Members ChordGirl Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 This entire video is mind-blowing, but the musician's wow comes at 14:25. I had to share this! http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NoRomoFan Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Is SkyNet being built? I could see some really bad applications that they could be used for. Otherwise pretty amazing the software that was developed to enable them to fly like that autonomously. If they put weaponry on them Lord help us all. I'm sure DARPA and DOD will be interested in military recon and intelligence gathering capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChordGirl Posted March 5, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 It's pretty impressive. It's relatively modern Sci-fi coming into reality. One of the applications showed the robots being able to fly into an unknown building and map it 3 dimensionally in real time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpaceNorman Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Any notice that just like in real life - the drummer robot has having a hard time keeping the tempo right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members kmart Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Any notice that just like in real life - the drummer robot has having a hard time keeping the tempo right? And in real life, it's totally a result of getting bad data from the band leader (programmer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted March 6, 2012 Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 Very interesting stuff indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pickinatit Posted March 6, 2012 Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 :facepalm:I'm getting too old for this S**t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members n9ne Posted March 6, 2012 Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 Very cool stuff, indeed. Remote control is one thing....but these robots are simply given a task, and they're able to figure out for themselves the best way to do it. Pretty incredible. That said.....whenever I see stuff like this, I can't help thinking it's just one step closer to a robots-vs.-mankind apocalypse, a la Terminator. More food for thought: as much as this technology would revolutionize industries like construction, manufacturing, and cargo transport, can you imagine how many human jobs would be eliminated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChordGirl Posted March 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 Very cool stuff, indeed. Remote control is one thing....but these robots are simply given a task, and they're able to figure out for themselves the best way to do it. Pretty incredible. That said.....whenever I see stuff like this, I can't help thinking it's just one step closer to a robots-vs.-mankind apocalypse, a la Terminator.More food for thought: as much as this technology would revolutionize industries like construction, manufacturing, and cargo transport, can you imagine how many human jobs would be eliminated? Assuming it becomes efficient enough to handle heavy weight capacities, yes indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jimiv Posted March 6, 2012 Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 Assuming it becomes efficient enough to handle heavy weight capacities, yes indeed. Yep, I think the technological singularity may happen in our lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChordGirl Posted March 7, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 7, 2012 It's quite possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted March 7, 2012 Members Share Posted March 7, 2012 It's pretty impressive. It's relatively modern Sci-fi coming into reality. One of the applications showed the robots being able to fly into an unknown building and map it 3 dimensionally in real time. Yeah, I think we know where all this is going.... VERY cool stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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