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

Wed Nov 16 18:13:25 UTC 2011

I don't think the video is stopping and starting, I think the robot is.
This thing is nowhere near doneeacording to my dad

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Hey, this last link is the same vidio I saw. It is kind of hard to
tell what it is doing if you don't have someone telling you, which i
don't but, it still sounds loud and not sure hwy it keeps going and
stopping and not consistent unless it has something to do with them
dimistrating it.
Personally I would not like it. I do not like to draw so much
attenchen to myself. I try to walk quiet and not make a lot of noice,
but maybe i just became sinsitive to the sounds i make after I went
blind. IDK.

On 11/16/11, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com> wrote:
> Tami, why wouldn't you use this to cross streets?
> Showed the video to my dad and he said this thing is way far from being
> done. Not sure what he means so will ask. He does say that it looks like a
> dog.
> And for those that want it, here's the link
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/japanese-company-developing-robotic-guide-dog/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tami Kinney
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
>
> 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: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
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>>
>> 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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