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The Braitenberg vehicles
The following blog is a transcript of Brian Douglas' (Control Systems Lectures) YouTube video (2015) on the Braitenberg vehicles. He says the following:
Hyper Evolution: Rise of the robots (Part 3)
I want to know how far the robotics technology has evolved, how close robots are to making sense of the world around them and if we can trust their decisions. This is quite literally a life-and-death issue for all of us, because it's starting to play out on roads, in...
Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots (Part 2)
There are already 9 million robots on our planet. They are developing so rapidly, it's like the arrival of a new species. What has taken humans millennia, robots have achieved in just decades. Now they are tackling their greatest challenge, trying to think like us. I...
Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots (Part 1.2)
In the West, it's a different story. Many people are afraid of robots and I want to know where this fear comes from. This is Eric, a scary, mechanical man born in 1928. He is the very first British robot. He is on disply in the Science Museum in London and I think he...
Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots (Part 1.1)
This blog is a transcription of the BBC documentary "Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots" and is part of my research on robotics in preparation for the Open University TM129 module 'Technologies in Practice'.'In labs across the world we are creating advance robots....
What is sound?
We live in an analogue world with an infinite range of sounds, colours, touches, tastes and smells that we can perceive through our senses, but what exactly is sound in its physical form and how can it be represented digitally?