Episode 1 - Robots

Show References and Links

• Alan Turing

  • Imitation Game
  • Turing Test: Differentiate from a human and a robot
  • Paper: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
• Frank Rosenblatt Book: Principles of Neurodynamics

• Boston Dynamics:

  • https://www.bostondynamics.com/
  • Robots that sound like bees (Big Dog)
  • Acquired by Google X in 2013
  • Sold to SoftBank Group in 2019

• Scarce precious metals:

  • tantalum
  • gallium,
  • indium,
  • cobalt
  • platinum

• Virtual Assistants (fake bottage)

  • ParlAI: Facebook’s mechanical turk bialog bot/framework

• Twitter Bots

  • Microsoft’s Tay.ai
  • Should we be nice to our smart speakers?

• Robot Operating System: https://www.ros.org/

  • Robot Kits/Guides

  • DIY Robot Car

    • https://github.com/josephduchesne/RoboCar
    • https://github.com/josephduchesne/RoboCar/wiki/Bill-of-Materials
  • TurtleBot: http://www.robotis.us/turtlebot-3/

Tags

• technology
• robots