What's a robot? This deck shows the sheer variety of what we mean by robot and was used to introduce a couple of fantastic TED talks on robotics for a TED Salon at Newtown Public School (NSW, Australia) on 2nd April 2009.
We followed a quick run through this deck with TED videos from:
1. Rodney Brooks
2. Hod Lipson
3. Caleb Chung
And finally a very interesting and varied discussion.
http://www.newtownkids.com/Home/ted-talks
15. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics:
1. a robot may not injure a human being or,
through inaction, allow a human being to come
to harm;
2. a robot must obey orders given to it by human
beings, except where such orders would conflict
with the First Law;
3. and a robot must protect its own existence as
long as such protection does not conflict with
the First or Second Law.
54. Today’s TED
just smart enough
capable
learn and model the world
believable, emotional, and appealing
55. Rodney Brooks
MIT professor Rodney Brooks
Australian
Pioneer of bottom up robotics
Studies and engineers robot intelligence
Looking for the holy grail of robotics: the
AGI, or artificial general intelligence.
56. Hod Lipson
Cornell University Associate Professor
(a) Can we design machines that can design
other machines, and
(b) Can we make machines that can make
other machines.
57. Caleb Chung
Toy inventor
Furby – rockstar status
Pleo – “supercute baby dinosaur that begins
its emotional and intellectual development
when you pull it out of the box”
Slice of a talk