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	Mark Tilden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark W. Tilden is perhaps most well known for his invention of BEAM robotics.
		He is a controversial robotics physicist, who produces complex robotic movements from simple logic circuits, often all on the single logic chip and without a microprocessor.
		Tilden was the technical consultant for the robot scenes of the 2001 movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Tilden (275 words)

	BEAM robotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The underlying mechanism was invented by Mark W. Tilden where the circuit (or a neural network[referred to as a "Nv net"] of the artificial neurons [called Nv neurons]) is used to simulate biological neuron behaviors.
		Tilden's circuit is often compared to an shift register, but with several important features making it a useful circuit in a mobile robot.
		One of the main hinderances to widespread application is the perceived random nature of the 'nervous network', which requires new techniques to be learned by the builder to successfully diagnose and manipulate the characteristics of the circuitry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BEAM_robotics (1669 words)

	Paradigm Shifting Without A Clutch
		Tilden had his next robot - the size and elegance of a pencil cup - constructed of a couple of transistors and solar cells borrowed from a discarded pocket calculator within two weeks.
		Tilden, born in Shroud, England, the gifted son of a housewife and a salesman, then reared and educated in Ontario, Canada, found he could create these insect-like robots based on what he calls Nervous Nets (Nv) and BEAM principles (for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics) with remarkable survival skill.
		Tilden says hundreds of microsatellites in orbit could relay simple streams of data to a communications mothership, which could integrate the data and pass it to ground stations.
	home.earthlink.net /~douglaspage/id25.html (2486 words)

	ROBOSAPIENS: A DOCU SCI-FI FEATURE FILM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tilden is a kind of robo-evangelist who seems to completely charm anyone that comes in contact with him.
		Tilden is currently launching his new Biomorphically inspired humanoid robot called the Robosapien on a global scale, an event he compares in substance to the launch of the Wright Brothers first airplane.
		Mark Tilden is considered an "artist" by Microsoft which sponsors his "sculptures" in six US cities to a very curious American public.
	www.robosapiens.org /Robosapiens.html (639 words)

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		According to Tilden, conventional robot designs have significant drawbacks, the most serious of which is that the machines require a digital control processor.
		Tilden has an unusual way of evaluating particular designs: He places the robots in what he calls his Robot Jurassic Park and makes them compete for survival, which in their case means obtaining sunlight.
		Tilden has encouraged others to throw their robots into the ring.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/january97/departments/inoutput/input_out.html (710 words)

	Newhouse C1
		B.I.O.-Bugs inventor Mark Tilden insists his latest creation is nothing less than the vanguard of "artificial life," a coming infestation of cheap, single-minded robots -- patterned after pests -- that will perform household chores and then scuttle into the woodwork.
		Tilden models his creations after simple insects, which focus their attention on surviving from moment to moment.
		Tilden, meanwhile, is working on the next generation of meaner, faster bugs.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/story1c122001.html (528 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Technology:The B.I.O.-Bugs are coming! 12/24/01
		Tilden has created an army of lifelike robotic bugs that use transistors, rather than computers, to control their actions.
		Tilden, 40, is a consultant with both Hasbro and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		Tilden has been creating, tinkering and playing with the buglike robots for the past 10 years.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/122401/tec_124-3457.shtml (539 words)

	Mark Tilden
		Mark Tilden is perhaps most well known for his invention of BEAM robotics.
		He is a controversial robotics physicist, who produced complex robotic movements from a single logic chip.
		Mark Tilden also made some robots for the movie Tomb Raider.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Mark_Tilden.html (104 words)

	Mark Tilden -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mark W. Tilden is perhaps most well known for his invention of (Click link for more info and facts about BEAM robotics) BEAM robotics.
		He is a controversial (A mechanism that can move automatically) robotics physicist, who produces complex robotic movements from simple logic circuits, often all on the single logic chip and without a microprocessor.
		Tilden was the technical consultant for the robot scenes of the movie (Click link for more info and facts about Tomb Raider) Tomb Raider.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Mark_Tilden.htm (174 words)

	SPACE.com -- Robotic Pair Planned as First Lunar Colonists
		Tilden wouldnt comment on what hell be paid for the robots, only saying that "the average cost for such lunarbots in mass numbers would be less than $100 each.
		Tilden may even provide a robot for a viewer-controlled "thrill cam," ASR said.
		Tilden said his immediate windfall will come from sales on Earth of his robots as toys and adult tools in the wake of the Lunar Retriever 1 hoopla.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/missions/moon_doggies_000918.html (1560 words)

	Machine Intelligence, Part II: From Bumper Cars to Electronic Minds
		Tilden began making robots when he was three years old, although it wasn't until he got to a university in Canada that he had the money and skills to build a more capable model.
		Tilden argues that the vast majority of biological life on Earth has achieved only these three levels and still manages to survive.
		Tilden's machines and other machines may never pass the Turing Test or the standard of understanding set by the Chinese Room.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~cfs/472_html/Intro/NYT_Intro/History/MachineIntelligence2.html (1757 words)

	ROBOTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As Tilden keeps waving his soldering iron and turning out new species, behind the scenes a mathematician, a physicist and their supercomputer in the Los Alamos Theoretical Division are analyzing data and developing theories at the edge of our current knowledge.
		As for his robots, Tilden explains, while their neurons are nonlinear elements, their sensors and motors are strictly linear devices, and must be so, in order to keep the robots in a stable state.
		Tilden often uses the image of a horse and rider, comparing the intelligence of his robots to that of the horse, which knows how to get there when the rider gives it a goal.
	www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca /PEOPLE/petal/robots.htm (6813 words)

	Wired News: Robot Dog 'Bugs' Inventor
		Mark Tilden designed the toys based on his 10 years of work as a roboticist and physicist with the federal lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
		Tilden is not the only one eschewing digital technology as the key to making artificially intelligent robots.
		Tilden said this direct link to the world is what gives his bug toys their lifelike reaction to each other, people and the world, and makes them so much fun.
	www.wired.com /news/gizmos/0,1452,47879,00.html (908 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mark Tilden - featured in National Geographic and countless other magazines, will be giving a public talk on his robots as both functioning creatures as well as pieces of art.
		Mark will address what went wrong with the robot-worker concept, drawing from his own experience (and disasters) in 30 years of robot building and research.
		Born in England, Mark W. Tilden was educated in Systems Engineering at the University of Waterloo (Canada) and did a Masters in Media electronics.
	robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu /~winthrop/MarkTilden/MarkTilden.txt (399 words)

	Solarbotics.net Digital Gallery :: The Wow-Wee Robosapien by Mark Tilden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mark Tilden gave Solarbotics a private viewing of the Robosapien.
		Mark Tilden explains the geometry in the Robosapien.
		Mark Tilden shows off the considerable abilities of the remote when programming the Robosapien.
	www.solarbotics.net /gallery/Wowwee-Robosapien?page=2 (134 words)

	The Future of Your Discipline - Robotics
		In fact, says Dr. Mark A. Tilden, a robotics research scientist at Los Alamos National Research Labs, robotic science as a whole is actually moving backward.
		Tilden calls this the “evolutionary cul-de-sac.” This description fits species that “find a form and then stay that way for hundreds of millions of years without deviation,” he explains.
		Tilden says that it is impossible to compare robots to any stage of the evolution of life because “There are few robots in existence that meet the survival criteria.” So if humans will only build robots that devolve into disposable hunks of molded plastic, available at 7-11 for $9.95, who will push robotic science forward?
	www.graduatingengineer.com /futuredisc/robotics.html (1527 words)

	Robosapien, join the Robosapien Nation - the RobosapieNation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the beginning Robosapien or RS as he is commonly known was just a figment of the imagination of one Mark Tilden.
		Designed by former NASA scientist Mark Tilden, Robosapien is ready to go right out of the box, (just install his batteries) and he’ll come to life at a touch of the infrared remote control.
		Mark Tilden, the designer of Robosapien, is a robotics physicist who has worked for NASA, DARPA and JPL through Los Alamos National Laboratory.
	www.robosapienation.com (334 words)

	Tilden and Wow Wee Toys Develop BEAM-based Humanoid Robot :: Robotics Trends :: Robots and Robotics Technology News, ...
		Tilden is widely recognized as the father of BEAM robotics, and predictably the RoboSapien product is based on BEAM technology and principles.
		This simple circuitry is coupled with sensor technology, and the machinery of the BEAM robots body itself, to produce elegant biomechanical robots that bear an uncanny resemblance to creatures found in the wild (especially insects).
		According to Tilden and Woo Wee, the RoboSapien, which is remote controlled and programmable, is usable right out of the box (it requires no complex set up).
	www.roboticstrends.com /displayarticle136.html (618 words)

	Are we ready for robots?
		Mark Tilden, a transplanted Montrealer designing robots for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says he expects Star Wars: the Phantom Menace to lead to renewed interest in robots.
		In spite of all this interest — and the enormous amount of money that accompanies it — Tilden sounds very pessimistic about the chances of ever succeeding at building robotic replacements for humans, especially considering some of his previous experience demonstrating robotic contraptions to army brass.
		Tilden is even skeptical when it comes to humanoid robots, like C-3P0.
	exn.ca /starwars/droids.cfm (1116 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| The burping robot who gave Mars a miss
		Tilden worked non-stop for 21 days to build the first Robosapien prototype from bits of plastic and wire scavenged from his local hardware store.
		Tilden, son of a railway company salesman, excelled at maths and science at school, graduated with a masters degree in engineering, then worked for America's Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nasa, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the US army and navy.
		Tilden, working on the next generation of Robosapiens in Hong Kong, says: 'Robosapien is exactly one-fifth of me: he's based on my dimensions, makes the sound that is Thai food and Pepsi, and he dances like a really sad, awkward, white, science guy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /christmas2004/story/0,15386,1366939,00.html (869 words)

	Robotz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Comprised of capacitors, transistors, resistors, and other mechanical and electronic parts, these machines were the first of Tilden's now-trademarked BEAM robots (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics).
		Tilden created more machines: a robot that captured flies and pushed them onto the floor, where tiny "dustbunny cowboys" shoveled the insects away; electric wallpaper; security blinkers; walking remote controls.
		At the height of Tilden's experimenting, more than 50 machines of 12 distinct "species" lived in his one-bedroom apartment.
	www.idgrid.org /id/robots.htm (446 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mark Tilden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Biomorphic robotics is a subdicipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals.
		The Hasbro/Wowwee B.I.O. Bugs are a series of battery-powered autonomous/remote-controlled robot bugs based heavily on the designs of Mark Tilden.
		See also: Robot A humanoid robot playing the trumpet In practical usage, a robot is an autonomous or semi-autonomous device which performs its tasks either by direct human control, partial control with human supervision, or completely autonomously.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mark-Tilden (500 words)

	Robot Dreams: Robosapien, Roboraptor, Robopet, Micromouse, Mindstorms, and other cool robot adventures: Robosapiens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mark Tilden and the other designers did an excellent job – no question – but trying to jam 62 functions into a low cost remote control in a simple, easy to understand and use way is a tremendous challenge.
		Tilden talks about his robotics design philosophy, features that they had to drop/postpone to get to market, hacking Robosapiens, his favorite robots, what the near term future might hold for robots in general, and even drops some hints about what's coming next - as soon as the New York Toy Fair, February 5th.
		Mark Tilden is, in fact, mentioned as the inventor of Robosapien in the Dime article.
	isobe.typepad.com /robotics/robosapiens (8417 words)

	Your toys will be assimilated - Holiday Gift Guide - MSNBC.com
		Robotics physicist Mark Tilden surveys a platoon of the Robosapien toys he designed for Hong Kong-based Wow Wee.
		Tilden, a specialist in biomorphic robotics, has worked for DARPA and NASA through Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		Perhaps it's the hackability: Tilden made the robot so that it could be easily taken apart and modified by robo-geeks, and there's a rising tide of Web sites and online forums devoted to Robosapien hacking.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6533560 (1384 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| features Toy robot takes geek world by storm
		Boasting the scientific knowledge of former NASA robotics engineer Tilden — who part-built a probe sent to gather climate data from Mars — it claims to be the first mass-produced robot.
		Tilden designed the toy as a vehicle for a new breakthrough in robotics he'd discovered.
		Tilden is delighted with the wacky response to his invention and hopes fans will take their obsession further.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /features/389989.htm (877 words)

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