This is cool idea brought out by Willow Garage, a firm based in Silicon Valley where it is developing an open source robot operating system (ROS). The company have been going through a process of selecting eleven organisations from seventy eight proposals for the PR2 Beta Program, the winners will be receiving one PR2 Beta Robot, and the cost of the machines comes out at a massive $4 million.
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I’m not a robot scientist but I have a gut feeling that someday more sophisticated anatomy for ROS can use 3D game animators’ and movie makers’ extensive library of motion capture. This requires miniaturizing existing ROS servo systems to 1000 degree to achieve sophisticated mimic of living things such as humans. Hello nanobots. The new generation of ROS robot’s anatomy can coordinate to assigned motion (known as “rigging”) as when playing the video game with controller or let the robot run auto after getting used to the motion taught to it (AI) i.e walking, running, jumping, opening doors, cracking an egg, etc. The robots must have little RAM chips in every “muscle” fiber and decentralized power sources. The core memory when damaged can reconstruct the data base in a replacement/back up core by accessing the little memories stored in the muscle fiber RAM’s in a disastrous scenario as when explorebots are hit by meteorites, IED’s or the crushing depths of the Mariana’s trench.