[nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.

[Tami Kinney]

Well, my inner science geek is just tickled pink by the whole notion of 
the robotic guide dog. Cool toys just flip my switch and I can't help 
it. /lol/

The rest of me just does *not* know what to think. Okay, so it can take 
me safely up and down stairs... Would I cross the street with it? Nope. 
I want poodle power and poodle brains for that!

Interesting times, I guess.

Tami



On 11/16/2011 05:53 AM, frandi.galindo at gmail.com wrote:
> I don't know about you all, but I would feel extremely and I mean
> extremely weird if I had a machine as a guide. Especially one that looks
> like a dog. Its just not normal. Ok, I know we have Global positioning
> systems that many of us blind or visually impaired individuals use to
> help us get around, but so do the sighted. A machine can't show you the
> emotional support that a real live dog can. I will stop now before I go
> in to a book long rant, but do you see where I am going with this?
> Nothing is as good as the real thing. The living will always do better
> than the machine. At least with guiding.
>
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> Subject: [nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
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> Subject: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
>
>
> BITS.
> New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
> NY Times Monday, 2011_11_14
> By NICK BILTON. Guide dogs for the blind
> could soon be out of a job.
> NSK, a Japanese company, is hard at work on a robotic dog that can roll
> across
> floors,
> climb stairs and assist those with limited or no sight. The robots, which
> can be
> seen in the video above, have been in the works for several years. The
> latest
> version
> is the third.
> The newest robot can move up to 10 times faster than the company's previous
> ones.
> Its legs have been improved to help it avoid collisions and tripping over
> itself.
> According to NSK, the machines are technically called 'quadruped walking
> robots,'
> because they use four legs to move.
> Robotics researchers have also given the latest guide dog the gift of sight
> by
> adding
> a Microsoft Kinect camera to its head. This can help it to navigate stairs
> and
> other
> obstacles. Kinect cameras are traditionally used for video games on the
> Microsoft
> Xbox 360 but are also often used in robotics projects.
> The company will exhibit the latest version of the robot this week at the
> 2011
> International
> Robot Exhibition in Ariake, Japan.
>
>
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