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Title: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: crest on July 12, 2009, 10:25:02 AM
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/robotsmile/

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A robot has taught itself to smile, frown, and make other human facial expressions using machine learning.

To get the incredibly realistic Einstein robot to make facial expressions, researchers used to have to program each of its 31 artificial muscles individually through trial and error. Now, computer scientists from the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego have used machine learning to enable the robot to learn expressions on its own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBUtxfUY_w0&eurl=http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/robotsmile/&feature=player_embedded



this, combined with this:

TED Talk with a guy who builds self-aware robots that teach themselves to walk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkHYE9-R0A

makes me think that we're headed for some very very interesting technological times.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: busey on July 12, 2009, 10:26:30 AM
what a fucking homo.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: killing time on July 12, 2009, 11:40:39 AM
just like how the personal computer changed the world we live in, the personal robot will change our world too.

apple's version on the robot; the ibot
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: crest on July 12, 2009, 11:49:41 AM
just like how the personal computer changed the world we live in, the personal robot will change our world too.

apple's version on the robot; the ibot



Quote from: Wired Article
The next step is to get the Einstein robot to start socializing. Once the robot can mimic facial expressions in a social context, the researchers plan to use him in an “automatic tutoring” experiment.

“We’re putting facial expressions onto the robot so that he can engage with a pupil in a non-verbal manner and approximate one-on-one human tutoring as much as possible,” Bartlett said. “Studies have shown that human one-on-one tutoring improves learning by as much as two standard deviations — we want to know how can you try to approximate that with robotic tutoring.”
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: Nancy Chin The Manicurist on July 12, 2009, 11:52:39 AM
Hmmmm.....i dunno about you guys, but i'm not really stoked on this. At this rate, who knows what they'll be capable of in years time.


today, they're teaching themselves how to smile.....

tomorrow, they're gonna stab their creators in the backs and unleash some "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" shit on the world.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: Corby Tender on July 12, 2009, 12:38:48 PM
so it's settled.

I'm buying a gun immediately.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: sage on July 12, 2009, 06:34:56 PM
but can it teach it's self to love????  :-* :-[
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: McCly on July 12, 2009, 07:45:53 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91-nER4ins

play both videos together for the full effect
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: TalentlessSkateboarder on July 12, 2009, 07:49:09 PM
Hmmmm.....i dunno about you guys, but i'm not really stoked on this. At this rate, who knows what they'll be capable of in years time.


today, they're teaching themselves how to smile.....

tomorrow, they're gonna stab their creators in the backs and unleash some "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" shit on the world.
Can you blame them?
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: Albatross on July 12, 2009, 07:54:38 PM
but can it teach it's self to love????  :-* :-[

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdxJHPucC8I
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: skate_bored on July 12, 2009, 09:39:51 PM
this is not a good thing to read when you are high as fuck
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: Prison Wallet on July 12, 2009, 09:48:46 PM
(http://xblock.isafe.org/images/cc/paul_rodriguez.jpg)
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: skate_bored on July 12, 2009, 09:56:46 PM
(http://xblock.isafe.org/images/cc/paul_rodriguez.jpg)

hahaha oh fuck!
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: Beer Keg Peg Leg on July 12, 2009, 11:20:50 PM
If you are afraid of this you are a jackass and should go churn some butter.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: HRPoodersmith on July 12, 2009, 11:59:49 PM
Quote from: Wired Article
The next step is to get the Einstein robot to start socializing.

Who the fuck would want to hang out with this guy?

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/27/article-1156985-03B01AC3000005DC-610_634x314_popup.jpg)
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: Gomez on July 13, 2009, 12:10:07 AM
Hmmmm.....i dunno about you guys, but i'm not really stoked on this. At this rate, who knows what they'll be capable of in years time.


today, they're teaching themselves how to smile.....

tomorrow, they're gonna stab their creators in the backs and unleash some "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" shit on the world.
i was thinking of irobot, but yeah, not stoked on this at all.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: snickers on July 13, 2009, 12:17:53 AM
i've already packed my bags and bought a ticket to the next rocket to mars.
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: frisco on July 13, 2009, 12:20:36 AM
this is the beginning of the end
Title: Re: Robot Teaches Itself to Smile
Post by: angryfacedman on July 13, 2009, 05:01:46 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=channel_page&v=0EaxZ54eIP8