Humanoido wrote:
This review raises an interesting point. To what degree of autonomy is required to make our robots more robot? Are there special functions required, such as fetching a beer, doing dishes, taking a security role, and doing self maintenance?
humanoido
This review raises an interesting point. To what degree of autonomy is required to make our robots more robot? Are there special functions required, such as fetching a beer, doing dishes, taking a security role, and doing self maintenance?
humanoido
It really depends. There are two different crowds regarding this. I'm in the autonomous camp, so I believe my robot should be loaded with telemetry sensors with decision making process, with walking/exploring in between the decision making and the sensing.
Then there's the other camp that likes it to be radio (or sometimes infra-red in the case of i-sobots) controlled. Both are just as valid, as there are RC Cars and Rovers (which are usually a mechanically crude form of an RC car with autonomous functions).
I think both forms of "robots" are valid. What makes a robot a robot is definition and definition only IMO. I consider some humans "robotic" sometimes
My definition of a robot is any mechanical device that aids humans, either physically or emotionally (or economically for some business owners such as Netflix or Toyota).
Statistics: Posted by tom_chang79 — Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:02 pm
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