With love,
Your fellow roboticists.
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For reader reference, the video below is now in the process of getting cut to pieces & hugely misinterpreted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0
Seriously. Don’t we have enough people already freaking out due to the recent years’ military adoption of drone technology?
Your work is good. Amazing. The best animated dolls ever. You have more experience in robotics than I do. But this is not the way to present your work, no matter what! The shortest line that can be misunderstood when cut in the proper way will be the one circulated around. The joke was awkward even for a roboticist.
For a few minutes of fame you just made yourself and the rest of us look like irresponsible crazy scientists. It doesn’t even do you good as you scared so many people and fuelled endless conspiracy/robot-takeover/singularity theories that tips the acceptance of robots all the way to the negative scale.
We should be concentrating on making people’s lives easier, safer, more meaningful, more pleasant, whatever that is for good, not freaking them out with human-looking dolls talking BS!
Then there are already some famous & smart people who are half-educated on recent AI/Robotics talk fearful nonsense, such as Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and others. Do you want to join that club?
Cheers from a fellow roboticist,
Bence
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Dear non-robotics people,
Please don’t believe sci-fi level stuff you see on TV.
For a good anecdotal overview of robotics I recommend reading Flesh and Machines by Rodney Brooks.
They say an engineered system is only as good as the worst performance it can give. If you would like to see how the best top-level humanoid research groups failed outside of their labs:
For a full picture on the Darpa Robotics Challenge many references can be found all over the internet or if you are from the US you can watch this documentary by PBS.
Ask me questions if you have any.
Kind regards,
Bence
I’m always glad to find interesting and inspiring material to watch that is freely available.
In this case, it is about the seminar talks of the Robotics Institute from Carnegie Mellon University. Thanks guys!
At the moment the playlist counts 77 video of internal talks all shared on youtube available for everyone.
I’m embedding the latest on here that I’ve watched today. Take a sneak-peek:
For the rest, please refer to the playlist of CMU RI:
I have started an online course about the Tiva C Launchpad(TM4C123) embedded system.
This is an Arduino like board with Arm processor. It has the same kind of developing environment as for the Arduino, for Tiva C it’s called Energia. For more deep level development, there is also Code Composer Studio (CCS) or Keil IDE .
Oh by the way, I’ve just realised that I forgot to publish my Master’s Thesis here. It’s getting a bit old, pages turning yellow but I can still find typos in it! 🙂
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k34vyfgms1jasme/msc_bence.pdf?dl=0
(Let me know if the download is buggy.)
I’m a big fan of online courses, especially the ones that feature good professors with valuable professional and teaching experience. It feels like you are at the university again, but from the comfort (or discomfort) of your chair at home.
I have recently completed “Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital” by Guillermo Sapiro.
So the reading for today is a bit more theoretical work from Robert Geraci.
It’s Apocalyptic AI.
You can find the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Apocalyptic-AI-Robotics-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/B0062GK6V4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345797382
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Hello Everyone!
Lately we didn’t shared any information with you. We don’t want to stop blogging, just we went through some life issues. I have a new job in our capital city Budapest. Finally my job is now related to software developing (in java x]), and I’m very happy about that. Now I have time and I will start blogging again.
And some information about Bence. He is now in Spain, Barcelona at the Pal Robotics, and he is writing his thesis. He will be there for six months, so it’s up to you to ask some good things about real ongoing robotics stuffs!
I really liked this book. It’s clear that the author is quite literate even in philosophy and psychology. While giving a deep view into the full AI timeline he keeps reflecting back to human biology, behavior, ethics or even history. I really liked that he did not say any formal stuff about how to prove that this and that will work. Instead he gave a brief description of how should thing be implemented or described. This book is not about how to build intelligent robots nor an AI history book but a synthesis of both.
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I’m closing in at the end of the project soooo here’s a video of the “I just need to screw these parts together somehow” phase of the hardware.
Flesh and machines 
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