Ed, I saw this on an AGI forum. Follow the hyperlink and there is a video where you can watch it in action. Perhaps THIS is the future of the actuator?
Luvya, Dad =============== On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > I’ve been saying for a while that this –practical/industrial robotics > is where practical AGI will start, and this is where it is indeed starting: > > > http://www.gizmag.com/rethink-robotics-baxter-industrial-robot/24183/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e307576584-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email > > It ain’t there yet, but already you see the key theme which again I have > already outlined – esp. > > the “no programming” robot - [remember?] > > wh. can be given a practical movement brief and quickly master it, > without programmers having to laboriously and lengthily plan its every move. > > Here workers train the robots, presumably guiding their motions, but the > next step is that you just direct/outline the robot what to do – what > object to pick up, say – and it works out how to pick up the object for > itself (even if under the final supervision of the industrialist).. > > And that robot will be a true **general** robot – you’ll be able to > direct it to pick up (or perform other handling motions on) ANY object of > ANY configuration – and it’ll be able to work out a schema for itself – in > effect program itself. > > Such a robot will be applicable to more or less any factory > > That will indeed constitute both a new industrial revolution and a > revolution in AI. > > It won’t seem grand to most current AGI-ers but that’s because they are > fantasists to a man with literally no connection to any practical reality > whatsoever - people who want to jump over the Venter steps of first > creating sub-cells and move straight to creating a full Frankenstein – and > of course have literally nothing real to show. > > But this kind of robotics is in fact incredibly exciting – it’s where > the AGI revolution will actually take place – and in this decade (while > AGI-ers here are still waffling on about fantasy singularities). > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
