AI in the News

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AI in the News

• Lecture 14/9/2006

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Speecys Corp has billed the ITR (Internet
Renaissance) Robot as The fifth media that
follows radio, television, PC, and cellular
phone.
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MI RAI RT RobotSpeecys Corp.
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MI RAI Future

• Speecys is new venture firm.
• Founder Tomoaki Kasuga
• Creator of the Sony Aibo
• MI RAI goes on sale over the internet on
  September 30.
• 30 cm high
• 1.5 Kg
• Power source Lithium polymer electric battery
  (7.4V 780mA) or AC adapter
• Cost 2500 (18.230 SEK)

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MI RAI Future

• Dances and sings to programs downloaded from
  Speecys' Web site Robotamia.
• Reads out the news, the weather forecast and
  horoscopes.
• Other content that can be downloaded from the
  same site includes English conversation lessons.
• When left alone for a certain period of time,
  starts talking to itself.
• Sometimes evens sings to itself.

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MI RAI Future

• Owners can get their robots to say things and at
  the same time gesticulate using PC or mobile
  phone.
• Can be expertly controlled with a PC or a mobile
  phone by people who have no special knowledge of
  robots.
• View video demos at
• http//www.speecys.com/download.html

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MI RAI

• MI RAI is fully articulated and connected via
  wireless LAN to the internet.
• The robots maintain contact with each other
  through a new website called Robotamia.
• The site will also serve as a central point for
  the community of owners of MI RAI's.
• The robots will be able download to read the
  news, sing and dance and tell fortunes.
• They can also get English lessons, quizzes and
  games from Robotamia.

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MI RAI at Home (Scene II)
Speecys say they are pioneering the concept of 3D
message communications by allowing the sender of
messages to control the movement of the robot as
it speaks. The movement instructions will be sent
in the message with RTML Robot Transaction Markup
Language.
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MI RAI at Home (Scene I)
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MI RAI at Home (Scene III)
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CityMobil EU Projecthttp//www.citymobil-projec
t.eu
The CityMobil project will validate and
demonstrate the capabilities of new mobility
solutions in different European cities. In 5
horizontal sub-projects the issues that still
prevent full scale implementation of innovative
automated transport systems will be investigated
and solutions will be developed.
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CityMobil Hopeful?
Total Recall
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CityMobil Realistic?
Heathrow Airport?
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CityMobil

• How do you get rid of all the cars in cities?
• Get rid of the drivers, of course!
• Public mass transportation can help some, but it
  only goes so far in reducing the problem.
• Many people still have the need to keep a
  personal vehicle.

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CityMobil

• CityMobil is a 40 million project.
• Involves 28 partners in 10 countries.
• They will construct and operate three operating
  robot transportation systems.
• London's Heathrow airport
• The new exhibition centre in Rome
• The town of Castellón in eastern Spain.

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CityMobil

• The systems will operate on-demand like taxis but
  will not have drivers.
• The idea is that this type of public
  transportation will be a middle ground between
  the restrictions of mass transit and the excesses
  of individual cars.
• They are designed to operate within existing
  roads and infrastructue.

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CityMobil

• The pupose will be to find the obstacles to
  full-scale implementation of driverless systems.
• The idea of robot taxis is not brand new for
  Europe. Project is outgrowth of
• Cybernetic Transportation Systems for the Cities
  of Tomorrow (CyberMove)
• http//www.cybermove.org/
• CYBERnetic CARS for a new transportation system
  in the cities (CyberCars)
• http//www.cybercars.org/

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CityMobil Events
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The Event
Main themeTNO is organising a symposium on
cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems on 29
November 2006 (the Netherlands, Eindhoven),
during which the various stakeholders will be
giving their views on the development of
cooperative systems at a plenary session.
Workshops will then explore these views in more
depth.This symposium also gives TNO the
opportunity to demonstrate its toolkit that is
able to test cooperative systems at various
stages of their development. In addition, there
will be (real world) demonstrations of
cooperative systems and presentations of a
variety of projects that focus on the
development, evaluation and implementation of
such systems. Attached to this mail you will
find our announcement. If you are interested in
participating in this symposium, please use the
voting buttons or reply to trafficandtransport_at_tn
o.nl.If you have any questions please contact
Johanne Steenbergen (T 31 15 269 68 78)TNO,
Traffic and Transport
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Homework!!

• Learn how Research funding is organized at the EU
  Level.Seventh Framework ProgrammeFP7, the
  EU's chief instrument for funding scientific
  research and technological development over the
  period 2007 to 2013, is one of the most important
  elements in realising the Lisbon agenda for
  growth and competitiveness. http//cordis.europa
  .eu/fp7/