Robots that smell, and know who you are!
Tons of news coming out every day about new and exciting robots!
Forbes has a story "7 Amazing Robots That Will Change Lives", which includes a suit that will give you extra strength and stamina, Pleo (an artificial lifeform/pet), robotic surgeons, robot cars that drive on their own, robotic toys for learning, and more!
They also have a slide show for "25 Great Moments in Robotics History".
But, we start to get to the meat when we see news about the engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan who've already achieved some success with an "odour recorder" ... it can actually record, and then later play back smells. While this is not directly related to robots at this time, I can certainly see this feature being added to robots of all kinds for various uses. Certainly you'd want your android to be able to interact with you on smells.. both good and bad! Think of what this will do to the entertainment industry (movie theaters, home theaters, video games), or fields of research, hunting/tracking (better than dogs), food service industry (even those yukky veggies can smell great), and the possibilities go on.
Along the lines of artificial intelligence.... Google has teamed up with the Neven Vision team, and are now adding face recognition software to Gmail and their photo sharing site Picasa in the effort to help recognize and organize photos of people, places and things automatically. So, what's the bigger picture? Once Google has a database of thousands of various images and angles of, say, the Big Ben clock in London, then software could automatically, and dynamically create a 3-D model, or online tour in a virtual world. You could upload a picture of yourself or someone else, and software could search the database, and find other photos of that same person, perhaps matching a name and even email address. What if this technology was added to androids? Which were constantly connected (wirelessly) to the internet. The android could take one look at any person, search the database, and have a good chance of finding the persons (or your) name. Maybe with further searching, your email address, physical address, your resume, and a host of other information. Might be GREAT to have a companion robot who could escort you around a new foreign city telling you everything about the history, and best sights to see.
Forbes has a story "7 Amazing Robots That Will Change Lives", which includes a suit that will give you extra strength and stamina, Pleo (an artificial lifeform/pet), robotic surgeons, robot cars that drive on their own, robotic toys for learning, and more!
They also have a slide show for "25 Great Moments in Robotics History".
But, we start to get to the meat when we see news about the engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan who've already achieved some success with an "odour recorder" ... it can actually record, and then later play back smells. While this is not directly related to robots at this time, I can certainly see this feature being added to robots of all kinds for various uses. Certainly you'd want your android to be able to interact with you on smells.. both good and bad! Think of what this will do to the entertainment industry (movie theaters, home theaters, video games), or fields of research, hunting/tracking (better than dogs), food service industry (even those yukky veggies can smell great), and the possibilities go on.
Along the lines of artificial intelligence.... Google has teamed up with the Neven Vision team, and are now adding face recognition software to Gmail and their photo sharing site Picasa in the effort to help recognize and organize photos of people, places and things automatically. So, what's the bigger picture? Once Google has a database of thousands of various images and angles of, say, the Big Ben clock in London, then software could automatically, and dynamically create a 3-D model, or online tour in a virtual world. You could upload a picture of yourself or someone else, and software could search the database, and find other photos of that same person, perhaps matching a name and even email address. What if this technology was added to androids? Which were constantly connected (wirelessly) to the internet. The android could take one look at any person, search the database, and have a good chance of finding the persons (or your) name. Maybe with further searching, your email address, physical address, your resume, and a host of other information. Might be GREAT to have a companion robot who could escort you around a new foreign city telling you everything about the history, and best sights to see.
posted by rock808 at 8/19/2006 12:39:00 PM
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