2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?

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What does 2011 hold for the field of robotics? Plenty, if 2010 is any indication.

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Last May, Willow Garage, a Menlo Park, Calif., maker of robot hardware and software, released a test version of its personal robot platform. The PR2 includes a mobile base, two arms for manipulation, a suite of sensors and two computers, each with eight processing cores, 24 gigabytes of RAM and two terabytes of hard-disk space. The out-of-the-box robot, which costs $400,000, also features an operating system that handles the robot's computation and hardware manipulation functions.

"There are a lot of innovations in the PR2, but the most significant thing from my perspective is that it is a standardized, well-designed, well-tested platform that has a whole bunch of software that works right out of the box," says Charles Kemp, an assistant biomedical engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "You never had that situation before."

Kemp and his team at Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab, which he formed in 2007, are focused on creating robots that can safely and effectively help care for senior citizens.

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South Korea's Samsung Electronics is using the PR2 to enhance the company's existing robotics research in a country that hopes to put a robot in every home by 2020. The Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif., part of electronics and appliances maker The Bosch Group, has begun a two-year project to integrate its advanced sensor technology—including microelectromechanical system (MEMS), accelerometers, gyroscopes, force sensors, and air-pressure sensors—to improve the PR2's performance and reliability. Other beta-testing sites include Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the French National Center for Scientific Research's (CNRS) Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems.

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Robots are expected to play a key role in the "aware home," although it is unclear exactly what that role will be. "So far we've done a survey of older adults in the Atlanta area, and they were quite open to the idea of having robots in their home environment," Rogers says. "We'll be looking to determine what tasks older adults, over 65, are open to having done in the house, and then Charlie's team is going to program its PR2 to do those tasks. In the spring, we're going to move our PR2 over to the aware home and bring older adults there to give them a chance to interact with the robots in that home environment."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research

[The_Dude 1,142]

Seriously, why are South Korea and Japan so obsessed with robots?

[Peikko 1,575]

They're trying to create the perfect woman

[The_Dude 1,142]

They're trying to create the perfect woman

A wife with a remote control? I would think a certain demographic on this forum would be reading stories like this with their pants around their ankles.

[Ban Hammer 13,475]

They're trying to create the perfect woman

if she talks too much she can be reprogrammed!

Edited January 4, 2011 by charles!

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Seriously, why are South Korea and Japan so obsessed with robots?

declining, aging populations combined with a xenophobia that would make a klansman blush.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

They all dream of having their own Chii!

Seriously.... Watch Chobits, it's very telling of the future Japan wants (and warns of)...

[The_Dude 1,142]

They all dream of having their own Chii!

Seriously.... Watch Chobits, it's very telling of the future Japan wants (and warns of)...

Yeah, no, i'm not gonig to watch anime Paul.

Japan is a scary scary place. Their obsession with hello kitty seems quite normal when you actually see what they call porn.

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anime porn is deeply disturbing.

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anime porn is deeply disturbing.

disturbing is a 'light' word to use for what it is....

If about 75% of the stuff they put in there were 'legal,' society as a whole would be very very different...

[The_Dude 1,142]

anime porn is deeply disturbing.

QFT.

disturbing is a 'light' word to use for what it is....

If about 75% of the stuff they put in there were 'legal,' society as a whole would be very very different...

So I take it you are a connoisseur of animated porn?

[Obama 2012 1,714]

So I take it you are a connoisseur of animated porn?

AMV Hell 0....

All I've seen and all I'll ever need to see.

The worst part about 'AMV Hell 0' is that it's a compilation created by Americans....

They just couldn't stick with normal AMVs... and had to go there with '0'

[The_Dude 1,142]

AMV Hell 0....

All I've seen and all I'll ever need to see.

The worst part about 'AMV Hell 0' is that it's a compilation created by Americans....

They just couldn't stick with normal AMVs... and had to go there with '0'

Sorry, I'm not in on the animated porn speak. What does that mean in english?

On a side note, japanese porn, the regular kind is awful. ####### is up with the censored boxes?

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the anime porn ive watched has been the free clips on free porn sites. Good quality video but short in length (since it's free). i've watched a few before deciding they were all too weird for taste.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Sorry, I'm not in on the animated porn speak. What does that mean in english?

On a side note, japanese porn, the regular kind is awful. ####### is up with the censored boxes?

AMV is not 'animated porn speak'

AMV = Anime Music Video

The 'AMV Hell' series = a compilation of music/videos, there's even a full-length feature they did with it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spell.ufb/AMV_Hell