Congratulations, Your Robot Just Accepted Your Friend Request

Google Tech Talk
July 16, 2010

ABSTRACT

Presented by Illah Nourbakhsh, CMU Robotics Institute, and Rich LeGrand, Charmed Labs.

Telepresence is a straighforward application of robot technology--a robot becomes your eyes, ears, and possibly arms and legs which allows you to become "telepresent" in a remote location. But telepresence is only one example of how you might want to interact with a robot over the web. We propose using social networks to interact with robots and physical devices so they can become part of your custom information network. We plan on using Google technologies such as Gtalk and Android to form the basis of the network. And we plan on making middle school, high school and college kids the first users. We will bring prototype robot controller to the talk, and the most enthusiastic attendees will receive one if they wish to start hacking right away.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• tech
• talks
• robotics
• telepresence

[sexykatie90]

thumbs up if you liked this Congratulations, Your Robot Just Accepted Your Friend Request

[lagitlax]

what the heck i dont get why people make vids that long its not like anybody actually watches the whole thing

[naebklang]

this was really interresting actually, and im 16 :)

[DoctorRK9]

Hehe, you said diSEMINate.

You mad? :)

[iSwaz]

@Al2006essandro *claps* haha

[Al2006essandro]

@iSwaz what can i say?? you are right. i dont need 2 complain about that part!

[iSwaz]

@Al2006essandro well, id guess you are getting blow jobs then, since you didnt say she wasnt doing it, which means you have nothing to complain about compared to other men.

[Al2006essandro]

I need a freaking Robot that picks up my dirty clothes from the floor and of course it has 2 wash and iron them 2, and put it back into my wardrobe. afterwards he takes my 2 bulldogs out for a walk, even in the winter when its snowing (and he has to pick up the poo of course!) Then he starts washing plates and cleaning the whole apartment and seperate the trash and take it out. And just before i come home, Dinner is serverd!! Now thats a Robot that i want! Because my wife aint doing it!!!!!!!!!!

[NilLeguin86168]

You can get the audio-mp3 of this vid at grabyourmp3s doht cohm.

[davidflotzinger]

IMHO what they are missing is the question: "What kind of thing/device/robot will be so important to me, that I never want to give it away?" or in other words "What kind of thing will make my life easier/funnier/better?".

Do they think, that this "dog brings ball to machine" kind of things will do that?