RoboDevelopment: Gambling Robots Are Fun, As Long As They Don’t Lose
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 29 of October , 2007 at 4:50 am
One of the major themes on the expo floor at RoboDevelopment was visual pattern recognition. That is, robots being able to look at an object, know what it is, and react to it. This video shows a custom-built humanoid robot playing dice with one of its developers from Virginia Tech (who apologized for the fact that the robot’s head was in fact attached to a different robot). This isn’t new technology, but what IS new is that the robot is being controlled by commercially available software with these pattern recognition abilities standard, no complicated programming necessary. It’s not even developer software, it’s something that you can teach yourself to use for healthy tasks like robot gambling in an hour or two from scratch. It’s called LabView, and I’ll be talking about it in more detail later on.
Oh, and what happens if this robot DOES lose? Apparently, I don’t want to know, but it may or may not involve a robotic punch in the spleen.
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