ok so what this is my…. 2nd post?
well to be honest… i haven’t really done must research and i’m not quite sure as to how i’m going to structure my posts even though it suggest some ways in our handbook that was given out to us. So, I’m going to start by saying what I think I should learn by the end of this session, what I have learnt at the end of the session and I what I hope to do next time. Then of course, I will give out a few website addresses that I have picked up along the way.
Ok so.. What I hope to learn this lesson is a more detailed introduction to the world of Robotics and the idea of artificial intelligence, even though in my plan I have written; by the end of September 18th I would be doing ‘hardcore researching’ and ideas for building model…oops. See, this is what I don’t understand… No offence or anything to the teachers but, how exactly are we supposed to have researched and majorly understood this whole Science Spectacular thing on the holidays? They are expecting too much! We are supposed to ENJOY and RELAX on our holidays not have to be doing work and stressing over a Science project. Argh… homework should be illegal.
Ok well I’m glad I got that off my chest. Now…
Here’s my first site: http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/id/89632
It has a comparison of children and robots. It says that (and this is part of what I am learning for this session) children learn from experience – trial and error and most of the time we think that robots have to calculate every move they make. For example calculators have a specific program that structures their thinking… something like that.
“Traditional robotics relies on having the robots carry out complex calculations, such as measuring the geometry of an object and its expected trajectory if moved. But COSPAL has turned this around, making the robots perform tasks based on their own experiences and observations of humans. This trial and error approach could lead to more autonomous robots and even improve our understanding of the human brain” (excerpt from the website http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/id/89632)
This seems impossible, yet this idea is currently being carried out by COSPAL – the project that researchers from Linköping University in Sweden are working on. Researchers are trying to get robots to recognise objects without them having to recognise them based on geometric calculations and a visual input in which they are pre-programmed to do.
I am now becoming intrigued in this topic and are starting to enjoy it. YAY! I’m glad I chose this topic now.
“Robotic technology is advancing apace and now a top team of European scientists and engineers hope to make the leap from single function ‘dumb’ machines to adaptive learning machines”
Ok so that’s basically one idea of Artificial Intelligence, next blog I’m hoping to find more ideas based on the concept of AI, but for now that’s what I’ve researched because now I need to ENJOY my holidays.
Next time… I’m also hoping to meet up with Shruthi (on my holidays), watch AI and iRobot and she suggested just before when I spoke to her… to go to the State Library and research more there. Sometime next week maybe…
OH and also.. just a note to myself… I should probably go on AskNow next time I research just to get a more broad researching.
I’ll keep in touch, and maybe even add more to this blog later… maybe.
Naomi Ed
10/54
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Tags: 2nd post, children and robots, maybe
