Kojiro mimics the human body and can handle more complex movements.

Kojiro is a humanoid which is built by the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory.

Kojiro  musculoskeletal humanoid robot has a detailed musculoskeletal system built to mimic the human body.

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To develop control algorithms for Kojiro, the JSK team is using an iterative learning process. This kind of system has lots of nonlinearities and is hard to model precisely.

The main drawback of using a musculoskeletal system is that controlling the robot’s body is difficult. For balance, the robot uses three gyros and a three-axis accelerometer on its head. To keep track of its posture and limb positions, they embedded joint angle sensors on spherical joints and six-axis force sensors on the ankles. To make the robot safer, the researchers built its body using mostly light and flexible materials. The results are transmitted to a computer and displayed on a control screen developed by Takanishi. A driver circuit board automatically adjusts the current fed to the motors based on temperature measurements.

Each motor unit has a rotary encoder, tension sensor, and current and temperature sensing circuit. Its brushless motors are quite small but can deliver a substantial 40 watts of output power. These tendon-muscle structures — Kojiro has about 100 of them — work together to give the robot some 60 degrees of freedom, or… Read the rest

Meet Roboni-i: The unique fusion of interactive gameplay and real world robotics.

Complete your own missions or compete against friends. Program and customize your Roboni-i. You can even create your own games to share with friends! Join the vibrant Roboni-i online world and guide your customized avatar through a virtual lunar world where you can run missions, play intense games, set up tournaments and meet other Roboni-i users.

Robonica, the owner of Roboni-i, is based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Their second office is at Centurion, South Africa. This is what the company says about its project.

Say hi to Roboni-i, the world’s first programmable gaming robot. With nimble 360º movement, 16 sensors and 4 processors, Roboni-i can navigate on its own, avoid obstacles, play games, do tricks – and interact with its environment. It’s easy to customize and loaded with games; play on your own or against friends with similar robots. You can even create your own games, or download games others have created.

• Shoot, scoop, capture and maneuver through single and multiplayer games
• Use the same remote controller offline and online
• Infrared sensors to detect obstacles and interact with other robots
• ZigBee (RF) technology allows different robots to participate in team games.

Watch the Roboni-i move autonomously. See the amazing technology that allows one robot to follow the other. See them dance in perfect choreographed style!

Roboni-i Christmas

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Six ways

An easy way to show this list via NewScientist with images

I hope I have made it

Keep them in low-risk situations

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Do not give them weapons

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Give them rules like Asimov’s ‘Three Laws of Robotics’

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Program robots with principles

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Educate robots like children

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Make machines master emotion

More Details via Six ways to build robots that do humans no harm

Please comment your ideas for other ways.

Are these all possibilities?

What do you think?

droid day care

R2 has been given day care duties for all the baby droids. He’s not happy.

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XPERO project Research on technology to understand human being [Degrees of freedom]

XPERO’s A.I. is stored in Nao, an autonomous, programmable and medium-sized humanoid robot. This video demonstrates and explains very simple the complexity of the science declared A.I. (artificial intelligence).

4. Degrees of freedom (“…from the data obtained this way, he builds a model that describes what we know as degrees of freedom.”)

A robot explores his environment and learns from his experiences

This is about autonomous robot scholarship by experimentation and gaining insights of the world. The robot has no particular goal but to gain knowledge of as much as possible by forecast and executing experiments in his environment and of course from its knowledge-beginning obtained data. The robot learns relations between its measures and observations.

Degree-Of-Freedom

Conscious that the robot is gifted to move the boxes, it wonders how far it is capable to impulse them. It chooses a box and begins to push it in one command awaiting the box hits a wall. Surprised that the box is out of the blue unmovable, he tries just about it in new directions and succeeds to slide the box down the wall, in anticipation of he reaches a corner.

From the data obtained this way, he builds a model that describes

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“Daisy Bell” was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. In 1961

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Do you know other awesome Robot videos History or Futuristic?

like this one

Our Robot Future – Rodney Brooks

full length video via fora.tv

The synth-playing robot (1984)

Idea via SynthGear “The synth-playing robot”

The AIDA project (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent), a collaboration between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots Group of Media Lab), is a platform comprising of a personal robot and an intelligent navigation system that aims to bring an innovative driving experience.

Lazy, laziness!

Any other ideas to make everything easier?

Robot armies ‘will explore alien worlds’

The British Telegraph claimed this in its Blog post from the 28th (yesterday)

Must we fear this scenario?

“One day an entire fleet of robots will be autonomously commanded at once. This armada of robots will be our eyes, ears, arms and legs in space, in the air, and on the ground, capable of responding to their environment without us, to explore and embrace the

unknown.”

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new us army robot

Your comments are appreciated and welcomed.

“Biped robot that balances dynamically using a human-like walking motion.”

Idea to this post an more videos via FastCompany

Boston Dynamics is a small engineering and robotics firm spun off from MIT in 1982. According to its own Web site it “builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed.” Those parameters sound kinda military-like for a reason: BD has worked with DARPA, the Army, the Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as the more innocuous-sounding Sony. Their current starting lineup:Biped robot that balances dynamically using a human-like walking motion.

Can it be more realistic (scary)?

Comments are appreciated.

autonomous car controlled with an iPhone

I was looking for posts about artificial intelligence (AI) and stumbled over this project from the Freie Universitaet Berlin

“Spirit of Berlin” is a project of the Artificial Intelligence Group, directed by Prof. Raul Rojas, at Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Essential Components for an Autonomous Car

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Spirit of Berlin is the well known “two-time world champion and five times European champion in robotic soccer”

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When you have more interesting ideas about Artificial Intelligence, augmented software/ reallity (iPhones, Android, etc.) please comment or contact us via androgeek @Twitter #augmented

3 funny PSA’s directed by Jake Maymudes

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Tetsujin No. 28 in production

Translated YouTube description:

“Anime version of the same total length of 18 meters set “Gigantor”, and metal processing company in Kishiwada, Osaka “SEISAKUSHO North Sea” in the works. 100,000,000 construction cost is 3500 yen. 10 of this year’s Hometown Yokoyama Mitsuteru to be published in Kobe. NPO corporation “KOBE Etsuhiko people project” Looking for a gold sponsorship.”