First Year Robotics

W.S. Harwin, University of Reading

Previous Lecture

Lecture 5: Affordance, cooperation, evolution and society

Affordance

Passive dynamic walking

Full Screen Walking robot-robot Andador Full Screen Walking toy (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/0376588.pdf) Full Screen Sano Lab. at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Full Screen and falling

Internal models

Figure 1: Internal model structure proposed by Hod Lipson
Figure 2: Conceptual relationship between internal model and conciousness proposed by Owen Holland
Full Screen Hod Lipson at TED (3.00-4.30) Full Screen internal models to allow recovery from damage CCSL

Cooperation

Small size

Full Screen CMDragons 06 Full Screen RoboCup 2005 Smallsize League Final

Reconfigurable or metamorphic robots

Full Screen polypod veranda Full Screen caterpilla Full Screen Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart

Dictyostelium

Full Screen Dictyostelium - John Bonner

Evolutionary

Peppered moth (Biston betularia) Light coloured pepper moth Dark coloured pepper moth

Full Screen Brandis Gollem project Full Screen Simulation of Evolution by Natural Selection Karl Sims Full Screen Karl Sims on Daniel Dennets Full Screen Nicolas Lassabe Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL)

Robot ethics and morals

See notes

Other robots

Full Screen Essex fish, EPFL, CUM, ULB-EPFL, Tokyo Institute of Technology Full Screen Paro

Science museum Lates science of surgery - see robotic and haptic surgical systems in action