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Apparently mankind is incapable of internalizing the warnings of much of Western civilization’s science fiction.
For a couple of years now, folks have given the side-eye to the robotic dog that can surveil , get around obstacles, and carry a sniper rifle .
But that fake K-9 is nothing compared to what Engineered Arts has put out.
Despite the warnings the world received in “I,Robot” and the “Terminator” movies, the British tech company has decided to give the world Ameca , which the company calls “The Future Face of Robotics.”
And it’s even more freaky-deaky than you think.
Ameca, according to Engineered Arts, is the “perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction.” The line was apparently written by someone with little actual human-human interaction, because the creepy sure-you-can-trust-me expressions from the robots are far from normal interaction. The really good news? These lifelike robots are set to be the platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning.What could possibly go wrong?
Read the whole story at www.theblaze.com
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Wow. In 10 years those things will be common in everyday world.
Meh, a few actuators strategically placed to mimic muscle and bone positioning in the human face and hands, with some fake skin on top, to produce pre-programmed expressions.
They’ll probably make some money off of it as a novelty, but that’s all it is – a novelty. It’s basically no different than programmed facial expressions of virtual 3D characters on screen. The only difference is that you’re moving motors to drive actuators to position through and within Cartesian coordinates rather than pixels on the screen.
Endeavors such as this are driven mostly by miniaturization and the fact that motors, actuators, and means to control them are becoming inexpensive, and not by any major huge technological leaps. The technology to do this existed many decades ago – but it would’ve costed far more than it was worth.
The mechanical design and machining is the impressive part, as far as I’m concerned. That’s a lot of small and precise parts – which took a lot of time and effort to produce – I’d wager, ironically, quite a bit of which was probably done on manual mills and lathes. Still not as impressive, though, as engraving the Lord’s Prayer onto the head of a straight pin, which was done by Gorton Machine, using one of their pantograph mills, in 1934.
And a human being engraved the Lord’s Prayer onto the head of a straight pin, several decades before that.
Which just goes to show how advanced we really aren’t.
I would be interested (as I’m sure most would) in seeing their motion control code, particularly as it relates to acceleration. Making motors accelerate and decelerate in a manner that very closely mimics natural motion, across many various types of muscle movements and subsequent acceleration profiles, would be an interesting algorithm – IF it even exists – more likely it doesn’t and they pre-programmed the acceleration also, for specific expressions and transitions between. But human muscles don’t move according to the same acceleration profile all the time. The human body is far more complex than that.