ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot

Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world.

ECCE, developed within the EU's 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features.

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[Apjooz]

What is a brain, if not an advanced processor? Humans have free will of some sort, but only within the boundaries of what they are "programmed" for.

[amando96]

"can easily grasp, and handle objects" so lets give him a shisha!

[pearlnaturalvision]

A good start...

[Nemo34511]

... Am I the only one thinking that they kinda look like the Engi race from FTL:Faster Than Light?

[Aleksandrs Ambrosovs]

Да всё очень хорошо! Пусть сделают хоть что-то нормальное, что может помочь человеку. Давно уже пора это сделать.

[cvfx2012]

Yeah right...... good luck.

[spookycorp]

Something is telling me that there must be some advanced illuminati scientist involved in all of this. One eye? People have a pair. If we're talking about 'human-oid' form here, with two hands, torso, neck, head... Why just one "cam-eye" (whatever it might be)? It is cheaper to build one eye instead of two? Profit matters to this level? By the way, Wall-E is the Boss.

[Bigpapapowell]

Has everyone forgotten Skynet???!

This looks to be one of the steps towards mans own downfall!

Just jestin!

Good work docs!

[Awbrfg55]

THIS IS AWESOME! SCIENCE IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!

[mathbrmath]

A GETH!!!

[Alberto Pau]

Italian artists Uochi Toki wrote a song titled "Ecce Robot"

Translate the lysics in english and read.

[wyrdfishes]

I'm torn. Half of me is saying "AWESOME!" and half of me is saying "NOPE."