ASIMO avoids moving obstacles

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have given Honda's humanoid robot, ASIMO, the ability to walk towards a goal position while avoiding stationary and moving obstacles. More info: http://www.plasticpals.com

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[mikemurko]

Question: It seems Asimo can only navigate in "problem solving" scenarios where it knows all the information at any given time. I arrive at this because it appears the top-down view shown in the video is actually what the robot is using to plan its movements. Is this correct? I wonder how far Asimo is from being able to solely use vision detection and cope with limited knowledge of surroundings.

[plasticpals1]

Yep. But like RoboCup soccer, it is a good first step towards solving these kind of problems. Robots are able to build similar maps using just their stereoscopic vision.

[bfyobrian]

dont piss off the robot were giving artificial intelligence. moving that blue circle make's him mad. hell release skynet and coffe makers and blenders will start to wreak havoc on the dipwads who pissed off every robot . like if u ever told ur GPS,

man: "screw u, im goin this direction"

GPS"(bing) recalculating

man:"YEAH U BETTER RECALCULATE!!"

So if u dont want Asimo coming after u at 3 mph, trying to kick a soccerball at u, or spill all that hot coffee on u, dont screw with ASIMO!!!

[Kujamon]

he dodges those rotating objects better than your average person in a heroic deadmines c:

[bensemus x]

probably because he knows this about the obstacles and because u cant determine height from the ceiling mounted camera. When Asimo uses his own sensors he will avoid all of the obstacle

[bensemus x]

love the wow reference xD

[Ghondi1]

Does anyone else notice that he steps OVER the corner of some of the paper? He doesn't walk completely around it. So what if this wasn't paper? What if it was a bookshelf or something? Their isn't any stepping over the corner of one those. I am guessing that it is a slight glitch or why wouldn't he just step over the paper in the middle instead of going 99% around it and then stepping over the corner of it? Either way its an awesome advancement. Almost time to call Will Smith to save us from him

[pahdy93]

I AM AWE-SOMO

[Aerxis]

I guess it would keep incrementing th size of the paths unless they placed a limit to it. Then they can program it to say: "I don't know how to get to the blue dot" if the paths become larger than, let's say, 20 meters.

[Buildingblox17]

I wonder what would happen if you put this is the model of the street in a zombie apocalypse... Would the zombies attack it? LOL! Please comment what you think! What would Asimo do?

[flamesofmordor]

he should flip the guy of everytime he move the blue spot!

[missLPSproductions]

he has an artificial lifeform computer hardware drive in his system for intelligence.

[aliaa eltowayer]

why asimo is an intelligent robot ?

[Cusack187]

When they perfect this asimo will be able to dodge bullets. You have been warned.