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Robot Receptionist Even Gets Testy on
Job
Robot Receptionist Even Gets Testy on
Job
02/18/2004 06:53 PMAP via Newsday Feb 18 2004 11:11PM GMT
University Unveils Robot Receptionist
University Unveils Robot Receptionist
02/19/2004 11:30 AMAP via Los Angeles Times Feb 19 2004 3:39PM GMT
University Unveils Robot Receptionist
(AP)
University Unveils Robot Receptionist
(AP)
02/19/2004 08:10 AMAP - She might not be paid, but Carnegie Mellon University's newest
staff member does all that a typical receptionist should: gives
directions, answers the phone — even gossips about her boss.
Carnegie Mellon unveils storytelling
robot receptionist
Carnegie Mellon unveils storytelling
robot receptionist
02/19/2004 12:58 PMSiliconValley.com Feb 19 2004 5:19PM GMT
In New Hampshire, A Testy Primary Eve
(washingtonpost.com)
In New Hampshire, A Testy Primary Eve
(washingtonpost.com)
01/27/2004 07:05 AMwashingtonpost.com - MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 26 -- On the threshold of
the nation's first primary, the Democratic presidential candidates
raced across the frigid New Hampshire landscape Monday, offering
closing arguments to large and attentive crowds and undermining their
rivals with barbed exchanges on issues from abortion rights to the
Iraq war.
Receptionist
Receptionist
04/16/2004 03:53 PMGreat article by Mike Langberg on an idea he has called
Receptionist.....
Trying to reach me? Meet my Receptionist
By Mike
LangbergMercury
News
I have four telephone numbers, three e-mail addresses, two fax
numbers and user names on three instant messengers.
Many of the people I know personally or professionally have equally
complicated electronic fingerprints.
I lose more and more productive time trying to figure out how to
reach them, as well as managing my own little communications network
so people can reach me.
This is a problem caused by technology, and I believe technology
can provide a solution: a future service I've dreamed up and named
Receptionist.
I got the idea for Receptionist after writing recently about
improvements in electronic mail, instant messaging, video
conferencing, voice-over-the-Internet phone calls and mobile phones.
Receptionist would bring together all forms of electronic identity in
a single gateway, making it easier to reach other people and at the
same time increasing our privacy.
I'm not the first to think of this. A long list of companies in a
field called ``unified messaging'' offers services today that cover
one or two pieces of what I want. Yet as far as I know, none is yet
offering a product as comprehensive as Receptionist.
The center of Receptionist would be a customizable Web page where
others would go to reach you. My page could be www.langberg.com/contactme. The address would never change, even as I shift phone numbers or
e-mail addresses, and I'd never have to give out any contact
information other than my page.
The public version of your page would have only basic information
that you're willing to share with the world at large, perhaps just
your name and e-mail address. A password-protected private page, where
you would control how much information is given to each
account-holder, would go much deeper.
Receptionist would link to a new generation of mobile phones, just
now becoming available, that know their geographic location, allowing
the Receptionist page to display either vague or detailed information
on your whereabouts. Receptionist would also know when you're signed
on to an instant messenger program, so visitors could be told whether
you're sitting at your desk.
Here's how my Receptionist page might look:
``Welcome to the contact page for Mike Langberg, Personal
Technology Columnist of the San Jose Mercury News.''
The next line would vary.
On weekdays, you might see: ``Mike is working, and is available now
for your phone call or message.''
Or you might see, ``Mike is working, but talking on the phone at
the moment'' -- because Receptionist would know when either my wired
phone or cell phone is in use.
Or ``Mike is working today, but is out of the office at the
moment.'' Receptionist would post this message automatically whenever
the location data on my cell phone showed I was more than a few
hundred yards from the longitude and latitude of my desk.
Below this line would be a row of buttons with options for
contacting me:
``Leave a voice message,'' ``Call me on the phone,'' ``Send me an
e-mail,'' ``Send me an instant message,'' ``Start a video
conference.''
The voice message and e-mail options would always be available, but
the others would be grayed out when I'm busy or otherwise
unavailable.
Beneath the contact buttons would be a log-on box, where family,
friends and co-workers could enter their name and a password. This
would take them to a private page where they could see my exact
location, as reported by my cell phone. Family and close friends, but
maybe not my boss, could ring through to my home phone anytime day or
night. Co-workers would get permission to view my electronic calendar,
although they wouldn't see private appointments such as weekend
parties.
There would also be a voice-only version of Receptionist for people
who want to reach me on the phone, without using a computer.
I'd gladly pay $10 to $20 a month for such a service, and I believe
millions of others would do the same.
Receptionist would greatly increase my privacy, because I could
manage how people interact with me.
More important, I could quickly and easily manage how people
interact with me.
Receptionist in its fullest form isn't ready yet for the real
world. We'd need much wider adoption of self-locating cell phones,
more broadband Internet access in homes and more integration between
telephones and the Internet. But all these things will happen within
the next few years.
Return of the Receptionist: Ruby Gets
Businesses to Turn Off Auto Attendant
Return of the Receptionist: Ruby Gets
Businesses to Turn Off Auto Attendant
03/22/2005 03:26 PMNationwide, businesses are eliminating their automated voicemail
system and turning to newly expanded Ruby Receptionists to give their
callers a richer, more personalized call experience. By answering and
routing calls from a remote location, Ruby Receptionists give their
clients the ability to provide the old-fashioned receptionist
experience. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2005]
A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot?
A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot?
12/18/2003 12:58 PMIt took years for researchers to figure out how to make a robot be
able to stand and walk on two legs. In fact, it's so complicated,
that some researchers are giving up on that idea and
using
Segway balancing technology on their robots instead of legs.
However, the folks at Sony seem to have taken the concept of the
upright walking robot one step further: they've figured out
how to make a
robot run. That's right, it actually leaves the ground at
points while jogging along. It apparently needs a bit of a walking
start to get up to speed, and even at running speed, it's more of a
slow jog - where it's feet barely leave the ground. Still, it's a
start, and with some more work, they believe they can really make the
robot run.
You, Robot
You, Robot
12/22/2004 01:24 AMIt's been a while since we mentioned Hans Moravec but a new Scientific
American article turns out to be just what we needed. The article
gives an update on his company, Seegrid Corporation, and the robot
vision system they've been developing. Along the way he talks about
the
growth of raw computing
power from the bacterium-level ENIAC to the modern guppy-level
desktop PC.
I Robot Now
I Robot Now
12/23/2003 07:18 AMI want one of these .. fully automated .. Yeah, right .. NS-5 robot ..
iRobotNow .. assistant
irobotnow.com/index.php
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Wow Robot KHR-1
Wow Robot KHR-1
07/07/2004 08:04 AM<
img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/khr01.jpg"
alt="khr01.jpg image" width="141" height="250" class="borderyes"
border="0" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="15"/>I don't know
everything about this $1,450 'KHR-1' kit from Korean firm Wow Robot,
but just from watching the video I can put together that this little
humanoid bot can kick (soccer-style), shuffle step, pick itself up off
the floor, and assume any number of badass fighting poses. All 17
different joints are powered by a single motor, and there is even
software to pre-script the movements on your computer and play them
back again and again. Probably a little out of most casual robotics
fans' price range, but for those that really like contributing to our
species' ultimate destruction, you know, on the side, the Wow
Robot is a lot of cybernetic doom for not a lot of cash. (Thanks,
Soonkack!)
<
b>Read - Product Page (Korean) [WowRobot]
Related
AgBots: Robots On the Farm [Gizmodo]
"I Robot Now"
"I Robot Now"
12/23/2003 03:23 PMI not Robot
I not Robot
07/21/2004 02:59 PMScott Rosenberg cites the NY Time's nailing of what's so wonderful
about the original I, Robot stories, and then adds his own
contemplations. Unlike Scott, though, I'm going to see the movie. I
think of it as meeting someone named Abe Lincoln. Just a
coincidence....
Run, robot, run
Run, robot, run
12/18/2003 01:05 PMZDNet Dec 18 2003 12:12PM ET
I, Robot
I, Robot
07/17/2004 07:52 AMIRrobotMovie.com [Release Date 2004-07-16] .. that upcoming Will Smith
movie .. new film version of I, Robot .. back to fiction .. website ..
movie .. Robot
irobotmovie.com
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"I, Robot "
"I, Robot "
07/18/2004 09:48 PM"I, Robot"
"I, Robot"
07/16/2004 08:21 AMWill Smith has one hot bod, but is that enough to overcome this
futuristic flick's edifice complex?
Yo, robot
Yo, robot
06/13/2004 08:59 AMRobot Sex
Robot Sex
05/06/2004 05:17 PMSimson Garfinkel has written a new Technology
Review article on the subject of Robot Sex - not sex as in robot
procreation but as in robot gender. Is your robot a male or female? It
turns out Honda thinks Asimo
is a male and consistently refers to it as "he". The Roomba, on the
other hand,
is female according to the author. The article also mentions the
Neiman Marcus his & her
robots which included a male and female robot. There's a related
Slashdot discussion.
What Sex is Your Robot?
What Sex is Your Robot?
05/06/2004 10:05 AMRobot Hormones
Robot Hormones
06/01/2004 03:39 PMIn a new Dallas
Morning News article, columnist Tom
Siegfried compares the reconfigurable robots of the CONRO project
with the reconfiguration of human responses caused by hormones. The
snake-like CONRO robots can change their shape as needed to perform
different
tasks. The robots are composed of interlocking modules built on R/C
servos and controlled by a 68HC12 board. Each
module has
yaw and pitch servos as well as one active connector and several
passive
connectors. The robot can reassemble its modules as needed to change
shapes. CONRO is yet another project of the USC Polymorphic Robotics
Lab, the same
folks mentioned in our earlier story about Zero-G robotics.
Robot roll out
Robot roll out
04/29/2004 10:25 AMFeb 7th is Love Your Robot Day!
Feb 7th is Love Your Robot Day!
02/10/2004 03:00 AMI was looking in the Dallas Morning
News (paper edition) this morning and they had a
February Calendar and guess what was on February 7th? Yes, February
7th is "Love your Robot Day." Perhaps that's why so many robot
competitions happen on
February 7th? :-) What started Feb 7th being Love your robot day? I
haven't a clue but here's an ecard site to help you share...
CyberKisses
nandBot IRC Robot
nandBot IRC Robot
04/24/2004 12:52 PMnandBot 0.51 released!
Octopus Robot
Octopus Robot
04/22/2004 10:44 AMBoingboing reader
LVX23 says:
Check out this cool "autonomous wheeled climbing robot"
from the French Autonomous Systems Lab. They call it the "octopus".
Now if only they could hack a humvee body on top...
LinkRobot Forensics
Robot Forensics
04/21/2004 09:05 PMSeveral readers alerted us to Roland
Piquepaille's latest weblog entry
about a robot equipped with a device that allows it to take
fingerprints
from suspicious packages that would normally have to be destroyed by
bomb disposal teams. Photos and a detailed description of the new
device, known as the "Robot
Accessory for Fuming Fingerprint Evidence" or RAFFE, can be found in
a paper
(PDF format) presented in the March 2004 of the Journal of Forensic
Sciences.
There is also a related Slashdot
article.
Robot Origami
Robot Origami
05/25/2004 11:37 AM 
New Scientist
reports on the graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University we've
linked to previously who built a robot that can make simple origami
constructions. The work is aimed at developing robotic systems that
can manipulate various materials encountered in daily life. From
researcher
Devin
Balkcom's site:
"Why origami? Origami is a fresh challenge for the
field of robotic manipulation. Paper is flexible; robots are
best at manipulating rigid things. Even if we model origami as
an articulated rigid body (by building our origami out of really stiff
cardboard with hinges along creases), it still has a complicated
mechanical structure." Link
Web robot generator
Web robot generator
02/11/2004 04:33 PMScientific article about "Sight" is in press.
I, Robot (2004)
I, Robot (2004)
07/19/2004 09:29 AMRobot librarian
Robot librarian
07/21/2004 11:20 AMResearchers at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are designing a robot
librarian of sorts. The three-wheeled bot listens for verbal book
requests, heads to the approximate location of the title on a shelf,
and uses digital cameras to read the spines. The toughest challenge is
engineering a grasper with "fingernails" to pull out the book,
Professor Angel del Pobil told the BBC:
"It is mimicking the way we manipulate our hands. We have
constant feedback from tactile sensors, so it is moving very slowly.
In the first experiments, the books really got damaged because it was
pressing too hard. Now it touches gently."
LinkGuido van Robot 0.9.1
Guido van Robot 0.9.1
02/16/2004 02:51 PMGvR is an interactive, introductory programming language.
I, Robot Boycott
I, Robot Boycott
07/16/2004 01:34 AMBy the 1940s Isaac Asimov grew
tired of reading endless pulp stories about masses of evil,
marauding robots
attempting to destroy their creators. His answer was a series of
stories in which Susan Calvin, a robopsychologist, solves mysteries
caused by conflicts in the Laws of
Robotics, a set of ethical rules governing robot behaviour. Asimov's
first collection of robot stories was titled I,
Robot. Hollywood is trying to pull a fast one by
licensing the title of Asimov's book for a completely unrelated
movie, originally called Hardwired,
about masses of evil, marauding robots attempting to destroy their
creators. A hasty rewrite of the script added a few references
to the Laws of Robotics and renamed some characters to match Asimov's
story. There's a Susan Calvin in the film but
she's just along to watch Will Smith shoot things. A petition
failed to persuade 20th Century Fox to change the name of the film and
now growing numbers
of outraged
Science Fiction fans request that people boycott
the opening week of I,
Robot. I plan on joining them, in an
effort to put a dent the highly valued opening week revenue. If the
marketing tactic makes money this time, Fox will likely use the
recently
licensed
titles to Asimov's Foundation novels to market more unrelated films.
Robot Revolution!
Robot Revolution!
07/27/2004 01:18 PM
Here's a gallery of Joe
Alterio's agitprop for the Robo-Equality Party. Digital prints on
archival paper are $40 to $100 depending on the size.
Link (Thanks, Lin
dsay!)
Robot Survivor
Robot Survivor
06/02/2004 05:28 AMHmm, A Restart
Guido van Robot 0.9.9
Guido van Robot 0.9.9
06/04/2004 11:04 AMGvR is an interactive, introductory programming language.
Experimenting AI Lab Robot
Experimenting AI Lab Robot
01/16/2004 11:01 AMReuters says that British researchers have created a
Robot Scientist that Conducts and Interprets Lab Tests The
article says that the robot can formulate theories and do research and
works as well
as a grad student. (er, um, Did the robot verify that claim with a
control subject / grad student?) They did say that
there were no differences found between the lab results from the robot
and from those gathered by grad students.
But at least they do say the tasks they have given it were simple ones
and that it's unlikely to
put anyone out of a job. So basically, this robot harbinger of the
future can take the grunt work out of doing lab experiments, allowing
robots to yet again free the world from drudgery (that professors
usually dump on grad students).
One researcher says, " If you opened it up I think humans would have
the advantage. We tend to be more flexible "
If it really can figure out things for itself, the scientists may have
invented themselves out of a job!
Robot Dog, One of, Field Use
Robot Dog, One of, Field Use
01/07/2004 01:56 PMThe US Army TACOM group
is spending $2.25 million on research projects aimed at building robot
dogs that can carry a soldier's field equipment and keep up with the
soldier over any terrain. Right now, each man has to carry up to 100
pounds of ammunition, food, and equipment. The long term challenge is
making a four legged robot that can move as fast and quietly as a man
over any
terrain. The immediate challenge is making a four legged robot big
enough for the job that doesn't fall over and doesn't need an internal
combustion engine for power. For more, see Noah Shachtman's
interesting
article
on the program in Wired.
Robot Libre
Robot Libre
06/29/2004 03:30 PMProject Started
Robot Protest
Robot Protest
05/21/2004 12:57 AMnoonelikesyou.net/TFT-robots
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Female Mine Exploration Robot
Female Mine Exploration Robot
12/19/2004 03:41 PMRoland
Piquepaille writes,
"The grandmother of an engineering student at
the University of Arizona has an old mine on her property. What could
be
inside? Would it be safe to explore it? She -- the student, not the
grandmother -- decided it was better to send a robot
inside and she teamed with another robotic enthusiast to build a
radio-controlled rover to explore the mysteries of the old mine. The
18-inch-long and 7-inch-high robot can communicate with them via a 900
MHz radio modem and send them videos from inside the mine.
Theoretically,
the robot has a seven-mile range line-of-sight, but the team is not so
sure. So the robot is also tied with a rope to pull it out of the mine
if necessary, especially if it falls into a big hole. And did I
mention
this robot is a 'she'? They decided the machine was female "because
the
rover is independent, sometimes unpredictable and able to do the
seemingly impossible" and they
called her 'Green Meanie.'" You'll find more technical details and
photos in Roland
Piquepaille's blog. Jessica Dooley and Keith Brock, who built
the robot, are both members of the UA Aerial
Robotics Club.
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09/18/2004 09:06 AMNovember Robot Competition FAQ Posted
November Robot Competition FAQ Posted
11/02/2003 05:21 PMThe November edition of the Robot
Competition FAQ is out. Lots of robot events are happening this
month all over the world including Japan, Columbia, Canada, and quite
a
few in the United States.
February Robot Competition FAQ Posted
February Robot Competition FAQ Posted
02/10/2004 02:45 PMThe February edition of the Robot
Competition FAQ is out with the usual assortment of updates and
additions. This month's list reached 90 competitions for the first
time
ever. Among the updates is the 2004 Micro Air Vehicle
competition, which finally announced their contest date of April 9 -
11. The MAV contest always promises some interesting new developments
in
tiny, flying robots. This year they've added a category for
ornithopers.
Robot Receptionist Even Gets Testy on Job (AP)
