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botic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab. " We create socially intelligent robotic creatures that communicate with us, cooperate with us, and learn from us as capable partners."
Shakey the Robot, from SRI's innovation timeline:"From 1966 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) conducted research on a mobile robot system nicknamed ìShakey.î Endowed with a limited ability to perceive and model its environment, Shakey could perform tasks that required planning, route-finding, and the rearranging of simple objects. Although the Shakey project led to numerous advances in AI techniques, many of which were reported in the literature, much specific information appears only in a series of previously relatively inaccessible SRI technical reports." Those reports and other resources are now available and can be accessed from this SRI page.
Also see this related article: Robot learns to grasp everyday chores. By Brian D. Lee. Stanford Report (November 8, 2006). "Stanford scientists plan to make a robot capable of performing everyday tasks, such as unloading the dishwasher. By programming the robot with 'intelligent' software that enables it to pick up objects it has never seen before, the scientists are one step closer to creating a real life Rosie, the robot maid from The Jetsons cartoon show. 'Within a decade we hope to develop the technology that will make it useful to put a robot in every home and office,' said Andrew Ng, an assistant professor of computer science who is leading the wireless Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project. ... Stanford has a history of leading the field of artificial intelligence. In 1966, scientists at the Stanford Research Institute built Shakey, the first robot to combine problem solving, movement and perception. Flakey, a robot that could wander independently, followed. In 2005, Stanford engineers won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge with Stanley, a robot Volkswagen that autonomously drove 132 miles through a desert course. The ultimate aim for artificial intelligence is to build a robot that can create and execute plans to achieve a goal. 'The last serious attempt to do something like this was in 1966 with the Shakey project led by Nils Nilsson,' Ng said. 'This is a project in Shakey's tradition, done with 2006 technology instead of 1966 AI technology.' To succeed, the scientists will need to unite fragmented research areas of artificial intelligence including speech processing, navigation, manipulation, planning, reasoning, machine learning and vision."
And see:
Shakey's page at The Robot Hall of Fame,
the 1972 video, Shakey the Robot, just one of the Shakey videos that can be found in our AI Videos collection.
Stanley "Volkswagen wins robotic race across the desert", By David L Chandler. NewScientist news (October 10, 2005). "A robotic Volkswagen called 'Stanley', developed by a team from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, won a $2 million prize on Sunday for winning a tough desert race of driverless vehicles.... 'These vehicles haven't just achieved world records, they have made history,' says DARPA director Tony Tether."
Vikia and the Social Robot Project. "The goal of the Social Robot Project is to overcome the human-robot social barrier. Towards this end, we are in the process of developing a robot which bears a personality, and which can behave according to social conventions. The idea is that communication and interaction with robots should be easy and enjoyable, both for unfamiliar users and trained professionals. We want robots to behave more like people, so that people do not have to behave like robots when they interact with them."
"At CMU [Carnegie Mellon University], Grace serves as VIKIA's sucessor as a platform for the social robots project."
The Robotics Institute at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Check out their collection of projects and find out who Pearl is . . . and what a HeartLanderdoes.
Seven Amazing Robots That Will Change Your Life, from Forbes.com.
List of Famous Robots with videos from YouTube.