DLD09 live

1. Robots: Autonomus Vehicles and Creativity

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   Presenters:

   Roy Roth & Yaal Tevet (Roth-Tevet Experience Design Studio)
   Sergej Lupashin & Raffaello D'Andrea
   Amir Shapiro (BGU Department of Mechanical Engineering)
   Moderation: Dan Dubno

   We see swimming robots, flying autonomous robots, autonomous robots playing soccer.

   The ETH robot group presents:

   Amazing: A self assembling robot chair.

   Is it ok do do stuff like this before curing cancer?
   It is a step in a creative process that can lead to self repairing systems.

   Kiva robots help in Warehouses - and were developed after doing robot soccer:

   [thos was not in the session:]
   Or perform the nutcracker suite:
   

   Other projects are:
   Flying robots that fall apart in air and reassemble on the ground.

   Autonomous quadrocopters:
   see http://flyingmachinearena.com.

   Those flying robots play badminton with other flying robots or with humans - at least they will soon.

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   How can ro bots move in rough terrain?
   A snake robot from the BGU in Israel can.
   Just watch:
   

   Robots using glue or magnets can climb walls. The glue-climber is also called a 'snail inspired robot'. If you just use sticky tape on wheels it is less messy. But you can also use the cat method and give the robot 'claws'.

   Roy Roth & Yaal Tevet (Roth-Tevet Experience Design Studio), Israel:

   Their "housekeeping robot" can even handle porcellain dishes.

   Their soundscape is an area of autonomous robots that create a musical landscape and the listeners can walk through it:

   Where are robots going?

   If robots really become intelligent, there is no way to know what they will do.

   What about robots used for fighting. Do we need to be afraid of them? What about robot ethics?

   Isaac Asimov thought about the 'Three laws of robotics', but they are not applied right now. Robots are just tools, it is important what people do with them.

   Like we can heal robots will finally be able to repair themselves.

   The reward of untargeted research about robots can be great. You cannot only do trageted reserach. Flying robots are not necessarily military reserach.

   We do things with robots now that many thought impossible 10 years ago, like hovering robots that do flips.

   "What is better than playing with toys?" But: The snakes can crawl under collapsed buildings and help rescue people. In the USA robots are already used in such a way. (Carnegie Melon)
   

   

   Oliver Gassner
   Autonomous robots can do amazing things: Climb, swim, make music, fly... and re-assemble themselves.

   January 26, 2009
   12:19 PM