A Robot Teaches Itself How to Walk
A Robot Teaches Itself How to Walk
Cornell University professor Hod Lipson demonstrates how a robot can teach itself to walk without any knowledge of its form and function. “Within a relatively small number of these babbling actions, it will figure out what it looks like,” Lipson says. He adds that eventually “it can figure out how to move.”
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Join an audience at swissnex San Francisco as scientists from Switzerland and the US discuss their research on humanoid robots, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Hear how some robots self-reflect, self-improve, and adapt to new circumstances, and whether it’s possible for robots of the future to possess the same cognitive characteristics as humans.
Cornell University’s Hod Lipson is seeking to understand if machines can learn analytical laws automatically. For centuries, scientists have attempted to identify and document analytical laws underlying physical phenomena in nature. Despite the prevalence of computing power, the process of finding natural laws and their corresponding equations has resisted automation. Lipson has developed machines that take in information about their environment and discover natural laws all on their own, even learning to walk.
Rolf Pfeifer directs the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich. Together with his scientific assistant Pascal Kaufmann, Pfeifer presents current AI research and a humanoid robot in the Ecce family referred to as Cronos. Instead of copying only the outward form of a human, Cronos mimics the inner structures as well—bones, joints, muscles, and tendons—and thus has more human-like actions and interactions in the world.
A Robot Teaches Itself How to Walk
A Robot Teaches Itself How to Walk
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this is kinda creepy looking
Wow. it moves like a star fish
Hasabis does not know how to create proper Artifical general intelligence. Hop Lipson in the right direction
A weapon to surpass metal gear
If robots where sentient, and where treated like normal people, I don't see why they would kill people. Wouldn't they just be normal people, and maybe if they ask, "Why do I exist" then they would just end up with an essential crisis?
If its not pre-programmed, why does it want to move?
Learning AI is so lazy
this is a worm not ai. artificial body not intelligence
You won't be laughing when it teaches itself how to operate a machine gun.
How does the AI know when it should abandon the current neuron network
and go for a new one? If there is no reward and punishment system, how
can AI know it is doing things right or wrong?
Besides, is it not much easier to have an AI watch different real human
walk
cycles first and then has it figure things out on itself while only
giving
it one target of not losing its balance?
Can we in theory then simply put such an AI, which has been running in
simulated environment for long enough, into a humanoid robot and just
leave it in a huge room with different terrains and when we come back
see it parkouring in the room?
Freaky
People are laughing at it because it couldn't walk very well but let's not forget how long it takes for a human to learn how to walk.
Very cool indeed. What hardware are they using?
HOLY SH–
The terminator origins
Any1 here from pewdiepie
The robot has no clue if he is a tree
Its all cool until the AI figures a way to survive that its not in our best interest. Because we design it doesnt mean it will respect our values. If an AI becomes smarter than us what do we do? Or what will it do? We let it do its "thing"? If so what is that? Who says it will not see us as threat? If we fail to teach it our values or if it grows so much that it doesnt care anymore about our interests what will it do? We make robots to help us in life but if they grow smarter than us will they still keep the same goal we made it have? What if "improving our lives" is not the best solution anymore?
Maybe this is all considering our "human" view of things but we actually cant understand AI. So who says otherwise.
We're all dead
this makes me scared
Am I the only that’s scared
I don’t think it’s teaching itself if u program it with steps on how to determine what it is, if u get what I mean
Impresive , iris really amacing
The design (leg positioning) doesn't seem the best for walking. If you'd design it like a cheetah for example, the robot will probably learn to walk with the grace of a cheetah (at its own pace, since its motors are slow, but it will make the best of it 🙂 ).
Can I put this technology on a quadcopter learning to fly?
Creepy. Even looks like an organic life. Seems like life in ai is similar to a real world.
Robots are scary it’s soon gonna learn how to nuke the earth
Fuck naw I'm moving to the north pole , skynet can suck a chubby
What if it learns too much
I'm tempted to implement something like this but i'm still trying to figure out how to map joint mechanics in a 3D simulation to a real servo or stepper motor.
This is awesome for 2012, but really, it's not that spectacular. Think about the number of assumptions this model makes about the robot. When something's too good to be true, it probably is.
if its a tree?
I thought the guy had a microphone on his head, but that was just a mole/bump on his face. xD
YOU ARE GOING TO WALK LIKE A SPIDER!
No, dad, I want to crawl on my belly!
I HAVE NO SON.
Wait until he learn how to kill human..
how does it know its walking?
Is the robot equipped with AI.
Now tell him to not let the center touch the ground while walking