US Gov's DARPA says teach a robot to drive, win a million bucks!

[NFS4]

http://autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=carnews&loc_code=index&content_code=08584167

 

[Syringer]

What if I teach Al Gore how to drive?

 

[Heisenberg]

I would love to work for DARPA. They get to do all kinds of cool stuff.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I would love to work for DARPA. They get to do all kinds of cool stuff.

Yeah, where do I sign up? 😀

 

[The Stigenator]

how about a car to drive itself?

its a robot by itself.. so far its just a small 2feet device..with solar panels and an engine.

 

[everman]

Well I suppose it could use GPS navigation. The only difficult part that it must avoid collisions in the off-road environment. Something that can do this successfully is worth a whole lot more than a million bucks...

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: everman
Well I suppose it could use GPS navigation. The only difficult part that it must avoid collisions in the off-road environment. Something that can do this successfully is worth a whole lot more than a million bucks...

Maybe they could just reprogram Honda's Asimo to drive 😛

 

[Occifer]

Excuse me, did you say "teach a woman to drive"? 😛

 

[PliotronX]

It would be a breeze compared to teaching a robot to avoid getting hit by an idiot driver.

 

This would require AI with the ability to learn at an exponential rate.

 

[MichaelD]

Wow, what a neat idea! Imagine the technological advances that will come b/c somebody will actually DO this! 😎

 

[toant103]

my favorite.

"But, they?ve got all these geeks who can do all the computer stuff and we?ve got all these grease balls who are already doing the race trucks. Now all we have to do is get them together.?

 

[tom3]

One of the biggest challenges in building an AI that can drive on real streets, as opposed to a controlled obstacle course, is that of computer vision. Seeing and perceiving images, and correctly recognizing patterns and derive some meaning from them, just like a human would, is incredibly difficult for a robot to do.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: tom3
One of the biggest challenges in building an AI that can drive on real streets, as opposed to a controlled obstacle course, is that of computer vision. Seeing and perceiving images, and correctly recognizing patterns and derive some meaning from them, just like a human would, is incredibly difficult for a robot to do.

See this link I posted above:

http://asimo.honda.com/

 

[everman]

I'm just guessing, but the Asimo only needs to process enough visual data that would require it to move at maximum speed, which isn't very fast at all. But in order to travel at say 40 - 60 mph you would require a lot more power...which I have no idea if it is an issue or not but it seems like it could be.

I'd rather see DARPA working on something like "Metal Gear" b/c that's just much cooler on an exponential scale 😀

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: tom3
One of the biggest challenges in building an AI that can drive on real streets, as opposed to a controlled obstacle course, is that of computer vision. Seeing and perceiving images, and correctly recognizing patterns and derive some meaning from them, just like a human would, is incredibly difficult for a robot to do.

Not if you ignore the following variables:
Trees
Telephone poles
Buildings
People

🙂

 

[Nitemare]

that's fine and dandy, how much to teach a woman how to drive?

<---goes back in his cave.

 

[tom3]

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Originally posted by: tom3
One of the biggest challenges in building an AI that can drive on real streets, as opposed to a controlled obstacle course, is that of computer vision. Seeing and perceiving images, and correctly recognizing patterns and derive some meaning from them, just like a human would, is incredibly difficult for a robot to do.
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See this link I posted above:

http://asimo.honda.com/

NFS4, can you please direct me to the page on the asimo site that talks about computer vision? I looked around for a bit but could not find much information in that regard. I'm very interested to find out what the most advanced humanoid bos is capable of.

Thanks!

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: tom3

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Originally posted by: tom3
One of the biggest challenges in building an AI that can drive on real streets, as opposed to a controlled obstacle course, is that of computer vision. Seeing and perceiving images, and correctly recognizing patterns and derive some meaning from them, just like a human would, is incredibly difficult for a robot to do.
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See this link I posted above:

http://asimo.honda.com/

NFS4, can you please direct me to the page on the asimo site that talks about computer vision? I looked around for a bit but could not find much information in that regard. I'm very interested to find out what the most advanced humanoid bos is capable of.

Thanks!

Not the same thing, but:

Computer vision makes rapid progress