[Heartlogic-dev] Re: check out robosapien dance machine

[William L. Jarrold]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 18:54 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> > http://www.robodance.com/ might be worth checking out.  you control
> > some sort of robot, e.g. with your voice.  might make nice flash
> > animations of somethign for when you hit marvin the head with a hammer.
>
> Even though it is GPL, it's Windows only.

Yes.  But somewhere I saw on a website that a linux version
is in the works.

For Josh and Peter here is what this is:  Robosapiens is this
approx $80 humanoid robot (maybe 15 inches tall) that you can by.
One gets the sense that the interface is kinda sucky.  Robert Oschler and
co at http://www.robodance.com/ have made some kind of interface that 
allows you to interact at a higher level.  Maybe there are macros for
behhaviors.  There is even a voice recognition system so you can
give it simple commands like "walk forward".  The videos I have seen are
hilarioius.

The above URL has the speech activiated demo.

There is a funny video, a spoof on Saturday Night Live Hans and Frans "We 
will pump you up" at....

http://www.robotsrule.com/html/robot.php

...the names of the two robots are Chrome and Dome...search the page for 
this section and click on whatever works...

QuickTime Movie Format (mov)

    Episode I High Quality - 24 MB

    Episode I Low Quality - 8 MB

AVI Movie Format

    Episode I High Quality - 37 MB

    Episode I Low Quality - 16 MB

Maybe we could ask Robert Oschler to make a video of Chrome hitting Dome 
on the head when a user rates somethign as incorrect and some sort of
positive feedback interaction btwn the two robots otherwise.

He has sent mildly frustrated emails to the opencyc mailing list and 
wants help with Cyc.  So, he's wanting to do something with Cyc.  He 
might be an interesting person with whom to collab.  I emailed him but I'd 
be surprised if he wrote back.

Bill

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