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Dig a little DEEPER ~ THEI Archive Robots Replacing Humans
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Published on Dec 23, 2013
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, held a robotics competition in Miami, Fla. over the weekend. At the two-day event, the world’s best robots were put to the test, competing in tasks designed to help humans in natural or man-made disasters, including opening doors or climbing up stairs, by relying on sensors or cameras to understand their environment. A total of 16 teams competed for the $2 million prize. RT’s Nicholas O’Donovan attended the event and brings us more.
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Published on Oct 5, 2013
Boffins at Cambridge University want to set up a new centre to determine what humankind will do when ultra-intelligent machines like the Terminator or HAL pose “extinction-level” risks to our species. . . . From Description published with video.
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from NBC News
Posted by Devin Coldewey , NBC News
Robots that look like people are nothing new, but not all of them truly aim to imitate the human body. The Kenshiro robot, an ongoing project at the University of Tokyo, aims to simulate a person right down the muscles and bones.
Kenshiro is the latest in a series that started with Kenta, a robot made to imitate, in simplified form, most of the human body’s musculature. A quasi-futuristic shell and staring eyes gave it a slightly nightmarish appearance, but the robot itself was groundbreaking. With about 100 cables and motors, it simulated dozens of muscle structures. . . . Read Complete Report
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Robot Copies Your Muscles and Bones
Published on Dec 10, 2012
When I started to include “Robotics” as a Department here I did it because I noticed a lot of money – In tight times – going into the research of robots. Over the years I’ve noticed that when certain projects of science are being “pushed” by lots of money the Controllers figure in there somewhere.
It seems there is rush to make a more human robot. Why?
Could it have any thing to do with the plans of the Controllers to reduce the worlds population?
Could the Controllers riches be behind the unbelievable fast track to build a more human robot?
Is this part of the plans of the controllers to REPLACEhuman’s in the work place?
We continue to search for those answers. . . EDITOR
from youtube
Published on Apr 29, 2012 by Annie Lee
from GEEK.com
Aug. 17, 2012 (7:30 am) By: Laura Varley
Creating realistic, humanoid robots seems to be one thing the technology world hasn’t conquered successfully yet. Humanoid robots always seem to look frightening — right in the deepest depths of the uncanny vally — but at Disney animatronics are key for many of their attractions and rides. Disney Research has come up with a system that accurately recreates the face of any human and their facial expressions and put them onto an animatronic bot.
Disney calls the process “face cloning” and they accomplish just it by first making a 3D scan of the face. During the scan the subject performs a variety of facial expressions while the computer usesmotion capture technology to capture every detail of the expressions made, right down to where the wrinkles appear and how the skin moves. The result is a digital mesh of the face that Disney can use to create a design of a realistic robot head that will replicate each of the expressions the subject made during motion capture. , , , Read Complete Report
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Published on Aug 10, 2012 by DisneyResearchHub
We propose a complete process for designing, simulating, and fabricating synthetic skin for an animatronics character that mimics the face of a given subject and its expressions. The process starts with measuring the elastic properties of a material used to manufacture synthetic soft tissue. Given these measurements we use physics-based simulation to predict the behavior of a face when it is driven by the underlying robotic actuation. Next, we capture 3D facial expressions for a given target subject. As the key component of our process, we present a novel optimization scheme that determines the shape of the synthetic skin as well as the actuation parameters that provide the best match to the target expressions. We demonstrate this computational skin design by physically cloning a real human face onto an animatronics figure. . . . Posted with video at youtube
