Robotics and Robots!!

[joseph gerard]

Hi there,
Robots are like a common thing nowadays. They can be seen anywhere, in factories, industries etc. This man made automation equipment contributed a lot in our lives. They are helping in space researches, in medical field and a new addition is they are working for army also. What is your vies about this thought.

Joseph

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[MarJay]

[27cows]

Robots are common in the world of motorcycling. You see them, identical, pre-programmed, starting to emerge around this time of year and take to their samey generic plastic reptiles Usually on Sunday afternoons, often in groups.
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[Itchy]

Is it me or does that almost sound like a Yahoo questions type question.
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[ncrn]

For a minute I thought this was going to be an interesting thread (my degree is in robotics).

But yes there are more robots than say during the early the 1600s. Though generally robots are either machines that follow repetitive tasks or follow instructions from a human operator, it'll be more interesting when robots are capable of thinking for themselves and making decisions on their own.
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[pa_broon74]

Mmm.

Assuming this isn't the prelude to some elaborate scam along the lines of; 'I am Doctor Zamunda of the Nigerian Robotic Institute and I have a robot I need you to hide, here is a million dollars(US) etc etc etc'.

I used to watch Tomorrows' World as a child and they said we'd all have robots in our houses to do chores and stuff yet I find myself doing my own dishes, burning my own toast, and doing laundry & masterbation with my own fair hand!

Where the fuck is my robot and no, a Tea's Maid doesn't count!


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[Itchy]

[ncrn]

Well I'm hoping that I'll be the one building the robots, so if the robots replace me we're pretty screwed .

Either way I'm not that interested in factory automation, its boring and really quite easy to do I'm more interested in either flying robots or robots that have military applications (not necessarily offensive weapons). Generally because it involves sending a robot into a dynamic environment (the world) and its really really challenging to get something to move around and perform tasks well in an unknown area.

Sad truth is people will always try to find ways to things cheaper even if that means removing jobs for people within this country, one thing I have picked up from a couple of jobs I've had now is that out-sourcing generally doesn't end well, and you usually spend more money rectifying major issues you develop or just generally keeping on top of the foreign workforces. In my company at least they are no longer outsourcing unless it is for component manufacture.
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[R6jonny]

been watching I, Robot much ??
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[ncrn]

I wouldn't worry so much about the current generation of robots taking over like that, robots are really good at following instructions or appearing smart, but realistically very few can achieve tasks that a human can do easily, for example sorting random items and stacking them on a shelf is a massive undertaking for a robot, not so hard for a human.

If we can replicate the way the human brain works however.. then yeah we will pretty much be redundant in a few years.
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[rac3r]

My dad's factory has robots. They take the container from the mould and stack them in 50's

(BTW studying robotics must be quite cool )
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[Itchy]

[Stoo]

OMGZ robotic accountants

[The Original Muzza]

There's that Steven Hawking thing, that's pretty advanced. Obviously they need a MKII Hawking bot, that can think AND do household chores. That would be bodacious AND far-out.
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[supZ]

its a big deal just to get a humanoid robot just to sit down so we're a long way off 'the matrix' yet

cant even build one to walk properly yet!

if you notice all the so called 'walking' robots keep a static posture and centre of gravity. thats not how we walk. in essesence walking is controlled falling and they havent even managed to program a robot to handle that yet

we may be able to build AI systems to recognise objects or have a surreal conversion with you on msn but independant thought and decision making? i think not.

not in my lifetime i would imagine certainly.
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[Itchy]

[Frost]

The turning point is not when AI gets smarter than humans, because this has already been done. AI can beat a human at any highly specific task e.g playing chess. The problem AI has is that it is confined to a specific task. The turning point is when AI is smart enough to analyse itself and design it's replacement. Once this happens things can snowball and the control of the development process is removed from humans. Currently we struggle to specifically specify what we know and how we know it so that a robot can learn it, eg how do you understand english? Easy to do, near impossible to define exactly so that a robot can replicate.

[G]

I wouldn't call effectively completing a 'mechanical' task 'smart' personally.
By that definition, some roman technology could be considered 'smarter' than people. I wouldn’t consider playing chess ‘Artificial Intelligence’ for a lot of the systems used at least – as it’s more just ‘programming’ and ‘programmed learning’.

When we have decent AIs that can ‘think’ (and no I don’t know how to define that) better than humans (and I don’t know how to define that) I’ll start to be getting rather worried about off switches.

[supZ]