Check out quadbot - I want one!!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/engimake/quadbot-real-robotics-made-accessible?token=b7d08c2c
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[From Rick Marken (2016.12.15.1040)
RM: I would like to know what kind of sensing/perceptual capabilities these robot kits have. I think the idea of a modular, easy to use kit is wonderful, but going through the specs on this quadbot it looks to me that it is very oriented toward the production of programmed output (there’s even an inverse kinematics routine you can youe to produce the movements).
RM: I imagine the quadbot can do some controlling since its outputs affect whatever sensors it has. But what I would like to see (and what I would buy in a new your minute) is a PCTbot; a robot whose behavior would be built the way that of living organisms is built – to act in a way that controls of various perceptions. So I’d like to see a PCTbot kit that comes with some pre-built perceptual functions that can be controlled – say, visual distance, balance, joint angle, etc. Then the goal would be to assemble the robot so that its outputs controlled those perceptions relative to internally specified (programable) references.
RM: I think Rupert (and Adam Matic as well) may be working towards the creation of something along these lines. The important thing to keep in mind for the PCTbot is that the complexity would be in the design of the perceptual rather than the output functions. It would be great if one of the first things you could make from existing modules of the PCTbot would be a bicycle riding robot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT3vfSQePcs
Best
Rick
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Bruce Abbott bbabbott@frontier.com wrote:
Me too!!
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On Dec 15, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Warren Mansell wmansell@gmail.com wrote:
Check out quadbot - I want one!!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/engimake/quadbot-real-robotics-made-accessible?token=b7d08c2c
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Dr Warren Mansell
Reader in Clinical Psychology
School of Health Sciences
2nd Floor Zochonis Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
Email: warren.mansell@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 8589
Website: http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/staff/131406
Advanced notice of a new transdiagnostic therapy manual, authored by Carey, Mansell & Tai - Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Method of Levels Approach
Available Now
Check www.pctweb.org for further information on Perceptual Control Theory
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Richard S. Marken
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