DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Doggie Do Detection and Human Equivalency

Mon Dec 18 11:17:44 CST 2006

How about just one piece of SW to take care of chores like this from the 
side of artificial receptors? A general object recognition program which 
meets the criterion of "human equivalency" (as coined by Hans Moravec). How 
many years do you think we are away from DDD SW? Come on, all you .NET 
programming geniuses ... get busy! The SW will enable your pc-attached 
camera to recognize doggy do anytime, anyplace as well as a human. It will 
pass the doggy do Turing Test.

Picking up doggie do is not so difficult even for a machine once it is 
recognized for what it is.

PtP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Larson" <ted at larsonland.com>
To: "'Bruce K. Harlan'" <bkharlan at bkharlan.com>; <dprglist at dprg.org>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [DPRG] More Roomba Bashing

>
> LOL!  Now there is a great idea for a service robot product!
>
> Call it something cool like...the "Mine Sweeper", and dress it up in 
> cammo.
> It should be able to handle mines from all sized animals, all the way from 
> a
> toy poodle, up to a great dane.  Although, it would need to be able to 
> empty
> the doodie-box, into the trash autonomously.  Imagine the soup you would 
> be
> cleaning out of the thing, after a dewy, or rainy nite....ugh.
>
> -Ted
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dprglist-bounces at dprg.org [mailto:dprglist-bounces at dprg.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Bruce K. Harlan
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: dprglist at dprg.org
> Subject: [DPRG] More Roomba Bashing
>
> As for myself, I'm waiting on the Scoopa to clean up the landmines the
> dog leaves in the back yard.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bruce K. Harlan
> 972-897-6709
> bkharlan at bkharlan.com
>
>
>
>
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