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Utter Boredom

I've refined and improved the Rodney robot's "bored" behavior. Instead on moving the head of the robot either left or right completely at random I've refined this behavior such that although the choice of gaze direction is still a random one the selection is biased towards directions where the robot has previously observed something interesting in the recent past. Biasing the selection of gaze direction in this way allows the robot to more frequently make "lucky guesses", in that the "bored" search routine more often hits upon something of interest. Superficially, it appears as though the robot has "remembered" something that it previously saw and is looking to see if it's still there.

- Bob

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Saturday 08 December, 12:22
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Robotic Pets

Do you sometimes wonder what the hell it's doing, or is it always obvious what the current 'mode' is?

It seems this sort of behaviour is very similar to that of simple mammels, performing on a mostly reactive basis... cats for example aren't too bright, and don't have that much ability for stringing thoughts together. The difference being they have more complex 'evolved' behaviours, which makes them interesting to humans.

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Monday 10 December, 08:28
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The Owl and the Pussycat

I would be more than happy if I could build something with the intelligence level of a cat. Even the most advanced robots built to date probably have substantially less intellect and adaptability than the average insect (certainly far fewer neurons anyway). I don't think that human-level intelligence will be remotely possible for a very long time to come, although people on this discussion group are welcome to prove me wrong :-)

- Bob

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Monday 10 December, 14:33
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Artificial Pets

Aiming for something like a cat seems feasible in the medium term... then again (to contradict myself), I'm not sure if copying mammel behaviours is necessarily a 'Good Thing'.

Since robots are actually based on completely different 'bodies', I'm sure they will eventually spawn their own kind of complex behaviours - completely different and potentially just as appealing to humans as animals...

See the 'Bugs' robots in this previous thread, which is a big step towards this.

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Wednesday 12 December, 05:57
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