I drool over the physical robot -- it's built like a brick outhouse. It has 53 degrees of freedom, binocular vision, touch, audition, and inertial sensors, harmonic drives, top-grade aircraft aluminum members, the works.
That doofy face places it squarely in the deepest ravine of the uncanny valley. They talk a very good game in the AGI approach they're taking, for my money: see http://www.robotcub.org/misc/review3/07_Vernon_Metta_Sandini_ICDL.pdf Josh On Monday 28 April 2008 10:13:48 am, Ed Porter wrote: > For an article on an interesting project on embodied AGI read > "Next Step In Robot Development Is Child's Play" at > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080421162240.htm > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
