»Humanoid Robot HR-2«
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 The HR-2 robot was constructed during a period of three months at Chalmers University in Sweden. It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. The robot is also equipped with stereovision giving it possibilities to perform hand-eye coordination. For that task an artificial neural network is evolved. Furthermore, the artificial brain is capable of tracking faces as well as recognising them. The HR-2 is also able to speak. Wonder if we'll ever have a robot debating intelligently on imo.. 
[CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS PICTURE] posted by ryder |
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| in-my-opinion.orgTechnology, Computers, Science, InternetCars and MachinesHumanoid Robot HR-2 |
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ryder: It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. It seems to me that this kind of robotic design presupposes that the humanoid body plan is the most efficient for the purposes of a robot...I would say that humans are not the most efficient animals on the planet in terms of morphology...I guess maybe they are just having fun, but I imagine their research could have been more practical. posted by holy_of_holies |
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What in your opinion then is The Most Efficient Body Type? I suppose they're conforming to the common mindset that believes the highest compliment is imitation, and that robots should one day resemble humans or something. 
posted by ryder |
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ryder: What in your opinion then is The Most Efficient Body Type? Well if you look at it from the perspective of "What is the most efficient body type for complex vertebrate animals in evolutionary history?" then I would say a piscine or fish body. But if we exclude aquatic animals, then I would say it's probably a saurian or lizard body, because of the length of time in which dinosaurs were the most successful animals meeting the requirements of the question. And if you were making a robot you could just put an extra pair of arms or whatever on there so it could carry things. The problem with humanlike robots is the problem of balance; it is too difficult to emulate the complex calculations our brains make to allow us to walk, etc. And even if they can eventually make bipedal walking robots like humans, the processing power required will not be economical. But with saurians they usually have four legs and a tail to help them balance. So my answer is lizards. posted by holy_of_holies |
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Well I guess they go for the android effect instead of ergonomics. They could divert processing power to something more than locomotion and balance otherwise. So those robot-dogs could actually be a better bet than robot-humans huh. 
posted by ryder |
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 ryder: What in your opinion then is The Most Efficient Body Type? For the technology the currently have , I agree with Holie it is too difficult to emulate bipedal movement patterns. The best robot would be an R2-D2 type design. posted by Kupov |
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 holy_of_holies: Well if you look at it from the perspective of "What is the most efficient body type for complex vertebrate animals in evolutionary history?" then I would say a piscine or fish body. Especially since they have hands and fingers to make all kinds of funny atom bomb experiments underwater... holy_of_holies: I would say it's probably a saurian or lizard body, because of the length of time in which dinosaurs were the most successful animals meeting the requirements of the question Then I would say bugs. Or actually grass. But from a esthetical point of view I would say humans. posted by knn |
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