Tag Archives: artificialintelligence

ASIMO Avoiding Moving Objects

Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 by Peter

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have given Honda’s humanoid robot, ASIMO, the ability to walk towards a goal position while avoiding stationary and moving obstacles. This could be the coolest, most expensive game of Frogger ever played!

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Why I got into Artificial Intelligence

Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by Peter

While I was away people were often interested to learn that I studied AI, but there were a couple of times when (otherwise very intelligent) people told me they were convinced that sufficiently advanced systems could only be used to … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Mistakes in Game AI

Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 by Peter

I saw an interesting Gamasutra article on Slashdot today about creating game AI which is “stupid” enough to be beatable, but “intelligent” enough to make realistic mistakes. Taking poker as an example: For weak poker AI, an intelligent mistake consists … Continue reading →

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Cool Japanese Helper-Robot

Posted on Friday, December 5, 2008 by Peter

Mamoru-Kun (”Little Protector”) is a robot that is able to tell his owner where an object he or she lost or misplaced within a certain area is located. He can do it verbally or by pointing at the object. It … Continue reading →

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Free Online Poker for Linux

Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Peter

I really like poker. Partly as an interesting artificial intelligence problem, but mostly as a fun way to spend time with a group of friends. Now that I’ve finished travelling the problem is finding people to play with! There are … Continue reading →

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