KR01- Robot Build- Live from New Zealand!

Join us for a special online treat during our world-wide quarantine!

This month, DPRG and NZPRG (New Zealand Personal Robotics Group https://robots.org.nz/) together bring you this world-wide event in the spirit of global cooperation.

Murray Altheim will share a presentation from his home base in New Zealand. Murray will describe his ongoing “KR01” robot build.

How to Join
Meeting ID
https://meet.google.com/snx-isac-zqt/

Phone Number
(backup in case of trouble with computer audio,
add a comment to this meetup if you need a phone number for other locations)

(‪US‬)‪+1 609-469-1745‬
PIN: ‪862 716 153#‬

New Zealand (NZ) +64 9-888 9450
PIN: 182 071 406 0006#

About the presentation- As Murray noted:
The KR01 project was initially inspired by David Anderson's YouTube video,
followed up by doing background research into the basics of subsumption
architectures and related topics, towards building a Behaviour Based System
(BBS) in Python. After reading through Rodney Brooks' papers I felt a bit
like a Brooks convert, i.e., that there is more to be explored within the
realm of building "Complete Creatures Rather than Isolated Cognitive
Simulators"[1]. Later research (e.g., [2]) pointed to the possibility of
adding a layer of logic over a BBS. So with this I began my own exploration.

My goals have been to
a) learn Python,
b) play with new hardware (it's fun
building things!), and
c) investigate what the availability of low-cost,
high-functionality sensors might have on the behavioural complexity of
BBS-type robots, that is, what kinds of emergent behaviours might arise?
Is there any possibility of learning behaviours at a relatively small scale?

[1] How to Build Complete Creatures Rather than Isolated Cognitive Simulators
Rodney A. Brooks, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/how-to-build.pdf

[2] Logic-based subsumption architecture, Eyal Amir, Pedrito Maynard-Zhang
Artificial Intelligence, Volume 153, Issues 1–2, March 2004, Pages 167-237
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437020300170X
https://tinyurl.com/h2bccrtics

Note that we’ve blocked lots of extra time for this meeting, in case participants would like to continue chatting after the main presentation.

About DPRG Monthly Meetings

DPRG hosts cool presentations each month during its regular membership meeting. These meetings and presentations are open to public and free to attend.

We hope to see you there. Everyone is welcome to attend.

About DPRG
Dallas Personal Robotics Group has been actively building robots for fun since 1984.
We meet every Tuesday evening and every 2nd Saturday, and frequently participate in community events.
We usually meet at the Dallas MakerSpace, and we always welcome guests of all ages and skill levels!
We have tons of experience and love to share and trade tips and tricks.
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https://www.dprg.org/
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Note: we do record a video of these sessions to post on the DPRG YouTube channel. By joining the meeting you’re giving consent to be included in the recording.