[From Rupert Young (2014.07.31 21.20)]
Thanks all, for your replies. I do hope we are able to make a breakthrough and kick off the PCT revolution.
Some specific responses:
Frans, yes I remember meeting you in 1999, I think it was. I have recently bought your book, and it is currently on my ever increasing pile of essential material to read. Any advice from your son-in-law would be most welcome.
Barb, thanks for the picture, very timely.
Kent, the PCT-based robotics architecture is generic so could potentially be applied to any robotics domain, though practically I would initially be looking at areas of low-level perception such as domestic robots (Dyson <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26084765>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26084765\), insect-size unmanned aerial vehicles ( <http://www.maplebird.com/>http://www.maplebird.com/\) or autonomous toys (<http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/toys/robots/robotics>http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/toys/robots/robotics\).
David, thanks for the image, I'll keep it in mind for a future t-shirt.
Richard R, I don't have any contact with MIT at the moment. But am going to a conference in the UK soon on Autonomous Robotic Systems (<21st Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference - TAROS 2020 - The University of Nottingham) and hope to make contact with both University groups and commercial companies.
Regards,
Rupert Young
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Rupert! What a great honor, your dedication to PCT! Dad (and Mom) would certainly feel most humbled and moved by this declaration of your inspiration and desire to devote yourself fully to this work. I could picture him now at his dining room table, laptop humming, reading your email with a big grin on his face and declaring, "Well, I'll be darned..."
I have to share that seeing your email this morning gave me a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" moment. Allie made her trek across the country with the many boxes of Dad's papers we are turning over to Northwestern University this weekend. Attached is a photo she sent of a sign she made along the way, to post in the window of her van. PCT or Bust, indeed!
I'm also laughing because Dad's boss at Northwestern University was, of course, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, UFO expert among many other things, and consultant for, you guessed it, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He was given a little cameo appearance in the movie, when the mother ship opens and the aliens begin to disembark...
Best,
*barb
Dear Rupert,
May I express my immense admiration for you doing this. Congratulations!! I hope this will be a success. We met north of Berlin at a PCT meeting way back.
I have forwarded your email to my son in law Marco Plas. He is an economist and an ICT’er and knows about PCT. He lives in North London (Finchley) and I have suggested he might give you some business advice.
Warm regards,
Frans
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[Rupert Young (2014.07.30 13.00)]
I am pleased to say that PR (Perceptual Robots), and the PCT approach, got an award at the weekend, <http://www.innovation-council.org.uk/2014-awards/>http://www.innovation-council.org.uk/2014-awards/\.
I am passionate about PCT and over the years I have been trying to figure out how I could work in the field full-time and earn a living, and raise its profile. I think one effective and compelling way to do the latter is to build useful, real-world applications which show that the approach works and is a powerful approach to modelling dynamic living systems in unpredictable environments. So, my solution to the former (and the latter) is to start an enterprise to build control/robotic systems based upon PCT, for the commercial world. And recently I have decided to concentrate my efforts full-time in order to develop the enterprise and make it a going concern. Basically, PCT or bust!
As fellow supporters of PCT any help you could offer would be most appreciated in this endeavour to take PCT into the mainstream and into the public consciousness.
Here are a few ways you could help:
* Follow on twitter, <https://twitter.com/perceptualrobot>https://twitter.com/perceptualrobot\. And retweet tweets from PR to your followers. Twitter is very useful as a news feed for specific topics.
* Follow on LinkedIn, <https://www.linkedin.com/company/perceptual-robots>https://www.linkedin.com/company/perceptual-robots\. Also connect to me on LinkedIn.
* Subscribe to the YouTube channel, <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGA1-akFXJYf90qIOH1BJuw>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGA1-akFXJYf90qIOH1BJuw
* Keep your eye out for any robotics challenges which might be suitable for PR to tackle.
* Keep your eye out for any sources of funding to which PR could apply, for robotics projects.
* Help fund PR projects. If I can find a suitable robotics project (walking bipedal robot?) I intend to set up a crowdfunding campaign to which supporters could subscribe and fund.
* I am more of a technical person than a business person, so any suggestions for business development would be useful.
* Generally inform to those who may be interested of PR's existence.
* Buy the T-shirt! <http://perceptualrobots.spreadshirt.co.uk/>http://perceptualrobots.spreadshirt.co.uk/ (if you require a variation of the default let me know and I can add).
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On 30/07/2014 14:22, <mailto:bara0361@gmail.com>bara0361@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Frans Plooij <<mailto:fplooij@kiddygroup.com>fplooij@kiddygroup.com> wrote:
Op 30 jul. 2014, om 14:09 heeft Rupert Young <<mailto:rupert@moonsit.co.uk>rupert@moonsit.co.uk> het volgende geschreven:
If you don't have an account on the social media channels above please consider signing up, they do have their uses, if only in this context. Twitter, particularly would be useful for publicising and discussing the core concepts of PCT.
Regards,
Dr Rupert Young
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<http://www.perceptualrobots.com/>>>> www.perceptualrobots.com
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