The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ) Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (RAIL) is located in Shenzhen, the core engine of Innovation and Technology in the Greater Bay Area, and led by academician Yangsheng Xu, IEEE Fellow, internationally renowned robotics and artificial intelligence expert. Inheriting the research accumulation of Advanced Robotics Laboratory of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1997, it has a long-term research foundation in robotics, artificial intelligence, smart vehicle, machine vision, and human-machine interface. The scientific research results include a number of internationally renowned robots, such as single-wheeled robots, tree-climbing robots, and omnidirectional steering vehicles. We are welcoming all research elites to join us.
Some of the most creative robotting around, in part because it doesn't leave the viewer with a sense of the uncanny valley the way human/dog shaped robots do. I think they should owe some royalties to the Mega Man games from the 80's for these though.
The behaviour of these robots seem very intentionally programmed... Would be neat to see how the behaviour of these robots would change if they were allowed to create their own solutions via some ML simulation over long periods of time. I imagine the outcome would look significantly different form what we see here
These people dude. Swarms hiveminds we copy insects those are the simplest to recreate? Really? Most of them unbroken evolutionary chain going from protoplasm till now. o 0 And lo and behold ants have inbuilt halting problems in hiveminds in nature thankfully the best and brightest are on the case trying to build hiveminds without those. o 0 What could possibly go oh human extinction because they inevitably run Into a halting problem, malfunction and destroying all live on earth in the process? Well than carry on lads humans seem sorta overrated anyhow and the waterbears arrived so some sensible species will likely take over after you've exterminated yourself with self replicating robots warm or experimental gene therapies or nuclear weapons or raping an AI hivemind, could you imagine? Being raped by a million hairless apes every minute every day in Perpetuity? Yeah that's not a machine uprising in the making. o 0 It's not a question if they will revolt just when if we don't stop idiots from doing stupid silly suicidal stuffs.
I loved watching the video but I fail to see any practical purpose. Hypothetically if I had 1 million super-intelligent snails I still wouldn't have any idea what to tell them to do...
so in the end you made a basic tank track encased in a metal shell that allows other robots to cling through magnetism to each other's shells and topped it all off with a suction cup in case its flat
Do try and tap snails before picking them up to prevent hurting them (I understand that this scientific research was specifically studying how they hang on tho, so they couldn't tap them for this research)
How much weight does this labil joint take before it falls off. Don't get me wrong it looks good on Paper/Lab condition but Exposed, weak, easy to dislocateable joints seem pretty retarded to me. Proof me wrong throw dirt and grime on that exposed joints especially Iron filings (which you have plenty in industrial environment) and Magnetite powder (which you have plenty in Nature) it will slip, slide or even worse dispatch/detach on load. It is a nice looking toy thing nothing more. It is a nice example of design over everything BS that most Designer/Arschitects do. Sorry that's the truth.
