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Here, you see the view from a growing
robot
developed by my colleagues in Stanford.
And this
robot
is particular, because using air pressure, it grows from the tip, while the rest of the body stays in firm contact with the environment.
With my previous research group in Europe, we developed this soft camera
robot
for surgery, which is very different from a classic endoscope, which can move thanks to the flexibility of the module that can bend in every direction and also elongate.
And here you see the soft
robot
in action, and it just goes inside.
But sometimes, a surgical procedure can even be done using a single needle, and in Stanford now, we are working on a very flexible needle, kind of a very tiny soft
robot
which is mechanically designed to use the interaction with the tissues and steer around inside a solid organ.
So imagine the little 200-gram rat attached at the extremity of this 200-kilo robot, but the rat does not feel the
robot.
The
robot
is transparent, just like you would hold a young child during the first insecure steps.
The
robot
provided the safe environment to allow the rat to attempt anything to engage the paralyzed legs.
And my hope is that after several months of training, there may be enough remodeling of residual connection to allow locomotion without the robot, maybe even without pharmacology or stimulation.
One day, I was lying in bed watching CNN, when I was amazed by Professor Charlie Kemp of the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech demonstrating a PR2
robot.
Using a mouse cursor I control with my head, these web interfaces allow me to see video from the
robot
and send control commands by pressing buttons in a web browser.
All work and no fun makes for a dull quadriplegic, so we also find time to play friendly games of
robot
soccer.
We're providing affordable, off-the-shelf
robot
platforms such as the A.R. drone, 300 dollars, the Suitable Technologies beam, only 17,000 dollars, along with open-source robotics software so that you can be a part of what we're trying to do.
All the footage was taken from our open ROV, which is a
robot
that we built in our garage.
So ROV stands for Remote Operated Vehicle, which in our case means our little
robot
sends live video across that ultra-thin tether back to the computer topside.
So Eric had an initial design idea for a robot, but we didn't have all the parts figured out, so we did what anybody would do in our situation: we asked the Internet for help.
But the actual
robot
is really only half the story.
So I went and designed frame by frame to try to make this
robot
as graceful and engaging as possible.
When humans and robots interact, it's much more like a chess game: the human does a thing, the
robot
analyzes whatever the human did, the
robot
decides what to do next, plans it and does it.
But I wanted my
robot
to be less of a chess player, and more like a doer that just clicks and works together.
And I even took another month to do what was then the first theater play with a human and a
robot
acting together.
So, I actually used two kinds of brains for the same
robot.
The
robot
is the same lamp that you saw, and I put two brains in it.
What I found is that people actually loved the adventurous
robot.
The human would play, the
robot
analyzed what was played, and would improvise their own part.
And so I tried to do the same things, this time with music, where the
robot
doesn't really know what it's about to play, it just sort of moves its body and uses opportunities to play, and does what my jazz teacher when I was 17 taught me.
So I tried to make a
robot
that doesn't actually know what it's doing, but is still doing it.
So let's look at a few seconds from this performance, where the
robot
listens to the human musician and improvises.
And then, look how the human musician also responds to what the
robot
is doing and picking up from its behavior, and at some point can even be surprised by what the
robot
came up with.
And I thought, we already have a
robot
musician on stage, why not make it be a full-fledged musician?
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