2008/12/20 Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org>: > > It doesn't have to be humanoid ... but apart from rolling instead of > walking, > I don't see any really significant simplifications obtainable from making it > non-humanoid.
I can think of several. For example, you could give it lidar to measure distances with -- this could then be used as input to its vision system making it easier for the robot to tell which objects are near or far. Instead of binocular vision, it could have >2 video cameras. It could have multiple ears, which would help it tell where a sound is coming from. The the best of my knowledge, no robot that's ever been used for anything practical has ever been humanoid. > Grasping and manipulating general objects with robot manipulators is > very much an unsolved research problem. So is object recognition in > realistic conditions. What sort of visual input do you plan to have in your virtual environment? > So, to make an AGI robot preschool, one has to solve these hard > research problems first. > > That is a viable way to go if one's not in a hurry -- > but anyway in the robotics context any talk > of preschools is drastically premature... > >> >> > On the other hand, making a virtual world such as I envision, is more >> > than a >> > spare-time project, but not more than the project of making a single >> > high-quality video game. >> >> GTA IV cost $5 million, so we're not talking about peanuts here. > > Right, but that is way cheaper than making a high-quality humanoid robot Is it? I suspect one with tracks, two robotic arms, various sensors for light and sound, etc, could be made for less than $10,000 -- this would be something that could move around and manipulate a blocks world. My understanding is that all, or nearly all, the difficulty comes in programming it. Which is where AI comes in. > Actually, $$ aside, we don't even **know how** to make a decent humanoid > robot. > > Or, a decently functional mobile robot **of any kind** Is that because of hardware or software issues? -- Philip Hunt, <cabala...@googlemail.com> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
