Blog assignment 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk

Above link is about Nao robot.This video shows us that the new generation of robot which have sensory motor control ( they feel people walk by) and they also able to speak language and communicate to people and other robots It was very fascinating to see that robots can do the same things as humans and how technology has have taken over in the past few years. It shows the robot doing various tasks such as walking , speaking and interacting with other robots.i would say that this video is optimistic because of the way the introduced the nao by not giving too much information but allowing the consumer to thing that something more can be done with it.The creators show off the all of the impressive abilities of the Nao with on-screen specs. The Nao is shown demonstrating impressive abilities like being able to interact with its environment, identify objects, people, and even other Nao robots distinctively. It can even pick it self back up if it were to fall. Making it a very advanced robot..

According to Michael Bandele (2010), artificial intelligence is machine that can be programmed in a way, so it can be implemented somewhere to handle certain mission. This means that if a machine can perform same tasks as humans and can do the same stuff is considered artificially intelligent. going back to our Nao Robots we can now say that even though they can perform moves like humans, they can not do it as good as humans.The Nao robot does simulate emotion on a one dimensional side of it. You can program the robot to be happy when around certain people and be sad when something is being done to it, for example someone throwing it. But these are just a machine saying words, not real emotion. But the robot has not perfected these motions fully yet.

The video about this product only talks about the final product and what and how it operates/perform. But in written description it tells us the software behind this product and more specs. Therefore, the written description is more helpful when trying to learn the specs of the nao robot.








John P. Sullins, III ( 2005. p110-113) Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved from

http://go.galegroup.com



You Tube ( 2008, october 10). Nao robot. Retrieved April 26, 2013 from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk