Topic: Japan to produce Mech's within 20 years?

[EE]

Its possible if they keep going at this rate. WHo else would attempt to produce Mech's? Not us.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/top_nf.html

[Bonk]

Link no worky...  (You mean like battletech or like honda's Asimo?)  

[Towelie]

  Hey man, fix the link so I can know what the heck it's all about. I need my link now man!

[TOCXOBearslayer]

Bumpage for linkage correction

[EE]

Yeah, but where to I interface with it at? Is it made from a feel real material?

[BortaS]

Isn't this old news?  

[Bonk]

Looks like they took a lot from Asimo, but also added a lot.

The interview with the engineer Tosh*tada Doi was quite interesting... this guy knows what he's doing and I'd say somewhat of a visionary:

 

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Will we ever see robots fighting against humans like in the sci-fi films?

I think we can say pretty definitively that as long as we're using these Neumann-type computers there's no fear of that happening. For example, the psychologist Carl Jung had a theory of the collective unconscious, which stated that humans and animals were all connected on a fundamental psychological level and became the basis for much if not all of the work in psychology that followed it. We haven't figured out the physics of that quite yet. The Neumann-type computers we use today are mere calculators, and so contain no psychological function. They simply execute the thoughts of their programmer, that is to say the thoughts of a human being. Although they can learn new facts and new words, they can only do so insofar as a human has enabled them to.  

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 Yeah, but where to I interface with it at? Is it made from a feel real material?
 

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 Thinking broadly, would you say non-human-like robots could be developed?

Oh, yes. A robot's body doesn't have to be humanoid. However, in the case of an entertainment robot, people seem to form an emotional connection more easily with a robot that walks on two legs. Humans seem to have a particular sensibility for things that resemble themselves. There are cells in the brain called mirror cells; they're structured so that when you see someone drink a cup of tea, the cells in your brain that get stimulated when you drink a cup of tea get stimulated. Knowing that from neurological science, it was essential to make our entertainment robot bipedal.

Rest assured it will come... (no pun intended).

P.S. I think the name stinks.

[EE]

Its possible if they keep going at this rate. WHo else would attempt to produce Mech's? Not us.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/top_nf.html

[Bonk]

Link no worky...  (You mean like battletech or like honda's Asimo?)  

[Towelie]

  Hey man, fix the link so I can know what the heck it's all about. I need my link now man!

[TOCXOBearslayer]

Bumpage for linkage correction

[EE]

Yeah, but where to I interface with it at? Is it made from a feel real material?

[BortaS]

Isn't this old news?  

[Bonk]

Looks like they took a lot from Asimo, but also added a lot.

The interview with the engineer Tosh*tada Doi was quite interesting... this guy knows what he's doing and I'd say somewhat of a visionary:

 

Quote:
Will we ever see robots fighting against humans like in the sci-fi films?

I think we can say pretty definitively that as long as we're using these Neumann-type computers there's no fear of that happening. For example, the psychologist Carl Jung had a theory of the collective unconscious, which stated that humans and animals were all connected on a fundamental psychological level and became the basis for much if not all of the work in psychology that followed it. We haven't figured out the physics of that quite yet. The Neumann-type computers we use today are mere calculators, and so contain no psychological function. They simply execute the thoughts of their programmer, that is to say the thoughts of a human being. Although they can learn new facts and new words, they can only do so insofar as a human has enabled them to.  

 Q:

Quote:
 Yeah, but where to I interface with it at? Is it made from a feel real material?
 

A:  

Quote:
 Thinking broadly, would you say non-human-like robots could be developed?

Oh, yes. A robot's body doesn't have to be humanoid. However, in the case of an entertainment robot, people seem to form an emotional connection more easily with a robot that walks on two legs. Humans seem to have a particular sensibility for things that resemble themselves. There are cells in the brain called mirror cells; they're structured so that when you see someone drink a cup of tea, the cells in your brain that get stimulated when you drink a cup of tea get stimulated. Knowing that from neurological science, it was essential to make our entertainment robot bipedal.

Rest assured it will come... (no pun intended).

P.S. I think the name stinks.

[EE]

Its possible if they keep going at this rate. WHo else would attempt to produce Mech's? Not us.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/top_nf.html

[Bonk]

Link no worky...  (You mean like battletech or like honda's Asimo?)  

[Towelie]

  Hey man, fix the link so I can know what the heck it's all about. I need my link now man!

[TOCXOBearslayer]

Bumpage for linkage correction

[EE]

Yeah, but where to I interface with it at? Is it made from a feel real material?

[BortaS]

Isn't this old news?  

[Bonk]

Looks like they took a lot from Asimo, but also added a lot.

The interview with the engineer Tosh*tada Doi was quite interesting... this guy knows what he's doing and I'd say somewhat of a visionary:

 

Quote:
Will we ever see robots fighting against humans like in the sci-fi films?

I think we can say pretty definitively that as long as we're using these Neumann-type computers there's no fear of that happening. For example, the psychologist Carl Jung had a theory of the collective unconscious, which stated that humans and animals were all connected on a fundamental psychological level and became the basis for much if not all of the work in psychology that followed it. We haven't figured out the physics of that quite yet. The Neumann-type computers we use today are mere calculators, and so contain no psychological function. They simply execute the thoughts of their programmer, that is to say the thoughts of a human being. Although they can learn new facts and new words, they can only do so insofar as a human has enabled them to.  

 Q:

Quote:
 Yeah, but where to I interface with it at? Is it made from a feel real material?
 

A:  

Quote:
 Thinking broadly, would you say non-human-like robots could be developed?

Oh, yes. A robot's body doesn't have to be humanoid. However, in the case of an entertainment robot, people seem to form an emotional connection more easily with a robot that walks on two legs. Humans seem to have a particular sensibility for things that resemble themselves. There are cells in the brain called mirror cells; they're structured so that when you see someone drink a cup of tea, the cells in your brain that get stimulated when you drink a cup of tea get stimulated. Knowing that from neurological science, it was essential to make our entertainment robot bipedal.

Rest assured it will come... (no pun intended).

P.S. I think the name stinks.