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	Howstuffworks "How Robots Work"
		For example, roboticists can easily give their creations the ability to follow a target, listen to voice commands and maneuver around obstacles.
		Roboticists are nowhere near achieving this level of artificial intelligence, but they have had made a lot of progress with more limited AI.
		In Japan, roboticists have taught a robot to dance by demonstrating the moves themselves.
	www.howstuffworks.com /robot.htm/printable (3821 words)

	Roboticist in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
		Roboticists often work for university, industry, and government research labs, but may also work for startup companies and other entrepreneurial firms.
		Both roboticists and systems engineers build complex systems with many interacting subsystems, but roboticists often use strategies that are very different from those used in traditional systems engineering.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Roboticist (610 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roboticist Mark Tilden, one of the most vivid characters in the book and the creator of skittering, buglike robots, describes the creations of most of his colleagues as "puppets," which have no autonomy or real intelligence, but are instead simply pre-programmed or remote-controlled toys.
		The humanoid robot is a pricey form of egotism; and unfortunately, too many roboticists profiled in "Robo Sapiens" (especially the Japanese researchers, oddly enough) seem fixated on replicating themselves rather than doing something ultimately useful with their research grants.
		The roboticists in pursuit of a humanoid robot justify their research by talking about the projects' utility; but it's questionable whether these God games are really worth the time and energy spent on them.
	dir.salon.com /tech/books/2000/09/14/robo_sapiens (2324 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Robots Work"
		Roboticists build them from the ground up for a fairly specific purpose.
		For example, roboticists can easily give their creations the ability to follow a target, listen to voice commands and maneuver around obstacles.
		Roboticists put all these pieces together with a souped-up erector set -- a collection of aluminum body pieces and sturdy wheels.
	electronics.howstuffworks.com /robot7.htm (322 words)

	Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio, Robosapiens: Evolution of a New Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roboticists are currently trying to develop robots in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and purposes.
		The accompaning text, mostly interviews with the roboticists, detailed the limitations of the technology as well as the future potential of their work.
		Battlebots, now seen duking it out on the Comedy Channel, are the modern equivalent of the Roman Gladiator sent out to do battle to the death for the glory of its masters and the enjoyment of the crowd.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /JAHC/JAHCiv2/P-REVIEWS/menzel.html (658 words)

	Learn more about Robot in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In his I, Robot series, Isaac Asimov created the Three Laws Of Robotics (later four) in a literary attempt to control the competition of robots with humans.
		Although the idea of a specialized field of robotics was basically founded on these laws, today roboticists seemingly make no effort to implement them in their work.
		Some critics question the likely robot ethics that will emerge if their early evolution is guided only by work and by violent competitions.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/ro/robot.html (2034 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Robots Work"
		Roboticists can combine these elements in an infinite number of ways to create robots of unlimited complexity.
		Roboticists are nowhere near achieving this level of artificial intelligence, but they have had made a lot of progress with more limited AI.
		In Japan, roboticists have taught a robot to dance by demonstrating the moves themselves.
	electronics.howstuffworks.com /robot.htm/printable (3836 words)

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		As part of a DARPA/NSF Study on Human-Robot Interaction, an interdisciplinary workshop was conceived, which would allow roboticists to interact with psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, communication experts and human-computer interaction specialists to discuss common interests in the field of Human-Robot Interaction, and to establish a dialogue across the disciplines for future collaborations.
		The purpose of this study was to provide a forum where roboticists could interact with psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, communication experts and human-computer interaction specialists to explore the social interaction "space" between humans and robots.
		The purpose of the study was to initiate contact and discussion between traditional roboticists, cognitive scientists, and human factors experts.
	www.csc.calpoly.edu /~erogers/HRI/HRI-report-final.html (7524 words)

	Robot - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Therefore roboticists extend the definition by adding a criterion that robots must be entities that perform more than one action.
		Note: It is interesting that robotics was basically founded on these laws and today roboticists make no effort to implement them in their work.
		Robots are being used today to do the tasks that are either too dirty, dangerous, or dull for humans.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /ro/Robotics.html (1148 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| Why are real-life robots so lame?
		Roboticists admit they are not making robots that are as smart as people may have been led to believe they would be by the year 2003.
		One of the toughest, yet most basic issues roboticists are still grappling with is how to get a robot to move around an environment, learn what it has seen and react accordingly.
		One way of doing it is to programme a map of an area into the robot, so it knows where to go and what to expect.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1008933,00.html (567 words)

	Obsessive Geniuses Strive to Create Almost Human Robots
		Behind every Hasbro Butterscotch Robotic Pony and every NASA rover exploring Mars are teams of roboticists who've worked obsessively to bring their creations to life.
		The roboticists didn't necessarily find it uncomfortable, but they did have a difficult time figuring out what their relationship to these creatures should be.
		The person who said that was Manuela Veloso, and she is now allowing her robots to teach themselves things that roboticists used to teach and write programs for.
	www.wired.com /science/discoveries/news/2007/03/almosthuman_0329 (1104 words)

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		Instead, roboticists seek new methods by which to evolve autonomous agents that can function effectively in ecologically valid situations.
		Roboticists have proposed a variety of real-world tasks, any of which if accomplished would indicate significant progress in the field.
		For instance, a group of roboticists at Brandeis University recently made the following pessimistic assessment: "The field of Robotics today faces a practical problem: most problems in the physical world are too difficult for the current state of the art.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/ecopsyc/isep/ICPA-conf/ICPAws-shawmace1.doc (4020 words)

	Biological Inspiration
		In recent years there has been considerable dissent among roboticists from the idea that research toward human-like deliberative reasoning will solve the biggest problems faced by mobile robots.
		Since their nervous systems are simpler, it becomes possible to determine the roles of individual neurons in behavior such as evasion responses, fixed action patterns, and perception [17].
		While biologists have been developing models and simulations of animal behavior, roboticists have been searching for the means to distribute the control tasks faced by autonomous machines, and make their performance more reliable.
	www.mindspring.com /~sggoodri/thesis/biology.htm (2618 words)

	Salon Directory
		Their affair was nurtured by a robot and watched by millions -- but its ratings were shaky.
		Roboticists want to field a team of automatons in the 2050 World Cup that can win it all.
		One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood.
	dir.salon.com /topics/robots/index.html (311 words)

	Where's My Robotic Maid?
		At the 2005 RoboBusiness conference in Cambridge, Mass., at a panel on personal robots, the possibility was also raised that roboticists were out of touch with the needs of the general consumer.
		A PandG representative sitting in the panel's audience raised his hand and noted that his company could identify at least 20 problems that consumers would like to see addressed around the home.
		Roboticists gripe about Roomba's less than sophisticated technology, but as Joe Engelman, the retired roboticist who is generally credited as the father of the field, puts it, "You can't argue about their success."
	www.infowars.com /articles/science/robots_wheres_my_robot_maid.htm (564 words)

	Backstories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Ewan McCauley was a Scottish roboticist whose work really began to take form during a time that was the 1960’s of the 20XX era.
		What most roboticists do when a prototype has outlived its usefulness and the final robot created, is deactivate the prototype, dismantle it, and sell and/or melt the parts.
		There, he removed the virus, reprogrammed her, and slightly rebuilt her, improving her weapons and giving her a more feminine look (and a paint job; on Joyce’s first look at the other blue-and-aqua prototypes through this one’s eyes, he had decided the old man was colorblind).
	www.angelfire.com /comics/lintlizard/backstories.html (2719 words)

	CMU expert: Robots may not be able to feel emotions, but some can show them
		Love may be unfamiliar territory for roboticists, but it is the theme of Steven Spielberg's movie, "A.I.," which opens in theaters today.
		People are driving their own cars, collecting their own laundry and doing many of the humdrum chores that roboticists have targeted for automation.
		Even today, though, there are roboticists who are taking approaches similar to the moviemaker's vision.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20010629aiside0629p4.asp (1599 words)

	Armageddon Games Forums - Sentient or not? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In a space about the size of a robots head you could fit 4 hardrives(if you used HDs) and with the new maxamum capacity of 200gigs each, that is 800gigs of space.
		Of course roboticists in general do not plan on using HDs, but rather a new invention that is like ram but non-volitile but just as fast as normal ram.
		With this new invention(i forgot the name they gave it) it is possible at present to fit a terrabyte of data in the same space(but it is EXTREMELY expensive at the moment).
	www.armageddongames.net /showthread.php?t=60780 (2482 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 4/17/2003, Michael Dickinson, Rosalyn Sayaman
		Studying a fly may eventually lead to a model that will provide insight into the behavior and robustness of complex systems in general, and, for roboticists, may help them in the design of flying robots that mimic nature.
		Although these experiments were performed on tiny fruit flies, says Dickinson, the results impact nearly all insects, because the importance of inertia over friction increases with the size of the animal.
		The results also provide a basis for future research on the neural and mechanical basis of insect flight, and, for roboticists, may offer insights for the design of biomimetic flying devices.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12371.html (706 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		The text may not be as overwhelming as the photos, but it's still informative.
		On one level, this is great, because it gives us a comparatively unfiltered version of their work and research.
		To this day, many respected roboticists admit they're working to build something similar.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/2000/10/18/51.asp (664 words)

	If Tiny Robots Ruled the Earth
		Just as the fields of artificial intelligence and artificial life have moved from rules-based and top-down models of constructing digital life, roboticists are starting from the ground up (literally), looking to biology and the animal kingdom for design inspiration.
		By tweaking these nervous nets, powered by solar cells, B.E.A.M. roboticists are able to coax surprisingly sophisticated behaviors from their creations.
		Eventually, the B.E.A.M. roboticists hope to see all sorts of tiny robotic creatures lurking in the shadows of our lives, performing menial and repetitive tasks with hive-like efficiency.
	www.stim.com /Stim-x/0796July/Sparky/robot.html (917 words)

	ABC Radio National: The Buzz 21 August 2004 - Fly, Robot
		There’s a big difference between the humanoid models found in fiction and the approach many roboticists are actually taking.
		That’s because the most promising model for robots isn’t people, it’s insects, and there’s a big conference on insect robotics in Brisbane next week.
		Srini Srinivasan says the reason insects are so interesting to roboticists is that they do a lot with a little.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/buzz/stories/s1181513.htm (1178 words)

	Roger Clarke's Asimov's Laws of Robotics
		A political opponent, seeking to expose the robot, discovers that it is impossible to prove it is a robot solely on the basis of its behavior, because the Laws of Robotics force any robot to perform in essentially the same manner as a good human being7.
		In a later novel, a roboticist says, "If a robot is human enough, he would be accepted as a human.
		A human character in The Naked Sun is so incensed by these shortcomings that he accuses roboticists of perpetrating a fraud on mankind by omitting key words from the first law.
	www.anu.edu.au /people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Asimov.html (13168 words)

	Idaho National Laboratory - Adaptive Robotics - Humanoid Robotics
		Most roboticists forsook the goal of human-like cognition entirely and focused on creating functional, high-utility agents.
		Nonetheless, as roboticists continued, mostly from a mechanical point of view, to develop new robotic tools for a variety of purposes, they gained a new respect for the human body a platform that remains unmatched for versatility and adaptability.
		Accepting what they believed to be one of the greatest engineering challenges of all time, a few intrepid mechanical and electrical engineers began to build the world’s first humanoid robots.
	www.inl.gov /adaptiverobotics/humanoidrobotics/earlyendeavors.shtml (662 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading Edge Engineering From the 1998 NAE Symposium on ...
		The definition is surprisingly controversial, even among roboticists.
		Roboticists such as Whitney (1986) suggest that there is an inherent design tradeoff between flexibility and efficiency: a humanoid household robot would not be nearly as efficient at the standard home dishwashing machine.
		Neither is it obvious that anthropomorphism is necessary: machines with flapping wings were far less successful at flying than fixed-wing aircraft.
	www.nap.edu /books/030906287X/html/87.html (485 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - Sony advisor claims robotics will drive IC development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Although a robust robotics industry would unquestionably be beneficial to the IC industry, robotics experts disagree on the importance of computing power to the development of robotics.
		Some roboticists, such as Hans Moravec, argue that increasing computer power will directly drive robotics development.
		Watching Michael Jordon serves to remind all roboticists that the mechanics of a robot is a trully daunting task.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2004Mar/wbc20040317024326.htm (2737 words)

	Technology Review: Robots of the Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Bookies' favorite is likely to be Sebastian Thrun and his team of roboticists from Stanford University, CA, who won the last challenge, in 2005.
		Safety will likely be high on the agenda for roboticists in 2007.
		In April, roboticists from around the world will meet in Rome to discuss such safety issues and begin the process of finding solutions before it's too late.
	www.technologyreview.com /BizTech/17931 (591 words)

	Talent Search and Testing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Four categories encourage participation by roboticists of all ages and abilities: junior (grades 8 and below), high school, senior (anyone beyond high school), and expert.
		If you want to learn about new robotics books as they are published, subscribe to the e-newsletter offered by www.robotbooks.com, a site that offers a range of titles for roboticists of all ability levels.
		Appropriate for grades 6-12, this curriculum introduces aspiring roboticists and their teachers to sensors, motors, gearing, computer processors, and computer programming.
	www.cty.jhu.edu /ts/times_article2.html (893 words)

	Embodied Cognition [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		In the early 1980's, MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks became dissatisfied with the stored-description approach as well as with the general direction of artificial intelligence research.
		In summary, Brooks' research in artificial life, as well as the research of many other roboticists (see also Mataric 1992, Agre and Chapman 1997, Tilden 1999, Mataric, Clancey 1997), helps to clarify the first theoretical assumption of embodied cognition: the primacy of goal-directed action occurring in real time.
		One reason that Brooks’ research is an excellent example of this theoretical assumption is his emphasis on developing robots that employ quick, cost-effective solutions to "everyday" problems encountered in an environment.
	www.iep.utm.edu /e/embodcog.htm (6572 words)

	TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet
		But a small group of roboticists at the University of Essex are designing a system to wirelessly network a swarm of tiny, Bluetooth-enabled unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) into a cluster of flying computers acting as one processor more powerful than the sum of its bots.
		Someday, flocks of shoebox-sized UAVs called UltraSwarms could act as a distributed eye in the sky, monitoring highway traffic, aiding in crowd control or even entertainment at massive sports arenas or, of course, embarking on military surveillance missions.
		The tiny gumstix are equipped with Bluetooth, the wireless technology of choice for many roboticists.
	www.thefeaturearchives.com /101675.html (757 words)

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