These general conceptual notions seem to have nothing to do with ROS, which is really just a nice system of software interfaces for robot actuation and perception.... Building a ROS stack for your robot lets your robot be controlled by the same or similar high-level code that works for other robots with ROS stacks.... This has no direct connection to "executive selves", etc...
-- ben g On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > No Willow isn't GI, but it's a step towards - as I think I may have said > before, it leads to the idea of a General [Robot] Operating System - and not > just General in terms of being applicable to many robot systems, but general > in its "language" and framing - by contrast with all operating systems to > date, which are actually totally specific in language and framing. All > living creatures, arguably, have general operating systems and executive > selves to operate them. This higher, general, executive level is totally > missing from present computation. > > > -----Original Message----- From: Mike Archbold > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:17 AM > To: AGI > Subject: Re: [agi] Universal Robotics > > > I know of Willow Garage and the robot O/S, but didn't come away with > the idea that it aspired after general intelligence in some form (?). > > I noticed that Universal Robotics, on their web site, dropped the > now-derogatory "narrow" term for older AI approaches but claim their > software is instead "broad," I think (and/or "natural"). It would be > interesting to me to see how many of the companies on the list you > link have aspirations or claims of general intelligence in some way. > I think that some imply that if it isn't "preprogrammed" with rules > then that alone makes it "general intelligence." > > On 3/26/13, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The question this raises for me is: what are the top robotics companies in >> the world? >> >> The best I could do with a quick Google is this list of top-wiki-viewed >> companies: >> >> http://top-topics.thefullwiki.org/Robotics_companies >> >> Anyone got something better? >> >> Willow Garage is one of the most interesting for me in that they are >> trying >> >> to develop a multi-robot Robot Operating System and library of >> routines/programs. >> >> Anyone else competing with them here? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike Archbold >> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:21 PM >> To: AGI >> Subject: [agi] Universal Robotics >> >> Has anyone studied what this company, Universal Robotics, is doing? >> Their website and the wiki (seemingly written by them, as hyped-up as >> it sounds) makes some fairly broad claims, including their "natural >> intelligence." >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Robotics >> >> Historically this group is the go-to place for hype adjusting. I've >> never read anything here by anybody impressed by any AI.... >> >> Mike A >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> AGI >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/6952829-59a2eca5 >> Modify Your Subscription: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> AGI >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae >> Modify Your Subscription: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/6952829-59a2eca5 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
