Vision-equipped apelike robot based on the remote-brained approach

Abstract

Presents a new type of robot which has two arms and two legs like an ape and is aimed at studying a variety of vision-based behaviors. The robot does not bring its own brain within the body. It leaves the brain in the mother environment and talks with it by radio links. The brain is raised in the mother environment inherited over generations. The key idea of the remote-brained approach is that of interfacing intelligent software systems with real robot bodies through wireless technology. In this framework the robot system can have a powerful vision system in the brain environment. The authors have applied this approach to formation of vision-based dynamic and intelligent behaviors of a multi-limbed mobile robot. In this paper the authors present an apelike robot with the remote-brained environment and describe vision-based experiments carried out with the apelike robot.