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https://youtu.be/EUvNcrJTriE

All-New ASIMO Humanoid Robot - Sign Language

Uploaded on Nov 9, 2011


Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today unveiled an all-new ASIMO humanoid robot newly equipped with the world's first autonomous behavior control technology. With a further advance in autonomy, the all-new ASIMO can now continue moving without being controlled by an operator. The all-new ASIMO is now advanced from an "automatic machine" to an "autonomous machine" with the decision-making capability to determine its behavior in concert with its surroundings such as movements of people. With significantly improved intelligence and the physical ability to adapt to situations, ASIMO took another step closer to practical use in an office or a public space where many people come and go. Since the establishment of the company, Honda has continued to take on new challenges in the effort to create new products and advance technologies with the spirit of utilizing technology to help people. In the area of humanoid robot research, Honda has been developing and advancing the ASIMO humanoid robot to realize a dream to be useful for people and to help enrich people's daily lives.

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"Learning to Communicate (https://blog.openai.com/learning-to-communicate)"

by Pieter Abbeel, Igor Mordatch, Ryan Lowe, Jon Gauthier, Jack Clark
March 16, 2017

Article "It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language (https://blog.openai.com/learning-to-communicate)"

by Cade Metz
March 16, 2017

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https://youtu.be/5c8Fca3LNzU

Artificial Intelligence went rogue, created its own language (About 'balls')

Published on Jun 22, 2017


Facebook's artificial intelligence bots started talking to each other and in turn created an AI language that humans worryingly can't understand. We're pretty sure they weren't just talking about 'balls.'

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Article
"AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It? (https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132632/ai-is-inventing-its-own-perfect-languages-should-we-let-it)"
Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it.

by Mark Wilson
July 14, 2017

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https://youtu.be/1FIKlVh5q04

Top 3 programming languages used in Robotics

Published on May 14, 2018


Top 3 programming languages used in Robotics Engineering.
#1: C/C++
Number 1 programming language in robotics! Why? Because a lot of hardware libraries use these languages. They allow interaction with low level hardware, allow for real time performance and are very mature programming languages. These days, you'll probably use C++ more than C, because the language has much more functionality. C++ is basically an extension of C. It can be useful to learn at least a little bit of C first, so that you can recognize it when you find a hardware library written in C. C/C++ are not as simple to use as, say, Python or MATLAB. It can take quite a lot longer to implement the same functionality using C and it will require many more lines of code. However, as robotics is very dependent on real time performance, C and C++ are probably the closest thing that we roboticists have to "a standard language".
#2: Python
There has been a huge resurgence of Python in recent years especially in robotics. One of the reasons for this is probably that Python (and C++) are the two main programming languages found in ROS. Like Java, it is an interpretive language. Unlike Java, the prime focus of the language is ease of use. Many people agree that it achieves this very well. Python dispenses with a lot of the usual things which take up time in programming, such as defining and casting variable types. Also, there are a huge number of free libraries for it, which means you don't have to "reinvent the wheel" when you need to implement some basic functionality. And since it allows simple bindings with C/C++ code, this means that performance heavy parts of the code can be implemented in these languages to avoid performance loss. As more electronics start to support Python "out-of-the-box" (as with Raspberry Pi), we are likely to see a lot more Python in robotics.
3: MATLAB
MATLAB, and its open source relatives, such as Octave, is very popular with some robotic engineers for analyzing data and developing control systems. There is also a very popular Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB. I know people who have developed entire robotics systems using MATLAB alone. If you want to analyze data, produce advanced graphs or implement control systems, you will probably want to learn MATLAB.

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Article "Which programming language is the best for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (https://www.blog.duomly.com/which-programming-language-is-the-best-for-machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence)"

by Radek Fabisiak
March 3, 2019

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Article "New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning (http://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-programming-gen-0626)"
General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more.

by Rob Matheson
June 26, 2019