The blog shows some of the features of the Nao robot including (talking, walking,interacting with humans as well as other robots, recognizing objects etc). The video's that i saw were very optomistic by showing all of the details of the robot for advertisement purposes. the makers of the video were aldebaran-robotics. The video
APS Citation: Ed. Linday Jones Vol. 1 2nd ed. Detroit; Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. P509-513. COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale, Gengage Learning Noreen Herzfeld
The definition of artificial intellegence is the study of creating technology systems that will be able to perfrom tasks that usually require human intelligence on its own. (Herzfeld, Noreen, Artificial Intelligence.2005.p510)
According to the encyclopida definition of artificial intelligence the Nao robot is artificially intelligent because the robot is able to perform tasks with out the help of a human such as walking, talking, and interacting with otehr robots. The Nao robot thinks like humans in some ways they dont think exactly like human yet but they will in the future. The Nao robots dont have artificial emotions yet but itis very important for the robots to have artificial intelligence because they will serve more use.
The Video of the Nao robot is more of an advertisement showing what the Nao robot is capable of doing but the written technical decription provides the reader specific information about the the robot, it tells you what the Nao robot is cabable of doing and why for ex. "Vision is one of the most important capabilities in the human-robot interaction. A strong vision capabilty will allow the robot to see the orient towards objects, to walk to them, grasp them and bring them to the user" (Cooperative Human Robot Interaction with the Nao Humanoid. p.2)The technical description also presents all of the details of the parts inside of the Nao robot "More specifcally, the Nao is equipped with the following: CPU: x86 AMD Geode with 500 MHz, Memory: 256 SDRAM and 1 Gb Flash memory, WiFi (802.11g) and Ethernet, 2 x 640x480 camera with up to 30 frames per second"(Cooperativr Human Robot Interaction with the Nao Humanoid.p.2) with information like this the reader knows exactly what is in the robot and how it opperartes. The advantage that the video has is that it will be very appealing to the audience when it demonstrates what the robot is capable of which will atrract alot of people, but the technical decription provides alot of information that the audience may be curious about
