 p.m., for any of our across-the-pond readers who may be interested), ECCEROBOT--for Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot--serves three purposes. The first, of course, is to prove out the creation of a truly anthropomimetic robot. The second: figure out how to control it. But thirdly (and most interestingly), ECCEROBOT serves to explore how having a human-like physical form could influence human-like cognitive features.
In other words, the University of Sussex researchers working with ECCEROBOT posit that without an artificial body, artificial intelligence cannot really exist--the brain controls the body, but the physical body also informs brain. In the brief teaser clip posted at BBC, we can see that the researchers have made ample progress toward completing objectives one and two. As for the third, we naturally still have a long way to go. We’ve embedded an older, brief intro to ECCEROBOT below, but click through to BBC for the latest on this anthropomimetic endeavor.
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The arms seem to have some human type movements, but it also seems the software activates motor and jerks that movement fully. I would think with better synchronous pulsating activation they may get better fluid motion and closer to natural human motion. If this robot was required to pick something up, I think it knock it over first as it approach an object. I assume in time the movements will get better with better programming. It is really neat over all!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
I'm sure it's already a lot more intelligent than Obama.
When did the expression of political opinions become part of an OBJECTIVE, ON-TOPIC comment thread? What? They did when that one guy posted? COME ON, people. Let's grow up a bit. The anonymity of the Internet does NOT mean it's ok to be immature.
Anyway, I think it's a very interesting idea. Although, from the picture, i would definitely agree that they have a ways to go.
I'm getting a really strong Geth vibe off of that one.
The Future is now! #____#
Wasn't this robot or an alien that looked like it on the extremely old Star Trek series of which the alien grab someone and suck all the salt out of the individual for his salts so it could survive and continue! Oh, do not forget it is a shape shifter too!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
What this REALLY looks like is the evil creature from MOONTRAP (late '80s cheapo sci-fi horror that I probably shouldn't admit to having seen), where alien pods cannibalize machinery and electronics and people to construct robotic monsters.
Much more impressed by the Japanese built robots.
The saying: "keep it simple stupid" comes to mind.