AIBO : lets play

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AIBO lets play!

• Sidsel Jensen
• (purps_at_diku.dk)
• The talk can be found at
• www.hamster.dk/purple/robot/aibo.ppt

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Whats your favorite robot?

• R2D2 C3PO
• Kubricks HAL2000
• Replicants from Blade Runner
• Terminator
• Robocop
• Teddy from AI
• See more at http//www.androidworld.com/

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The term robot ?

• The word 'robot' was coined by the Czech
  playwright Karel Capek (pronounced "chop'ek")
  from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. The
  use of the word Robot was introduced into his
  play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) which
  opened in Prague in January 1921.

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Laws of Robotics

• Law Zero A robot may not injure humanity, or,
  through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
  
• Law One A robot may not injure a human being,
  or, through inaction, allow a human being to come
  to harm, unless this would violate a higher order
  law.
• Law Two A robot must obey orders given it by
  human beings, except where such orders would
  conflict with a higher order law.
• Law Three A robot must protect its own existence
  as long as such protection does not conflict with
  a higher order law.
• - Asimov

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AI Categories

• Expert and Knowledge Systems
• Natural Language Processings
• Sensory Capabilities and Digital Processing
• Robotics
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Data Mining
• Machine Learning in General
• See http//www.generation5.org for more info

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Timeline

• 1992 Apertos / Aperios (SONYs Real-Time OS
  born)
• ca. 1993 SONYs Digital Creatures Laboratory
  start working on commercial entertainment
  robot
• Jun 1998 Announcement of entertainment robot
  architecture OPEN-R
• May 1999 1.generation AIBO (18 DOF) ERS-110
• Nov 1999 relaunch of 1.generation AIBO
  ERS-111
• Oct 2000 2. generation AIBO (20 DOF)
  ERS-210
• Nov 2000 Small Biped Entertainment Robot (24
  DOF) SDR-3X
• Sep 2001 3. generation AIBO (15 DOF)
  ERS-311 / ERS-312 LATTE MACARON
• Nov 2001 4. Generation AIBO (16 DOF)
  ERS-220
• Mar 2002 Prototype of Biped Robot (28 DOF)
  SDR-4X

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AIBO family
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AIBO Explorer - ERS-320
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SONY Dream Robot - SDR
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SDR-4X Prototype
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What is AIBO ?

• AIBO stands for "Artificial Intelligence RObot
• - it also means friend in Japanese
• AIBO's (generation 1) exterior is designed by the
  Japanese artist Sorayama Hagime (also known from
  Playboy magazine)
• AIBO was the first of its kind
• at least commercially

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AIBO before design !
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The style of Sorayama Hagime
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What is AIBO ? (continued)

• AIBO is designed to interact with humans.
• After the Gold Rush of Internet and cyberspace,
  people will eagerly seek real objects to play
  with and touch. Robot Entertainment provides
  tangible physical agents and an undoubted sense
  of reality.
• Robot Entertainment requires that motions and
  behaviors of a robot must be complex and
  unexpected so that people keep an interest in
  watching or taking care. (1997) Masahiro Fujita
  Koji Kageyama

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AIBOs hardware

• 64-bit RISC processor
• 16Mb main memory 8Mb program memory
• Aperios operating system
• Open-R architecture with learning and growth
  capabilities
• 250 programmed movements
• 180,000-pixel colour CCD camera
• stereo microphone (both ears)
• heat sensor
• infra-red range finder spatial acceleration
  finder
• touch sensors (head and each leg)
• dimensions 156x266x274mm (not including tail),
  weight 1.6kg,
• powered by two Lithium-ion batteries, giving a
  maximum waking time of three hours

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What does AIBO ?

• AIBO goes through 5 development levels
• - newborn
• - baby
• - child 2 variants lazy or rumble
• - young 3 variants lazy, bad or good
• - adult 4 variants lazy/rumble cat or
  lazy/rumble dog
• These levels are affected by interaction with
  AIBO and quality time.

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AIBOs sense of color

• AIBO can detect 5 different color intervals, and
  is able to respond in 3 different ways.
• The 5 colors are
• ORANGE AIBO hate this color
• PINK color of the ball will try to kick pink
  stuff
• YELLOW act the same way as pink
• BLUE AIBOs favorite color
• GREEN isnt used - neutral
• - propably because the football field of RoboCup
  is green!
• The 3 reactions are "BALL", "FAV" og "UNFAV".

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AIBOs sense of color (cont.)
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AIBOs feelings

• Instincts
• Exercise
• Affection
• Appetite
• Curiosity

• Emotions
• Joy (Happiness)
• Sadness
• Anger
• Surprise
• Disgust / (Discontent)
• Fear

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Raising AIBO

• AIBOs character is affected by positive and
  negative feedback
• it works through a reinforcement theory
• You can pat AIBO or
• You can punish AIBO

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About RoboCup

• The Robot World Cup Initiative
• Initiative started in 1994 by Hiroaki Kitano
  (from SONY Corp) and others.
• Vision By the year 2050, to develop a team of
  fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win
  against the human world soccer champions.
• 2002 is the first year with a humanoid league!

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The future ?

• Introduction video of SDR-3X at Robodex...
• SDR-3X has speech syntheses and can walk 15
  meters per second! It has a built-in real-time
  balance system.