I've been doing a bit of independent homework on the web as i plan to advance from
being the novice I am and what came to mind was that some engineers and coders
were able to give robots the ability to think like an animal or give the robot the power
to learn or do a task better than it was shown to do the task.
So how do we give robots brains, are there any special functions I
could use in coding?
Brain : depends on what you would like your bot to do. (Search n Destroy humans 
)
If you want the brain to be responsive to surrounding changes, microcontroller+ sensors will be fine.
If you want the brain to be packed with heavy computing or video or image processing stuff then processors will do.
when you say brain these days AI mostly comes to mind (purely sci-fi impact).
Not sure if you need a brain like Transcendence
you may need to write complex coding depending on your requirement and may need to think on below stuff like :
- how to give reasoning to your robot
- how the robot will plan to deter obstacles and judge environment based on partial visibility (check opencv).
- how the robot perceives the environment (is it hot outside, raining outside , what ever it is blah blah blah ...)
- how it plans its next move, whether its a if-else algo or its something different based on its some AI algorithm or from stored data sets.
If its a robot you need to find tune not only on inputs(sensors) but also on its movements (actuators).
Again there are intelligent projects like the blue brain project (crazy ppl trying to understand and emulate their own mind).
Infact these things are redefining and setting new standards on what we call Engineering.
Regards
Tushar
Brain : depends on what you would like your bot to do. (Search n Destroy humans )
If you want the brain to be responsive to surrounding changes, microcontroller+ sensors will be fine.
If you want the brain to be packed with heavy computing or video or image processing stuff then processors will do.
when you say brain these days AI mostly comes to mind (purely sci-fi impact).
Not sure if you need a brain like Transcendence
you may need to write complex coding depending on your requirement and may need to think on below stuff like :
- how to give reasoning to your robot
- how the robot will plan to deter obstacles and judge environment based on partial visibility (check opencv).
- how the robot perceives the environment (is it hot outside, raining outside , what ever it is blah blah blah ...)
- how it plans its next move, whether its a if-else algo or its something different based on its some AI algorithm or from stored data sets.
If its a robot you need to find tune not only on inputs(sensors) but also on its movements (actuators).
Again there are intelligent projects like the blue brain project (crazy ppl trying to understand and emulate their own mind).
Infact these things are redefining and setting new standards on what we call Engineering.
Regards
Tushar
