W.S. Harwin

March 2016

Index
Previous Lecture

Humanoid robotics ≠ intelligence

We appear to have become obsessed (and distracted) by the idea that simulating the form of humans will simulate our intelligence.

Affordance

Passive dynamic walking

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

Internal models

Hod Lipson at TED (3.00-4.30)

Cooperation

Small size

Robots are 180mm dia, 150mm high
Two Camera above to process the pictures

CMU Robosoccer >small size

CMDragons 06 RoboCup 2005 Smallsize League Final

Reconfigurable or metamorphic robots

http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/modrobots/ Modular Reconfigurable Robotics Polypod
http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/mark/polypod.html Polypod stanford
http://www2.parc.com/spl/projects/modrobots/chain/polypod/index.html Polypod Mark Yim
http://custer.me.jhu.edu/research/metamorphic_robot.html Hopkins metaporphic robots

Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart Cubelets from Modrobotics.com

Slime mould (Dictyostelium)

Slime mould (Dictyostelium)

Dictyostelium - John Bonner

http://herbie.ucsd.edu/~levine/dicty.html Dictyostelium Patterns Research (Wed 14 Mar 2001)
http://dictybase.org/Multimedia/ An Online Informatics Resource for Dictyostelium (Wed 14 Mar 2001)
http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/~firtel/video.htm Dictyostelium videos (Wed 14 Mar 2001)

Evolutionary

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

Robot ethics

to be completed...

Other robots

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

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

Maja Mataric Robots that care

Questions?