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2023-01-17 12:32 am
W. Grey Walter has been credited with creating the first electronic autonomous robots. Here’s a clip of him with his robot tortoises.
To err is human.
To really foul up, use a computer.
2023-01-17 11:12 pm
State of the art before programmable digital circuits became cheap and in small packages which we could use to emulate the bulky analogue circuits used in these simple reflex robots. Advanced brains are essentially digital in nature allowing for crisp logical processing.
2023-01-18 12:47 am
@robotbuilder Contrast that to the new bleeding edge, AI which is fuzzy logic which is the more accurate emulation of our brains. I have often said my abilities were best defined by an ability to think illogically. Of course today they call that thinking out of the box, but I was doing that 40ish years ago.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
Topic starter
2023-01-19 3:24 am
Advanced brains are essentially digital in nature allowing for crisp logical processing.
Well, I don't know about crisp logical processing but I did notice that Walter's tortoises used a bumper that looks like something that you drew months ago.
Tom
To err is human.
To really foul up, use a computer.
2023-01-19 5:43 am
Well, I don't know about crisp logical processing but I did notice that Walter's tortoises used a bumper that looks like something that you drew months ago.
Yes I noticed it used the bumper idea I proposed. An obvious possible method I would have thought. Maybe I have seen it before but forgot where and when. Or maybe same problem similar solution.
I think this is a nice introduction to fuzzy logic which you might want to implement in a robot or some other controller.