Technical description of “NAO Next Gen: the new robot of
Aldebaran Robotics – YouTube”. The video technical capabilities of the
Aldevaran Robotic Nao next gen are as follow face detection and recognition,
convert text to speech in 8 languages, adaptive walking. One of the most unique
feature of this robot is that it uses speech recognition to complete a task or
objective. The robot can communicate via the internet or Wi-Fi. When needed it
can do a whole body movement at once. It have sound localization which helps it
to get to a specific location when it is called, it achieved this function by 4
microphone install on the robot. Finally the technical specification of the
robot is that is has an onboard Intel atom 1.6 GHz cpu, 35 degrees of freedom
and 23” tall. This video is more optimistic as aldebaran is trying to get the
viewer to visualize the possibility of nao robots. The creator of this video is
the person who is trying to sell the robot and that would be Aldebaran. It did not
affect the trustworthiness or accuracy of this ad as the creator would not lie
about the specification and capabilities of the nao robot.
Artificial
intelligence
“The subfield of computer science concerned
with understanding the nature of intelligence and constructing computer systems
capable of intelligent action. It embodies the dual motives of furthering basic
scientific understanding and making computers more sophisticated in the service
of humanity. Artificial intelligence is primarily concerned with symbolic
representations of knowledge and heuristic methods of reasoning that is, using
common assumptions and rules of thumb”( In McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology , pp. 176-177).
Reference
Artificial Intelligence. (2005). In McGraw-Hill
Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (5th ed., pp. 176-177). New
York: McGraw-Hill Professional. Retrieved from
http://go.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3475800482&v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=GVRL.Science&sw=w
According to my
understanding artificial intelligence is a test program trying to reconstruct
human touch, emotions and thinking process. According to McGraw-Hill Concise
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology the Nao robot is artificial intelligence
as we have to pre define the field in which it would operate, it also can
complete simple task that it was program to complete. The Nao robot is also self-aware
meaning that it does not depend solely on it program to complete it task as if
it encounters a problem it tries to solve it. The Nao robot does not think like
a human as it depends on a programmer to start a new task. Nao robot does not
simulate human emotions as the don’t have enough of sensor or enough program to
mimic human emotions. It is wise for machine to be artificially intelligent as
the would one day find us obsolete.
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