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Scientists are teaching robots how to hunt down prey

engadget.com

25 pointsgrej16 comments

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The paper: http://www.ini.unizh.ch/admin/extras/doc_get.php?id=61583

Most publications from this group are typical AI research: http://www.ini.unizh.ch/publications

The paper is essentially one wheeled robot following another wheeled robot implemented with convolutional neural networks. You are safe for now.

This is predator-prey behavior just like adaptive cruise control is predator-prey behavior.

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I see several links in the article, but they are all secondary references. Anyone have a reference to the actual "prey hunting" project.

The same skill set is needed to catch a ball or follow someone to assist (as mentioned in the article).

I am trying to figure out if this engaget article is the one hyping half-functional robots as predator machines or if the researchers themselves are promoting their work like this.

I would also like to see what the performance is like.

Their was a robot in 1999 that hunted slugs and powered itself from their decomposing bodies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/503149.stm

Well that isn't terrifying in the slightest.

"At the base, the slugs will be transferred into a fermentation chamber where bacteria convert them into bio-gas, which is used to load a fuel cell to produce the electricity to power SlugBot's batteries for its next foray."

Just the sort of development we'll need when we build Mechanical Hounds to track down criminals and their illegal book stashes...

The invisible hand moves in mysterious ways

The article could have shown you the actual robot. But instead they decided to let you imagine an indestructible titanium death cheetah.

Yes, not scary at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ

I'd really like to see those jumps overlayed/side-by-side with actual big cat jump in a similar situation - see how far away are they from each other. (re. the first clip)

A video from 2015 and one from 2013? Doesn't seem so relevant today.

Ok robot, now the prey is a human. :)

the war against the machines

How long till Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Resistance Infiltrator Model-101, Version 2.4 ???

Already in the works, somewhere.

We're screwed.

(Not really, at least not yet, but still...)

To be perfectly honest, we were screwed alot by one another before the nuke was invented.

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