10. An Autonomous Robot Needs STORIES
Robot Sensitivity Training Lesson #10: A robot doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.
At the hardware level a robot is simply a combination of chips, wires, pins, actuators, sensors, and end-effectors. How do we get from those components to a robot that can light the candles on a birthday cake or clean up after a party? At ROLL level 1, programming a robot is all about setting a voltage high/low, trapping signals, and reading pins.
At level 2, we graduate to making software drivers for the robot’s servos and actuators. We can control gear speeds using level 1 and level 2 robot programming. But at some point we want a robot that can do useful things in a meaningful environment. Not only that, we want the robot ...
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