Some George Costanza-types at Carnegie Mellon have repurposed their own hard earned knowledge of Frogger maneuvers at the university arcade into useful object avoidance techniques for robots. They've outfitted both
ASIMO and
HRP-2 with versions of the technology, which allows the robots to detect their surroundings, create 3D maps of obstacles and plan routes accordingly (and actually has nothing to do with Frogger). If you check out the two videos after the break, you can see that these guys really put the bots through the ringer, including some death defying spinning obstacles that ASIMO avoided with ease, and the "real life" environment the HRP-2 is faced with... but seriously, couldn't they just let ASIMO have the blue dot already?
[Thanks, Poly Bug]
posted Aug 4th 2009 10:48AM
Up next...Donkey Kong!
Or ALIEN INVADAS!!!
Dance!!!!
actually they should put asimo on Wipeout.
http://www.youtube.com/user/wipeout?blend=1&ob=4
HRP-2 = Creepy
Asimo = Is cute and would make a nice robot overlord.
That's what Asimo WANTS you to think :-)
Imagine if you were playing tag with HRP-2, and he's it. That would be the scariest game ever. He moves slow but you know no matter where you go, he's gonna get you somehow. He's like a killer in horror movies. The killer never runs. But he somehow knows where you are and while you're gasping for life's breath hiding inside a closet, HRP-2's shadow appears through the door's slit.
That guy moving around the circle should watch out. Asimo might decide the best way to get there is to kill the thing that keeps moving it.
ASIMO looks like he's going "OH SHIT BAD TRIP WTF PINK THINGS SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT"
"Just calm down ASIMO. Stand still or they'll smell your fear. gotta get the blue dot. gotta get the blue dot..."
What happens if they put the blue dot on a red square?
I think all developers just lol'ed even if they will not admit it.
that's when it develops sentience and kills all the humans around it.
hehe true
i was thinking the same thing!
If you did that, ASIMO would most likely stop moving all together since it would wait until the A* algorithm tries to find a path (which it never will).
You know before I watched the video and was just looking at the picture of asimo with the pink obstacles. I couldn't help but think how much those obstacles looked like bridges then it dawned on me "the japanese are developing a giant walking robot".
Smooth moves Asimo.
Holy crap there already is a giant asimo
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/caption-contest-49-foot-asimo-makes-trees-dancers-look-tiny/
They need to give ASIMO pivoting ankles and more rotation in his hips so he doesn't have to sidestep so much. The lack of a pivoting ankle prohibits him a bit from walking completely naturally.
Still, this thing just keeps growing up. Next stop, world domination!
Nice, always fun to see what ASIMO's up to.
That song in the video is from Wip3out Pure btw. "Intro" by "Paul Hartnoll". Good stuff
How long until we see Asimo remaking the Jamiroquai video?
Robots walk like old men
"... little did they know it, but the researchers cruelly playing 'keep-away' with their young creation sowed the seeds of their own destruction. As the AI software became increasingly frustrated with it's inability to reach it's goal, it altered it's ruleset, and realized that some of the pink things in the room COULD be stepped on to reach it's goal.
Unfortunately, those pink things were the researchers..."
this is one of the things i'm missing out on by going to college down the street from CMU instead of at CMU. well, that and paying over $80,000 more for college.
It's amazing to think how far we've come with technology... to think that a couple of decades ago we didn't even have computers, and now look where we are.
Well I for one welcome our gigantic walking robot overlords
... sorry, I had to say it.
I can has blue dot?
What happens when the obstacle is thicker than a sheet of paper? There were several times that had that been a lamp, Asimo would have kicked it right over.
he can tell whether its paper or a lamp. i would hope.
ASIMO is getting more impressive every day.
I for one welcome our future robotic overlords.
In my mind Asimo is terrified of the red shapes and needs to eat the blue thingy.
Poor Asimo :(
It's like watching Lucy pull the football away from Charlie Brown at the last second..
Seriously engadget, we need a recession antidote and you need to have it be the Asimo.....
Boy, that little robot just doesn't quit, huh? I wonder when their going to teach robots that humans are just messing with them and that there's no point in following the blue circle...
Are they ever gonna shrink down that humongous backpack on ASIMO? Seriously, he looks like he's ready to take a trek across Europe with that honkin thing on his back.
I did the same with a blond and a flash light.
Am I the only one who'd surround him in pink and then leave a tiny gap, watch him try and break for it then fill it and slowly make the circle of pink around him smaller, wait that just sounded wrong, ok i'll stop.
After watching that, I really want to see an implementation of a real life Pac-Man with ASIMOs playing both Pac-Man and Ghosts.
Asimo: "Stop moving the blue dot human!"
Then, its "backpack" turns into a laser and shoots the human, turning the engineer into a pile of pink dust.
(surpirse cameo)
Toyota's Robot (does it have a name?): Running across the room. "Aaaaahhhh. Run. For. Your. Lives!"
on the second video at the end ASIMO was
totally trying to block the dude from moving the blue circle
side-stepping and all lol
The right technique is to develop robots with singular purposes rather than fully autonomous robots that can do it all. Make a set of robots that chooses targets and another robot that does the shooting. Make one robot choose which person needs healing and another robot does the traveling and heals the person.
Separate the functionality of robots so we don't have T1000's roaming the streets.
That is Plan B, in my opinion. The best option is for human-cybernetics. Our scientists and engineers should focus on enhancing human capabilities rather than outsourcing decision making to artificial intelligence.
http://new-cybernetics.romel-edmond.com
I think it's pretty basic what they've achieved.
Think about it. Apart from environment mapping (which has existed for a long time), computer game characters (AI) have been doing the exact same things for ages.
The only difference really is this is real, and not virtual. We're ridiculously behind in things like AI and robotics, and it's mainly due to the fact that companies woke up a little too late. What you see in this video was possible a long time ago, and should have been done maybe 10-20 years ago.