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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
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ROBOTS – SUPERHUMAN KILLERS OR WHAT?
TED talks at Newtown number one.2 April 2009Dr Michael Harries
Human like
Human-smart
threatening
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.
utilitarian
helpful
autonomous
emotional
bizzare
cute
Toy?
Today’s TED
just smart enough
capable
learn and model the world
believable, emotional, and appealing
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.
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.
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
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