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To: Ben Goertzel
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Subject: Re: Hanson Robotics
This is terrific! Thank you!
On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Ben Goertzel <-> wrote:
> Hi Christina,
> Attached find a version of the research proposal that was used to
> achieve our funding for robotics work from the HK government (which is
> a 90-10 matching grant, and Jeffrey has been helping with the 10%
> corporate sponsorship portion, indirectly by donating $$ to the
> nonprofit org Humanity+ which then grants it to my impoverished
> consulting firm Novamente LLC, which is the formal corporate sponsor
> of the project ;p kinda convoluted I know!! ) .
> This will tell you about the aims of our current work. At the moment
> our robotics work is still getting off the ground, though. We have
> also begun working with Mark Tilden, who builds awesome robot
> bodies... This video tells the story of our growing collaboration in
> a less formal way:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VblofRjtXjQ
> By the way, a 48-minute documentary film discussing some earlier,
> similar robotics work I did in 2009 is here:
> http://singularityorbust.com
> Also, attached find some photos of our robots.... (The Femi-Einstein
> ones are just for fun and obviously not suitable for an article... I
> just crudely duct-taped one of David Hanson's Einstein heads on one of
> Mark Tilden's FemiSapien bodies. Because -- well -- why not ? )
> A research paper discussing the computer vision aspects of our
> robotics work is here:
> http://goertzel.org/agi-13/DeSTIN_PLN_v3.pdf
> and a crude video of that talk is here:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcwHFniCtc
> thx ;)
> Ben
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:01 AM,
> wrote:
» Hi Ben,
» I hope that you are well.
» I'm drafting an article on the intelligence that you are creating/
» have created for Hason Robotics specifically.
» Is it comparable to the intelligence that you developed for the
» virtual platforms?
» Thank you for sending any documentation about this.
» I.regards,
» cell:
» email:
> Ben Goertzel, PhD
> http://goertzel.org
> "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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