Monday, January 16, 2006

Robots

The Cog Project document explains commonly held beliefs about human behavior and where they are incorrect in relation to building humanoid robots. The authors show the difficulty of creating a human computer because the computer operates from a central computing processor and the human operates by way of several interdependent systems. They state that there is no monolithic whole to use as a guide with human behavior. They understand that human behavior is learned incrementally and want to apply that system of learning to robots.

What is evident is that life is more complex than reason. As I read the article it became clear why it took billions of years for life systems to evolve. Everything is connected and independent and can only survive if its needs are fulfilled. Their approach while commendable is unfathomable to me even once they achieve their goal of human like behaviors, responses, and interactions it is not a human which has needs.

This is an example of a robotics, school of drama and computer science working together on a humanoid robot.

http://www.roboceptionist.com/behind_scenes.htm
http://roboceptionist.blogspot.com/

Boris

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