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

Wed Nov 16 22:07:54 UTC 2011

LOL, whose not. *grin*

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: New From Japan: Robotic Guide Dog.

> 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>
>> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> 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
>>> 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: [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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