2008/4/28 J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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
The outline sounds good, but is short on details. Building highly anthropomorphic robots like this will help us to understand how human cognitive skills develop, although such a system will not be able to test adaptation to substantial changes in body dynamics, as would occur with a growing human child. I'm not totally convinced that having a high number of degrees of freedom is actually necessary for the development of intelligence. Of greater importance is the sensory capability, and the ways in which that data is processed. A birds beak is a far less elaborate tool than a human hand or arm, but there are examples of birds making and using tools to extract food. These capabilities require insight - the ability to imaginatively create a possible solution to a problem, then act out that plan. ------------------------------------------- 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
