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

Wed Nov 16 19:12:24 UTC 2011

Well, you shouldn't have to clean up its movable parts that often. You might get attached to the thing. I am attached to my Iphone. <Giggle>

On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:

> 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>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.
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> 
>> 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
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> 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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