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Visually guided pointing

Using the new arms the robot is able to point to objects which may be of interest. The arm (either the left or right one depending on which direction the robot is looking in) points at an angle and elevation appropriate to the current head position. It's possible that this sort of activity could be implemented as a learned behavior, but in this case I've just used some elementory maths to calculate the correct pointing angles.

Pointing is useful because to a casual observer without any knowledge of the internal state of the robot it's an obvious external signal saying "I'm interested in that". It can also facilitate visual labeling of the world. Concievably, the robot might point to an object and say "what is that?". A human teacher could then provide a suitable label either as text input or via some sort of speech recognition.

- Bob

http://www.fuzzgun.btinternet.co.uk/rodney16.jpg

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Sunday 30 December, 16:13
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Here's ageneral description of the robot.

- Bob

http://www.fuzzgun.btinternet.co.uk/rodney/rodney.htm

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