Evolving Humanoids

Evolving Humanoids
Author: Malachy Eaton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2008
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9783902613196

Evolving Humanoids: Using Artificial Evolution as an Aid in the Design of Humanoid Robots.

Evolving Humanoids: Using Artificial Evolution as an Aid in the Design of Humanoid Robots

Evolving Humanoids: Using Artificial Evolution as an Aid in the Design of Humanoid Robots
Author: Malachy Eaton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 9783902613196

Following an initial introduction to the twin topics of evolutionary robotics and humanoid robotics, we discussed their recent convergence in the new field of evolutionary humanoid robotics. After presenting a survey of recent work in this field by other researchers, we introduced our own work in the area of evolving bipedal locomotion in a simulated highDOF humanoid. After a brief discussion on the important topic of benchmarking future mobile robot performances we introduced our current hardware platform, and the implementation of locomotion, evolved in simulation using the Webots simulator, on the Bioloid platform for an 18-DOF humanoid robot. Advantages of our approach include its adaptability and the ability to generate life-like behaviours without the provision of detailed domain knowledge. While certain questions remain to be addressed, including the potential scalability of this approach to the generation of highly complex behaviours, the field of evolutionary humanoid robotics should prove a useful and powerful tool for future designers of humanoid robots.

Evolutionary Humanoid Robotics

Evolutionary Humanoid Robotics
Author: Malachy Eaton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-03-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783662445983

This book examines how two distinct strands of research on autonomous robots, evolutionary robotics and humanoid robot research, are converging. The book will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students working in the areas of evolutionary robotics and bio-inspired computing.

The Future of Humanoid Robots

The Future of Humanoid Robots
Author: Riadh Zaier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9533079517

This book provides state of the art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the field of humanoid robotics and its applications. It is expected that humanoids will change the way we interact with machines, and will have the ability to blend perfectly into an environment already designed for humans. The book contains chapters that aim to discover the future abilities of humanoid robots by presenting a variety of integrated research in various scientific and engineering fields, such as locomotion, perception, adaptive behavior, human-robot interaction, neuroscience and machine learning. The book is designed to be accessible and practical, with an emphasis on useful information to those working in the fields of robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computational methods and other fields of science directly or indirectly related to the development and usage of future humanoid robots. The editor of the book has extensive R

The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics

The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics
Author: Patricia A. Vargas
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262026767

An authoritative overview of current research in this exciting interdisciplinary field.

Designing Robots, Designing Humans

Designing Robots, Designing Humans
Author: Cathrine Hasse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Educational psychology
ISBN: 9780415786560

Designing Robots, Designing Humans brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another, offering a new and innovative opportunity for understanding our future with robots.

Beyond Human

Beyond Human
Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007-09-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1429936207

Concepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences -- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods. After a decade or two, they will be as unremarkable as the computer screen is now in offices, airports or restaurants. Cyborgs will be less obvious. These additions to the human body are interior now, as rebuilt joints, elbows and hearts. Soon we will cross the line between repair and augmentation, probably first in sports medicine, then spreading to everyone who wants to make a body perform better, last longer, than it ordinarily could. Controversy will arise, but it will not stop the desire to live longer and be stronger than we are. Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre's Beyond Human treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same general phenomenon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Evolutionary Robotics. From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life

Evolutionary Robotics. From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life
Author: Takashi Gomi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2001-10-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540427376

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics, ER 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001. The seven revised full papers by the invited speakers Rodney A. Brooks, Dario Floreano, Robert J. Full, Inman Harvey, Owen Holland, Francesco Mondada, and Jordan B. Pollack were carefully selected and revised for presentation in the book. Among the topics addressed are imitation of life and machine consciousness, autonomous vision-based robots, evolved robots, living machines, artificial evolution, bioinspired artificial life locomotion, and mobile robotic systems engineering.

Humanoid Robots

Humanoid Robots
Author: Ben Choi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9537619443

Humanoid robots are developed to use the infrastructures designed for humans, to ease the interactions with humans, and to help the integrations into human societies. The developments of humanoid robots proceed from building individual robots to establishing societies of robots working alongside with humans. This book addresses the problems of constructing a humanoid body and mind from generating walk patterns and balance maintenance to encoding and specifying humanoid motions and the control of eye and head movements for focusing attention on moving objects. It provides methods for learning motor skills and for language acquisition and describes how to generate facial movements for expressing various emotions and provides methods for decision making and planning. This book discusses the leading researches and challenges in building humanoid robots in order to prepare for the near future when human societies will be advanced by using humanoid robots.

Darwin's Devices

Darwin's Devices
Author: John Long
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465021417

A director of biorobotics research at Vassar College demonstrates how applying principles of natural selection to robot design is revolutionizing ideas in both technology and evolution, identifying the potential capabilities of a practice that combines experimental science, engineering and natural process. 14,000 first printing.