On 08/12/2007, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps then the reason that the > "robotics revolution" has indeed started - and is perceived as such by major > scientific media - is that with Darpa robots have moved successfully into > the real world and more or less unstructured environments.
The recent Darpa robots represent real advances in robotics, since to be able to drive around competently whilst obeying traffic rules requires some perception of the environment and the ability to make fairly critical decisions based upon those perceptions. Unlike many previous robot demos the environment could not be artificially contrived to make the perception problem trivial, and there was no man behind a curtain orchestrating the show by remote control (which is usually the case for the humanoid demos). Although I'm not claiming that this is AGI demonstrations such as this do make it increasingly difficult for detractors to claim that AI has been a failure. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=73941617-ecd726
