Saturday, May 7, 2011

Robots learn to march / spell, still not capable of love



Here's hoping there's more than a few military-style marches standing between us and a complete robotic takeover. If not, we've got some dire news: these are not simply miniature Roombas as they may appear, but 15 so-called Khepera bots capable of spelling out GRITS (for Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems) to demonstrate grad student Edward Macdonald's Master's thesis for the department. The diminutive robots aren't told where to go in the letters -- instead, they determine their spots via a control algorithm, positioning themselves relative to their fellow rolling machines, so that if one is removed from the equation, they quickly reform the letter without it. Fortunately, they haven't learned to spell "KILL." Yet. Get to know your new robotic overlords a little bit better in the video after the break.

13 comments:

  1. "still not capable of love"

    that was amusing to me because I was playing Portal 2 yesterday and found Weighted Companion Cube!

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  2. this is so creepy to me. if i saw that i'd think it was the devil trying to say something. lol i'm not ready for the future...

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  3. nice video :) no love for them though :(

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  4. This is pretty intense, lets just make sure they dont take over the world now
    How to Hack Life.

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  5. They look like little robots bugs. >< Kinda creepy, but still cool.

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  6. It's amazing how AI has developed over the year. Can't wait to see what it will be like 5 years to come!

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  7. That's brilliant, I found it funny at like 1:20 when it looked like an arm was just stealing a robot

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  8. This is AMAzING bro!!! I so happy I found your blog. You got a new follower!

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