Third Day With LEGO Mindstorm

In today's lecture we were introduced to Department of Electrical Engineering at DTU. Then different types of robots were presented. We heard about servicve robots, industrial robots, entertainment robots and some special robots which can be used on mars or under water...
We got to know 3 current projects beyond robotics EU 6FP:

• iSwarm
• Neurobotics (http://www.neurobotics.info/)
• Cogniron (http://www.cogniron.org/)

In the second part we saw a really interesting vodeo of Sebastian Thruns presentation: "Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge". You can find the video following this link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8594517128412883394

We also got a short introduction to the DTU RoboCup and the Robo Cup soccer.

In this video you will see our new friend AIBO:

Our task for today is to think about which robots we would like to build and which robots we would like to own.

Anil: In future robots will be more agile so it will be easier to pass the human motions to robots. When possible I want to create a robot that can follow and copy my moves so it will be fun to dance with it or fight with it when so bored. Also people can share their database of the moves they taught to robots. I find the robot really impressive that can kill the cells producing cancer. The nano robots have much uses like that.

Kitty: For me the Big Dog is a really impressiv robot ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI). His stability and the way he's able to walk is really interesting. But what I prefer to own is some kind of cleaning robot which is also able to tidy up a room before cleaning it. I would find it very interesting to built a robot which needs a quite good visual sensor and uses pattern recognicion software, because I'm rather interested in computer vision.

Paloma: in my case I would like to be able to build robots that could substitute parts of human body, even intern organs that could be controlled just with the brain if necessary; so people could live a normal life. The robot I would like to own is a hole domotic house so I could control everything even from the outside with just one small screen.

Tamas: For me are these robots the most interresting (robots with artifical intelligent):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYptK21vAgQ&feature=related
I think humanoid robots are entertaining (and also AIBO) but I would better build industrial robots.

Well here you can see Anil and Tamas programming our TriBot how to follow a black line: