Now it is very much used robots in the army.
The army and the police use of drones, autonomous trucks and robots to work sapper. BigDog is a good example of technology developed for the military.
The robot was presented to the world a few years ago, but today is an impressive achievement.
Another and more recent example is the ATLAS robot. It is a humanoid robot with impressive capabilities.
Please watch the video and visit the website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkBnFPBV3f0
http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_Atlas.html
http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html
Is an impressive a fragment of the robot slips on the ice.
Please answer the questions.
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
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Basicaly a gyroscope with complex feedback loops (with input from vision) and analysis of those.
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It's amazing, because even if I thought about answer to that question, I'm sure, that my answer would be about few years obsolete. We can never know!
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Big dog in particular? I think that it has potential in hard terrain (mountains) but has flaws in design (narrow, weak legs) the cities. Any explosion would knock him off.
It think that robots on the battlefield is an obvious future that will be seen with out eyes in next decades.
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I do not think that war is anyhow moral. But it's interesting from the thereotical point of view.
#pacifism on
First of all we have to say that any war events (that involves combat with high risk of loosing human live) is highly immoral. It's our duty as a civilized, modern society to make our best and introduce an end to it.
Then... it comes to the statistics, Let's say that using robots may lead to less unnecessary deaths (robots designed to injure, not to kill). Than it is an ethical move to introduce robots on the battlefield. But.. let's do not be naive. Who considers ethics on battlefield and when investing in military technology? Thats right. Nobody,
I think that we kill and we will kill in pointless battles till the last days of the humanity. In each case - participation will be meaningless.
#pacifism off
Q1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteTo be honest it is not my cup of tea. Having read the paper BigDog's is equipped with on-board computer control system and sensors that keep its balance. Sensors are responsible for "joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load". Robot has got a gyroscope too, "LIDAR and a stereo vision system". I suppose that in on-board computer control system are implemented algorithms that computing data from sensors and send signals to elevating cylinder to keep balance. Łukasz, am I right?
Q2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
ReplyDeleteI`m sure that there is a time for remote-controlled robot plane or drones to watch the scene from the bird point of view. They provide a very important operational data to a command control room.
Q3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
ReplyDeleteI`m sure they haven`t got any chance to survive. They have a very week construction at present and are not ready enough for fighting on a training ground.
Q4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
ReplyDeleteFor me the whole idea of war is immoral.
Thank you for your comments.
ReplyDeleteBig dog certainly uses gyroscopes to maintain balance. I think that the equipment used is not everything. The algorithm is also certainly very complicated.
I agree that the war is immoral. There is no good war and there is no bad peace.
But it was the war of accelerate the development of new technologies.
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteIt is probably a complex system of gyroscopes with quick feedback mechanisms supported by very advanced motion algorithms. This is my guess, probably the real technology used will not be revealed for a while.
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
There is definitely a constant progress in this field. The US Army has a huge budget for research which is has an impact on the progression of the technology. From 2008 there has been a great improvement in machine learning so new robots might be really impressive. They might have greatly developed skills of visual objects detection & speech recognition.
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
Army robots are made of very durable materials so chances of their survival are high. However, I think it might me still relatively easy to neutralize them – in case of the BigDog robot it might be sufficient to damage one of its legs to make it useless in the field.
4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
Wars are never moral and there are no rules in the war as part of the old saying goes. Sending robots instead of people to war is saving these people’s lives. On the other hand, these robots are sent to kill other people. There is no good or bad answer here – it all depends on which side of the conflict you are. Soon there will be robots fighting robots and this moral dilemma will be gone :)
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteI have truly no idea. Maybe some kind of gyroscopes and accelerometers. I really don't know.
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
Perhaps they are more autonomous. Maybe they have more specialized limbs to handle objects.
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
Now I doubt that they can survive. Soldiers are trained how to vastly cover themselves from fire. Even if they have armor they can by easily taken off by anti-tank weapon. There is chance with fire accurance of the robots. Maybe they are not fast but they do not have shaking limbs and they are not paralyzed by fear. With proper software they can be vulnerable but deadly dangerous.
4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
If not now then shortly latter someone will invent killing robots. There must be some kind of limitations of that weapon. As a nuclear weapon people should realize that number of robots can be dangerous for humankind. Especially when artificial intelligence will gain appropriate advance complexity.
Q1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteActually, I have no idea :)
Q2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
I believe that there is a huge progress, countries spend big money on reinforcement of the army and we have more and more programmers specialized in robotics.
Q3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
I hope not. It would mean that we could use robots to fight in war. They would be able to kill people, so I hope that it will never happen.
Q4. Do you think that this is moral to use these machine against other people?
No, I don't. I think that there shouldn't be any war.
In my opinion, such a robot would be very handy mountain rescuers or miner.
ReplyDeleteI also think that it would be useful to transport in poor countries where there are no roads.
What civil use this robot you see?
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteIt has sensors for joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a gyroscope, light detection and ranging system and a stereo vision. So basically it has a lot of sensors and an onboard computer which processes all that information.
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
They have a lot of drones. Regarding those robots, I think this video shows the current state of things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFkDV2NKEY
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
I don’t think those particular robots would be very useful on the battlefield or have a high chance of survival, but probably in few years they will get stronger, better and much more useful.
4. Do you think that this is moral to use these machine against other people?
I think warfare has been unfair since the invention of bow and arrows. You’re standing on a battlefield, waiting to cut someone in half with your axe, but you can’t because someone shoots you in the knee from a safe distance. It's only getting worse with robots.
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteTo be honest i don't have idea :)
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
I think that they have smaller and more agile robots now:)
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
This robot from video is to big and to slow so I think that that kind robots have no chance to survive on the battlefield
4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
I think that war isn't moral bu if someone need to fight it is better to use robot than people
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteA:/> Sensors? (accelerometers, gyroscopes..) / torque balance ? (source ->http://www.smashingrobotics.com/how-a-robot-can-keep-its-balance-and-stand-up-even-if-it-get-kicked-case-study/)
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
A:/> I've checked all the other robots from the same company and there is one thing for sure is that they are very successful with the dynamics. The answer to question is beyond my knowledge and expertise.
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
A:/> Hmm. I've never experienced an actual war or something similar though but still knowing how humankind is creative when it comes to matter of life and death, I wouldn't give robots much chance for now.
4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
A:/> That's for sure. Consider the latest events i.e. life saving 'water', used by some people to torture others. Why not robots..
Thanks for the subject though.
1. What methods are used to maintain balance?
ReplyDeleteI would guess that a gyroscope coupled with a set of sensors and some camera to see terrain sloping and of course bundled with some amount of algorithms, make a solid toolset to provide balance in robots. Of course some of those vary depending on the type of limbs that the robot possesses (number of legs, wheels, etc.). A more detail explanation of how it works like for two-legged robots can be found here.
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
This is kept secret, we will probably find out when it will finally be used in action. Most articles on the internet point out BigDog to be one of the more successful and known.
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
It depends on the conditions of the battlefield and the weapons that are used. BigDog is supposed to be a supportive robot carrying heavy rations for the soldiers so that they don't have too (food, ,medicine, tents, ammo, etc.). It could be used as a vessel to send rations to a squadron that is under fire and can't be reached without taking risks. It should possess some non-penetrative armor though since the circuits are all very exposed as shown in the video. Also in the video it's very noisy, so it can't participate in stealth operations.
4. Do you think that it is morally acceptable to use these machines against other people?
We already have systems that make decisions and could affect the lives of many people. The case is similar here. The weapon (here robot) is not to be blamed but the person or people that pulled the trigger (people managing and designing the robot).
1. What methods are used to maintain a balance?
ReplyDeleteMost likely it's the same electronics found in smartphones: accelerometers and gyroscopes along with other sensors and software algorithms.
2. This is a robot from 2008. What do you think the military technology has now?
I remember this robot, I wonder if they ever made use of it? I also seem to recall a much bigger remote controlled robot. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIaXEMOhihw
3. Do you think that the robot has a chance to survive on the battlefield?
Initially, it may have a chance, but people learn quickly and they will always find ways to outsmart a robot once they learn how it operates. Then it takes time to update the robot and make it effective again. Unless it really is vastly superior.
4. Do you think that the moral to use these machines against other people?
It would probably be sold to the public as a way of saving the lives of solders, so we would only look at it from that perspective. Less people are harmed at the cost of building those robots.