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

Wed Nov 16 18:22:21 UTC 2011

I think I'd loose something something by using a robotic contraption.  The 
personability of a dog.  But, you wouldn't have to relieve the thing! 
Although, I wonder how expensive it would be to continually update its 
souftware and clean up its movable parts?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.


>I don't think the video is stopping and starting, I think the robot is.
> This thing is nowhere near doneeacording to my dad
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
> Of Lea williams
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
>
> 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
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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