A “swarm” of simple-minded robots that teams up to move an object too heavy for them to manage individually has been demonstrated by robotics researchers.
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Here’s a fun project if you have one of those old NES robots, control’em with your PC!
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Lovingly nicknamed Anna Konda, the Norwegian robot was assembled using 20 hydraulic motors powered by a regular fire hose, whose 100 bars of pressure give it enough strength to break through walls and even lift a car right up off the ground.
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You have to watch where you’re walking at the artificial intelligence conference in Boston, you might trip over a roaming robot or bump into one flying around the room. AI is 50 this summer but that won’t stop bots from driving across the desert like a 20-year-old hot rod.
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The HRP-2m Chromet is a 35cm tall, 1.5kg Gundam lookalike that is driven by ARTLinux. (I just noticed.. no more robots - hmmm linux or gadgets)
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Researchers have discovered that ordinary cellulose is a piezoelectric and smart material that can flap when exposed to an electric field. So it should be possible to use it to build lightweight flying robots carrying cameras, microphones or sensors for surveillance missions.
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“Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could become the stuff of science reality, as researchers aim to prove.”
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Advances in inkjet technology forecast robotic origami.
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Robots won’t be convincing as human equivalents until computers can pass the Turing test which I’ve consistently pegged at 2029. At that point we will have completed the reverse engineering of the several hundred regions that comprise the human brain And we’ll have the hardware to implemented these principles of operation of human intelligence.
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