A Boston Dynamics Robot Dog

June 19, 2024March 23, 2024Digital Citizen 1 Comment

I ran my 35 and final marathon in Lyon in October, 2023. While at the fitness fair waiting to get my race package, one thing I definitely did not expect to see was a robot dog by Boston Dynamics. I had heard lots about the company, and seen videos of their robots that amazed me. However, seeing this robot dog was still an experience on its own, even though the dog didn’t exactly do much. AI and the robots are coming. Are you ready?

I am, cause I made friends with it and other AI and such, in hopes they’ll kill me last as their friends lol. But maybe they’ll kill me first for my silliness. 😉

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First Try with Anki Cozmo Robot’s SDK

July 20, 2017Digital Citizen Leave a comment

Last night, I had my first look into the Anki Cozmo robot’s SDK that uses Python. It was a little nerdy to install and set up, but the videos were well put together. Now, the real fun begins!

My strategy for learning these programs is to alter them in some way, to be creative but also to get some hands on coding done, and maybe to do some independent things rather than just following instructions without having to think much. It’s one thing to repeat words and phrases to learn a language. It’s another to make your own, or at least tweak, the words and phrases you got taught. I learn much better the latter way.

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If I Taught my Robots to Draw, Will Its Art Be More Valuable than Mine?

July 16, 2017Digital Citizen Leave a comment

Theoretical question worth pondering before testing later, cause you know it’ll only be time before robots can produce art as a common activity like it is for humans now. They can produce art already, but not as common as you or I could just go draw, paint and such.

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How to Design Visually Appealing AI Robots to People

April 29, 2017Digital Citizen Leave a comment

There are enough artificial intelligence (AI) robots being designed these days that within a few years, you’ll probably not be far from one at many times in your lives, especially if you live in a city. Some of these robots elicit a positive reaction from people. Others, not so much. Some of this is due to what they do, but a lot of it is due to what they look like. Yes, we’re humans. We judge a lot of things, or form a lot of our judgement of things, including people, unfortunately, by their looks. We also seem to feel threatened in getting replaced by robots if they were too much like us. So what can one do to create a more visually appealing robot? Here are some thoughts.

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