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Chickadees + robots

Sound language for robots. It's true that in many cases, they don't need it - silent data transmission is efficient. On the other hand, audio simultaneously can encode information for robots & tell humans about system status.

An example with chickadees .... perhaps implying applications to/for robot swarms? Suggesting that a robot swarm communicate as required by the swarm and humans follow along as needed .... or vice versa?

Comments

• This is something we hope to be experimenting with later this year - audible, digital tones used by mobile robots but also "learnable" by people. Remember those silver binary beings on Star Trek TNG whose communication sounded like modem tones? Similar idea. The point would be that these are tones easily understood by the robots (unlike human speech), and easier for the robots to parse. I wonder what research has been done on the subject of teaching people some new "digital", machine-optimized audible language?

  Posted by: bboyes on June 25, 2005 at 11:01 AM

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