Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Robotics/Archive 1

message: ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 02:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: -_- I don't believe my eyes.  As per WP:AGF, I'll hold my comments.  Please stick to objective discussions.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Technological singularity for the win. :) · AndonicO Hail! 19:20, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

text: P.S. I guess the most annoying bit for me, and I know the same happens for a lot of people working on robots, is that I just see myself as slogging through a difficult subject, trying to build something useful to make people's lives a little easier, but for some reason, the typical reaction is very off-the-wall...people have a variety of preconceptions that what roboticists are doing is hilarious, or scary, or foolhardy, or clueless and geeky...and for some reason, they are very uninhibited about sharing. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 03:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well Dan, I'd like you to know that I'm very serious about kickstarting this WikiProject and you can be sure the major stuff should be nailed out most likely by the end of the week unless my birthday festivities get extended... :D  I like the brainstorming, but if users have fundamental issues with this WikiProject's existence, I'd believe that these issues should have been addressed before it was created, not after.  Besides, it was sitting in the Village Dump for ages.  :)  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

text: o/~ Sometimes I feel the weight of the world, it's so heavy and it's gettin' me down... - Dan Dank55 (talk) 02:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  THIS PROJECT IS EVIL AND SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN! 

message: The culture at Wikipedia, and the rules at WP:NOT in particular, might not be as supportive of robotics editors as we might want...and maybe it would be a good idea to fix that problem before we start wrestling with admins over robotics articles. There is a constant tension among three groups...and many people (like me) are in all 3 groups, so let's say, 3 different focuses.  One focus is improving Wikipedia articles...there's no problem there, we know how to deal with this.
The second focus is anxiety about broader implications of technology (see above), and there's no easy fix for that.  Sometimes this leads to intrusive behavior, but the bigger problem is it usually just makes people give up and go away.  In the case of robotics, the problem is that everyone cares.  Cars are robots, robots are used in war to kill people, food is cheap because of modern farming robots.  We need robots, we can't get rid of them, but we don't know how they work, we don't trust them, and we are all suspicious of the people pulling the levers.  This anxiety intrudes constantly and forcefully into WP robotics articles...not just with vandalism, although there's a lot of that.  Mostly, the problem is that we don't get the same level of wiki-love and support that makes WP work so well.  If you are still reading this, but your eyes have started to glaze over and you're having a strong desire to go read something else, then you understand exactly what I'm talking about.
The third focus is the desire to get something done in the real world, as opposed to writing good WP articles.  This would include a student sharing information helpful to other students, a househusband who has played around with robotic vacuums and has very useful things to say about what works and what doesn't, or an expert in a particular field who knows exactly what software works and what doesn't.  The most relevant WP:NOT rule here is the one about unsourced material...which works really well when dealing with, say, history, but not when the relevant subject material is being updated every month, and usually by people who are not academics or journalists.
The bottom line is that, although WP policies have done magical things in other subject areas, they aren't working as well for robotics articles in particular and technology articles in general.  The person who wants to know what bird he just saw can come to WP with confidence; the person who wants to know if he can buy a robot to fetch a beer out of the fridge is going to be disappointed, because the WP process only does really well with the simplest and most well-established technological questions.  It seems to me we ought to be able to do better.
I'm not looking for the magic answer to all this, but I am inviting comment, and it would be great to know where in WP similar issues have been hammered out before. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 14:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps an example would help.  If you want to know the color of the tail feathers of some extinct bird, Wikipedia is wonderful for that, and for lots of other facts which are probably of interest to only a few people.  If you want to know the names of the 3 most common robots in US or European homes, and what they can and can't do, you're out of luck if you search Wikipedia...and you'll only find out that you're out of luck after reading something over 600 pages trying to find what you're looking for.  There are in fact communities of people who have good insight into what robots are popular, what they can do, how to train them, where to buy them...but these communities are not attracted to Wikipedia as much as some other communities are.  That's an understatement...I have tried to get hobbyists more interested in Wikipedia, Wikia and Wikiversity (as appropriate) and failed completely.  That's partly because I haven't tried for long, and partly because they don't already know how great and how important Wikipedia and sister sites are.  But it's also because they feel that they would have to put up with a lot here that they don't have to put up with on their own sites.  I could go into detail but I won't...I'm just trying to sketch the problem and invite people to share their perspective. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 19:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  An interesting problem with technology-related articles 

message: I believe the "An open letter to our new members" section is a very nice touch, but it is more geared towards the objectives of the outreach page.  I'd like to motion to have this section moved as well as attach a copy to the Invitation template. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 00:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motion to move "An open letter to our new members" to Outreach page 

message: Since it's been a while since anyone has taken interest in this WikiProject, I'll see if I can spruce up the place a little bit.  Feel free to join in... it's so quiet here... - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 22:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bringing this WikiProject to order 

message: I added a link for "Home robotics".  I'm getting a sense that we have two entirely different audiences here...the home robotics people are likely to need simpler English and, in general, simpler articles and a simpler approach.  Many of them will have little or no experience with Wikipedia, so let's keep this link roughly where it is, that is, the 3rd section down. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 14:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, the "For" template is a good choice, Jameson - Dan Dank55 (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: link to "Home robotics" now deleted.  I'm going to leave wikiproject robotics.  It's not a problem with Jameson, it's just that the wikiproject doesn't do what I hoped...I wanted to iron some things out in a general discussion rather than individually in each article, but I don't think it's going to happen, and judging from the histories in the articles I patrol, the issues tend to be different from article to article anyway.  - Dan Dank55 (talk) 15:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home Robotics 

message: The external links look very superfluous and messy.  Can I establish consensus that finding one website which links all of the teams would be more acceptable and help clean up the article a little bit?  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 20:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Follow Up: Same applies on DARPA Grand Challenge (2005).  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 22:03, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: (copied from article talk page) I had to think about it awhile and do some poking around, but I totally agree.  We already have the "DGC-2004 teams" link, and looking quickly, I can't find any discrepancies between their list and ours.  There's a basic rule of database design: don't list the same information in two places, because it will inevitably get out of sync, and then people get bad information.  Let's put the burden of updating the information on DARPA and on the teams rather than on us. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 22:29, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[DARPA Grand Challenge (2004)]] 

message: I created a userbox for the WikiProject: 
 
If anyone would like to use it tell me and I'll create a subpage for it in my userspace. Happy editing, Midorihana~iidesune? 07:51, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually had one designed that's just sitting in my sandbox at the moment.  User:Jamesontai/Sandbox15.  It also includes an automatic transclusion of a listing in the WP:ROBO User Category that's on the Project Sidebar.  Perhaps we could merge the two into something really kick-ass?  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh!  Hmm... I like yours, but the picture is a bit big.  Midorihana~iidesune? 06:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

text: It'd be cool if the picture could be shrunk just a tad, but the text on the picture be enlarged to make it more legible --JadeFox (talk) 07:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Looks awesome. :) Midorihana~いいですね? はい! 07:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox 

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thread_title:  Project Logo 

message: Hi - I came across the following categories
* :Category:Artificial intelligence
* :Category:Machine learning
* :Category:Computer vision
and noticed that most articles are not associated with a WikiProject. These three fields are obviously very important to robotics, but I'm hesitant to add them to our project, since together, they cover more broad topics than the scope of WikiProject Robotics.
What I'd like to do is to start a new "WikiProject Intelligent Systems", covering topics such as:
* Computer vision - computational perception, which supplies sensory information for
* Artificial intelligence - intelligent decision making, etc, and outputs commands to 
* Control theory - actuators, effectors, etc...
Robotics would play a very important role in this project, since it is the foremost example of an intelligent system.  Obviously, creating a completely new WikiProject requires a lot of time and effort, so I wonder if we can establish consensus here to make the transition into this new WikiProject - we could certainly benefit from the arrival of experts in their respective fields (closely related, but outside of robotics).
Any thoughts? --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 23:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll join, but your key problem is going to be finding article contributors.  There are very few active article creators on Wikipedia in these areas.  I spend most of my time maintaining guidelines and reviewing articles, but I'll help when I can.  If "scope of wikiproject robotics" means if you're asking if these articles are in our scope, no, there are not many robotics editors, either. - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 00:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  That is true - there are very few editor in these areas. --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 12:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there are in fact very few robotics editors, mainly because a good majority of Wikipedia editors are either in high school or in college and does not have the proper expertise to edit higher-level subjects revolving around mechatronics and robotics.  I do agree though that the three categories do fit the scope of WikiProject Robotics, especially machine learning.  Please send me a message if you're interested in including those articles in our WikiProject.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 16:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Jameson, I hope the semester went well.  I have no objections to including these or any articles in the scope of Wikiproject Robotics; best of luck. - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 17:30, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Hi Tpl - I absolutely agree with your points above. I tagged the CV articles because
#I mentioned above (which are also agreeed upon by two of our editors) that this WikiProject is transitioning to include not only robotics, but also intelligent systems related fields. CV is a critical part of any intelligent systems, no?
#A large number of articles I tagged was without any WikiProject, and some others were included in WP:Computing. I think in comparison, a WikiProject in intelligent systems has a much better chance of improving these CV articles than a general project like WP:Computing. (my point is, there is currently no organizing structure for improving CV articles)
#As there were no WikiProjects specifically for CV, I was unable to check with the other CV editors such as yourself prior to tagging.
So, these are my excuses, so to speak. To make you (and other editors with similar concerns) happy, I'd like to ask:
# Are you happy with the reasoning above?
# Would you like to start a separate WikiProject Computer Vision? (which I'll join)
# Would you like to start an official proposal to rename this WikiProject to WikiProject Intelligent Systems? (which I'll support)
#...and then organize separate task forces for AI, learning, CV, etc...?
I like the rename idea, as I have originally proposed. But I'm open to suggestions.
--Jiuguang (talk) 13:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Also, I did the tagging without a bot mainly because I did not want to include irreverent topics - I think I did a reasonable job at that. if you see a math, econ, etc...article tagged by mistake, please help me remove it. Thanks! --Jiuguang (talk) 13:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem!  And Thanks for your hard work!  I'll run the article bot and we'll see the new articles pop up in the logs soon.  I'll post the link when I find it and it becomes updated. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 14:15, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK... I just ran the bot.  Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics/Assessment#Assessment Logs now has a a bunch of articles noted.  Juiguang, you might want to also classify the articles as you're tagging them.  Please assess the articles according to our assessment guidelines.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 14:27, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Jameson. It now seems that 75% of the articles in this project are unassessed...this should be fun. --Jiuguang (talk) 15:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of WikiProject Robotics 

message: This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist  10:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics 

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thread_title:  Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme 

message: This is a continuation of the Scope of WikiProject Robotics thread above.
@ Tpl - thanks again for your comments. My thoughts on the subject consists of mainly two issues.
1. Issue 1: Assuming that we do not have enough active editors in these areas, is it better to leave the categories alone without a WikiProject, or should we expand the scope of an existing WikiProject (such as this one, since it is probably the closest related project) to include them?
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: I personally think that no articles on Wikipedia should be left without a WikiProject, and in this case, this project (or an expanded version thereof) should take the responsibilities to organize materials in these areas, even if we don't have enough active editors to actually improve the articles. I believe in organization - I think appropriately classified articles give people motivation to work on them.
2. Issue 2: Assume that we have enough editors  to create separate WikiProjects for each of these categories. Should we do that?
:  What I'd like to ask as a follow-up is that if there is a WikiProject Computer Vision, how does it relate to WikiProject Pattern Recognition and WikiProject Machine Learning? It seems to me that there is so much overlap in these areas that it is impossible to draw the lines among the WikiProjects. I have serious doubt over whether a CV project in itself can stand alone, without incorporating information from related fields. If you were to do that, then that's basically a mini-WikiProject Intelligent Systems.
: My ideal structure is similar to what is happening with WikiProject Biography - different types of biographies are classified under different task forces (I'm active on the science and academia task force). Granted, their scope (biography-only) is more clearly defined then our situation, but there is a clear structure, which we currently don't have.
--Jiuguang (talk) 18:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: So, while editing the new  template, I've encountered some issues due to our existing category setup. A few of our current WikiProject categories uses non-standard capitalization - for example, :Category:Category-class Robotics articles , the "class" should be capitalized. Since I can't change that in the new template, I'll make the modifications in the existing template...--Jiuguang (talk) 15:00, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if we have non-standard capitalization (it happens... I started making those categories around 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning last year), feel free to move the category name to the correct capitalization.  It'll work for now such that it'll just redirect.  You'll also find some non-standard categories like "List class robotics articles" probably.  I've pretty much been utilizing what WP:UNI was using in addition to some other larger WikiProjects as reference.  If you see something that doesn't belong, please let me know.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 16:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I've made the appropriate changes in the template, but apparently, it takes a few days to update the category? I guess we'll wait and see what happens. --Jiuguang (talk) 16:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New {{tl|WPBannerMeta}} issues 

message: On 11 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with  from the article Visual odometry, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Do we have a place where we can keep track of the robotics articles featured on DYK? --Jiuguang (talk) 13:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not yet, but I can make one! :D  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 14:01, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  (Actually I made a couple hours ago...forgot to follow up... :D)  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 16:20, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, I saw - hopefully, I'll add a couple of more entires this weekend. --Jiuguang (talk) 17:21, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured content 

message: Hi, Robotshop is up for deletion but it seems like it may be a noteworthy company. Can anyone offer insight to help find sources or otherwise help other editors clue-in if this company is notable? Banjeboi 13:32, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So I removed the first wave of blatant spam.  I'm kind of busy today and I can't finish the review right now, but I'll be back later on today.  If someone else can hop on the bandwagon and help me remove the rest of the spam that'd be great.  Thanks.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Robotshop]] is up for deletion 

message: I have made a barnstar for this WikiProject.  Please give me your thoughts on it here.  Thanks.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 04:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, if someone can do some photoshop work to incorporate the gears into a barnstar, that would be awesome.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 04:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done New  has been created.  Please follow the template document for proper syntax usage.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 01:36, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: WikiProject Robotics Barnstar 

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replies: text: Sure, it sure wouldn't hurt.  Thanks for letting us know!  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles flagged for cleanup 

message: I was on the WikiIRC channel and came across this: User:Lady Aleena/Test banner.  Will this offer more or less abilities for us?  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: One advantage it has over the existing banner is this "improvement" drop down, but I see you still have to enter parameters like "attention=yes". It would be really interesting if the banner can pick up clean up tags in the article itself, and sort the article in our WikiProject accordingly. That would be a useful feature. --Jiuguang (talk) 12:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI: The new template is explained further here.  Anyone else want to pitch into the discussion is more than welcome to.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 23:45, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banners 

message: Hey guys, I created this article. Still needs work, if anyone can help out. ScienceApe (talk) 17:06, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No offense, but this article looks like a textbook example of a possible WP:HOAX, especially since the only real inline citation is a youtube video, which does not satisfy WP:RS whatsoever.  (Also words like rumor never helps either)  I'll be gone for the rest of the day, so I can't get to it before someone might nominate it for deletion.  Whoever wants to work on this will have to gather some extensive reliable third-party sources for some decent inline citations and establish notability.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:28, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

text: This is just for future reference, ScienceApe, but the next time you create an article that may not survive peer review by other Wikipedia editors (to delete), please put it in your WP:SANDBOX and link us to the sandbox page.  That way we all have more time to refine the wording, provide sources, etc.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a hoax. Not too many sources, other than their official website. http://www.cyberstein.co.uk/ which I did list on the article. There's also a Q/A at WikiAnswers http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_titan_the_robot_a_real_person_or_a_machine You can try google Titan the Robot on google as well, and it brings up some hits. ScienceApe (talk) 18:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, WikiAnswers is not a third-party reliable source, neither is the robot's manufacturer (Cyberstein's website would be a primary source).  Please read the link on WP:RS.  Until then, I will mark the tag with the associated article issues.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 22:15, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't seem like it's a hoax, more like it's an act of some sort.  Midorihana みどりはな 23:21, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I know, but it's better than nothing. For now, this is pretty much what I can find for this robo. ScienceApe (talk) 23:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

text: Comment: I don't think it's a hoax after doing a little background, but I still think this article lacks the reason to be on Wikipedia.  Sure it's been on BBC, but wouldn't those just be a WP:ONEEVENT issue?  It doesn't establish notability if all it does is verify that something exists.  Also, the tone of this article is kind of sketchy.  I'm still not sure of this article yet.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 23:41, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: James, I let the robotics project page know about this article I created specifically so you guys can help improve it. I wrote the article in just a few minutes, it's really just a stub right now, and needs some help. ScienceApe (talk) 00:52, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think right now what the article needs is some good solid sources to help build up the article. Hopefully we can find some on Google or elsewhere... Midorihana みどりはな 21:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Titan the Robot]] article created 

message: Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 11#Robot categories. Thanks! --Jiuguang (talk) 23:05, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I weighed in on 4 of the categories.  No opinion on ecological robots. - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 02:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually agree with you - I don't particularly care about the deaths category, and the art robots are not in my expertise, so I can't really maintain it, anyway. I only really care about not coining new terms like "animalian robot", and abandoning a clear structure just because there are not enough articles. --Jiuguang (talk) 02:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category renames 

message: Hey guys, Robot is at WP:GAR.  I'm working on the section Eastern and Western views at the moment.  I have Hornyak's Loving the machine: the art and science of Japanese robots, which is great on a Japanese perspective.  I'll start adding things from that.  If anyone has opinions on Chinese or other Asian perspectives, please feel free to jump in. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 19:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with WP:GAR 

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replies: text: Thanks SelectionBot.  Btw guys, selection criteria also included the average monthly hits, which means each wikiproject may have a few stinkers in the batch.  I'm going to record versions of our articles as soon as I've finished with them, but if you want to make changes, please do, and record the new version number for 0.7. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 23:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Robotics 

message: I will be more than happy to help improve quality on the 33 robotics articles that made the Version 0.7 cut, if someone will list them at the 0.7 copyediting requests page here. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 12:41, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You know, there is a lot of random pages in the project: why is Bill Gates, 3, and Ant within the 33 articles list? And Gundam as mid-importance? We should have a more selective list to submit, perhaps with the top-importance articles. --Jiuguang (talk) 13:07, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Articles can be added to or removed from the selection list.  There's a page to do this, but since those guys are going to be slammed for time when all the wikiprojects are notified today, just list here any articles you'd like to add or delete from the selection.  For instance, Ant is definitely going on the DVD since it's a Featured Article and tagged by more than one wikiproject. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 13:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  0.7 

message: 34 of 376 unassessed articles of WP:ROBO were autoassessed based on already done assessments by other projects on the same talk page per request of - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs by TinucherianBot. FYI --  Tinu Cherian  - 09:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! :D - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 13:16, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autoassessment for the Project 

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thread_title:  Discussion at [[Talk:Robot Fighting League]] 

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message: I learned only today that their are two separate Wikipedia articles on unmanned space vehicles:  Space probe and Robotic spacecraft.  I'm not sure I see the value of two articles, especially as currently described where their definitions seem to overlap (and be fuzzy). Are not all unmanned space vehicles robotic in the sense that they make complex operations (electronic, electical, mechanical, whatever) without human operators.  I'm wondering if some of you with more robtics expertise might be able to help us with the discussion.  So please drop by Talk:Robotic spacecraft or Talk:Space probe to weigh in with your thoughts.  N2e (talk) 19:18, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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thread_title:  What is the difference between a "Space probe" and a "Robotic spacecraft"? 

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thread_title:  [[Rough set]] 

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Proposed addition to people counter entry
Embedded Stereo Vision
Embedded Stereo Vision devices use two camera lenses in order to incorporate height data into the onboard intelligence algorithms and greatly increase system accuracy.
These devices are IP addressable and have the ability to capture and send counting, service, queueing, and various other metrics as well as record a video stream to validate system results. No additional on-site computer or data aggregation hardware is required. All image processing and behavioral analytics are performed on the camera and data is delivered at configurable time intervals, thereby making embedded stereo vision people counting a low bandwidth solution.
The incorporation of stereo data into the image processing and analytics allows the stereo camera to operate reliably and accurately in normal, high, low, and varying lighting conditions.
Advantages:
* Typical accuracy of 95% or higher.
* Can provide directional counts through a wide variety of entrance types and sizes.
* Can filter object based on height and object type (eliminate or include counting of carts and children)
* Lower total cost of ownership (no battery replacement, no additional hardware on-site, power and data provided over standard cat5 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet)
* Accurate in high or low volume environments.
* Accurate in both high and low light environments.
* Easy installation.
* Overhead mounting prevents tampering and blocked sensors.
* IP addressable and highly scaleable (embedded architecture eliminates the need for PCs or servers on-site).
* Mounting options are available from 8-40 feet.
* Operates indoors and outdoors.
* Supports additional metrics.
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thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Article alerts|Article alerts]] 

message: The Outline of robotics attempts to overview this subject, showing its structure while providing links to all the key topics on Wikipedia that make up the subject.
It's like a site map or table of contents to robotics on Wikipedia.
What's missing?
The Transhumanist  00:28, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's missing? 

message: I need help on Industrial Robot. It is under attack by some guy trying to advertise his company but his products do not conform to the ISO definition at the top of the article or the talk page. I keep deleting it, he keeps putting it back. Robotics1 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 00:00, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Industrial Robot 

message: *Wikipedia:Featured article review/Three Laws of Robotics/archive1
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thread_title:  FAR 

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message: FYI, :Category:CNC, CAD, and CAM has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 06:19, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: I've update my list of missing techology topics including its section related to robotics - Skysmith (talk) 12:14, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that's helpful. - Dank (push to talk) 12:40, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing robotics topics 

message: there should be an article on soccer robos, roxy: JELLO says HELLO (talk) 00:23, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  new topic 

message: There is a peer-reviewed version of Wikipedia at Scholarpedia.org, that only has a small number of articles, but maybe some of the content is useful to add to Wikipedia, such as the "Light-weight Robots" page? (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Light-weight_robots)
They are mainly AI articles but have a section on robotics: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Category:Robotics
What do you guys think?  Shervinemami (talk) 08:35, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We do not intervene with off-wiki projects.  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 21:02, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robotics articles at Scholarpedia.org 

message: Hi
Having had the article Three Laws of Robotics delisted from FA I am trying to start a little initiative to get it back up to FAC status.
Please can anyone who has a specific interest go to Work required and look at the problems listed and comment on any ideas they may have in the section Addressing the problems below it.
Any responses please place in the relevant section after the Proposed solution header
Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 02:58, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three Laws of Robotics 

message: Hi there,
I'm kindof newbie with Wikipedia, so apologies if I'm missing the place to say this :).
I'm expanding the article of ADL, which seems to be just a translation of the Wikipedia. If there is any tip on it, I would appreciate it. Kikoso (talk) 13:36, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ADL (Action Description Language) 

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thread_title:  Robotics articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release 

message: There is a relationship between pi and the alphabet. see Morale Builder 5 or Optimist 1.0  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.84.82 (talk) 22:10, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ? Chaosdruid (talk) 14:30, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pi 

message: Hi
I have finished the work on the article and have put it for peer review. Wikipedia:Peer_review/Three_Laws_of_Robotics/archive1
Chaosdruid (talk) 23:19, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Three Laws of Robotics]] up for peer review 

message: FYI, Project Aiko has been requested for deletion. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 09:44, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Aiko 

message: The article List of programs and machines in the Matrix series which is tagged as part of this WikiProject is nominated for deletion. If you feel like it kept or delete, please contribute here. − Jhenderson 777 20:48, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of programs and machines in the Matrix series 

message: A GA review of Three Laws of Robotics is taking place and has been put on hold for an initial seven days to allow work to take place to address concerns mainly around referencing and original research. SilkTork *YES! 23:06, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Three Laws of Robotics/GA1]] 

message: Hi all
I have made a start on the Robot Wars pages, the main issue is the confusing rounds sections.
I started by making a table and put it in the Storm 2 page
If anyone has time to take a look can they add tables to the relevant pages from :Category:Robot Wars competitors
Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 16:06, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robot wars competitors pages - add tables 

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message: I have amended a couple of the infoboxes on simple matters of plurality.
There is also the problem of the infoboxes being fairly high visibility items. Can you at least let us know which ones are being worked on and which are proposes for creation? It will help us keep track of exactly what is going on. Chaosdruid (talk) 12:16, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infoboxes 

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replies: text: Thanks for the info Chaosdruid (talk) 08:34, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Android 

message: Ive started a page on odour sensing and would really like your help on improving the article. Currently its just the name  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malithyapa (talk • contribs) 08:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Merged with other relevant articles and left as redirect (notes on talk page and users talk page) Chaosdruid (talk) 14:55, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odour Sensing 

message: Projet:Robotique/images libres  links to some free robotics images. Maybe most of them are already included here on the English Wikipedia within project articles. But if not, the collection may be of some interest. --Trevj (talk) 07:41, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks, I have looked at them and there are a couple of interest :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 15:56, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images linked to from Projet:Robotique 

message: Guys ! can you tell me how many Robots are on the international space station ? Come and read the International Space Station article, and you'll be none the wiser. Is this a good thing ?
They are pretty cool, some of them move like inchworms, around the station, repositioning themselves. Seriously, there is not even a section about it in the station structure. I can write one, but I need real editors to help me with this. Come on ! Penyulap talk 14:50, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussed on users talk pages, though will post here when completed. Chaosdruid (talk) 19:27, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Space Station 

message: Hi all
An AfD has been started to delete the European Robotics Research Network article. Chaosdruid (talk) 00:29, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion discussion for European Robotics Research Network 

message: hello what about we do a special page with the robotic point of view and our champions (lunar solar power
criswell,the automated factory growing,robotic village,lunar ring shimizu,robonaut,justin and the like]
:Note left on user page asking for more explanation Chaosdruid (talk) 14:56, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  sorry for the our, i mean from the robotic point o view--Beaucouplusneutre (talk) 15:30, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember a japaneese one, and there is the russian one ( lunar grunt and futures evolution) if i am correct, maybee there is more than that--Beaucouplusneutre (talk) 21:28, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  robotic colonization of the moon 

message: Hi all, 
After a little bit of work Speech generating device (part of your project for some time now) is now a good article nominee - if any of you guys would like to review it, (or even given any comments) that would be very cool indeed :) 
Failedwizard (talk) 13:08, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review for Speech generating device? 

message: Do Neural Network related articles also come under the scope of this project? --SMS  Talk 20:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Replied on users talk page Chaosdruid (talk) 01:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artificial Neural Networks 

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message: Just letting other robotics editors know that I just created an article on the recently-completed Robotic Refueling Mission demonstrating in-space propellant transfer on a series of satellite hardware that was deliberately designed to match existing commercial and government satellites that had not been designed for refueling operations.  You may also want to look at the robotic Space Infrastructure Servicing, a planned commercial mission for robotic servicing/refueling of approx. 12-15=year old satellites.  Conceivably, the SIS prospects just got a boost from the technology maturity demonstrated by the NASA demonstration mission.
Would appreciate other robotics-editor eyes on the article, as well as the potential addition of the article to the WP Robotics project.  (I did not add the project flag since I had just assessed the article for WP:WikiProject Spaceflight).  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 01:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robotic Refueling Mission 

message: Hi all,
It's not clear to me when Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models were pioneered. According to the following, Markov himself and subsequently Norbert Wiener hypothesized models of hierarchical sequences of states:
"The Russian mathematician Andrei Andreyevich Markov (1856 - 1922) built a mathematical theory of hierarchical sequences of states. The model was based on the possibility of traversing the states in one chain, and if that was successful, triggering a state in the next higher level in the hierarchy. Sound familiar?
Markov's model included probabilities of each state's successfully occurring. He went on to hypothesize a situation in which a system has such a hierarchy of linear sequences of states, but those are unable to be directly examined-- hence the name hidden Markov models. The lowest level of the hierarchy emits signals, which are all we are allowed to see. Markov provides sa mathematical technique to compute what the probabilities of each transition must be based on the observed output. The method was subsequently refined by Norbert Wiener in 1923. Wiener's refinement also provided a way to determine the connections in the Markov model; essentially any connection with too low a probability was considered not to exist. This is essentially how the human neocortex trims connections-- if they are rarely or never used, they are considered unlikely and are pruned away. In our case, "
Source: How to create a mind, Ray Kurzweil.
I have so far located Markov's first paper on chains, his 1907 "Extension of the limit theorems of probability theory to a sum of variables connected in a chain". I have yet not found his hierarchical models.
Does anyone know more about this? Kurzweil himself claims to have pioneered HHMMs in the 80s and 90s.
Thanks!
Robolobster
Robolobster (talk) 14:09, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models - origins and first implementations 

message: Greetings,
I am a newbie as a wiki editor, so am not sure who to ask for permission or where to place new articles on robotic research and development projects. I have complete copyright rights for data and images concerning these projects.
Thank you!
Victoria.Lee.Croasdell (talk) 05:07, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That depends on the projects concerned. They need to be written about in secondary sources, or at least be  a paper. What sort of things did you have in mind? Chaosdruid (talk) 06:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding new robotic research and development project articles 

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replies: text: Resolved by redirecting. Ansh666 05:15, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[Tactical Autonomous Combatant]] 

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thread_title:  One of your project's articles has been featured 

message: I have created Missing topics about robots and robotics - Skysmith (talk) 12:15, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  My missing topics pages 

message: Please see this CfD discussion.Comments welcome. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 12:51, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not archived for some reason, moving manually. (and already dealt with) Chaosdruid (talk) 15:50, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  CfD discussion: Unmanned aerial vehicles of China 

message: We don't seem to have an article on this high profile robot. -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 05:05, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone has built a stub -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Noted, and watching. Will give it a going over later tonight and assess. Chaosdruid (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

text: Will take a look this week. Chaosdruid (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Bluefin-21]]

message: The Rema 6000 might also be deserving of an article. -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 00:06, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Will take a look this week. Chaosdruid (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [[REMUS 6000]]

message: Dear editors:  Here is an old abandoned Afc submission that may be of interest to this project.  Is this a notable roboticist, and should the article be kept instead of being deleted as a stale draft?  —Anne Delong (talk) 22:16, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Answered on talk page. Chaosdruid (talk) 16:05, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Prahlad Vadakkepat]] 

message: I have requested an article for Wolf Robotics, which is a company I work for. I have gathered references and written a stub in my user space draft.   — Preceding undated comment added 20:30, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Noted, with thanks, the possible COI declaration. I will go over the article later tonight, and if it's ok with you make some suggestions/changes? Chaosdruid (talk) 16:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Since that request was made, another editor has moved the draft to article space (here). In the interest of making the article as encyclopedic as possible, changes are of course welcome. Hertzfeldt (talk) 16:38, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Article: Wolf Robotics 

message: Is this notable?  An IP has prodded this stub. Bearian (talk) 17:37, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Smart variables]] 

message: An RfC Should Tesla's birthplace be changed? has been created. Comments are welcome.- MrX 15:48, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC: Should [[Nikola Tesla|Nikola Tesla's]] birthplace be changed? 

message: Zero moment point needs attention. It's a confusing jumble of math which fails to explain a geometric concept. The subject is important for legged robotics. --John Nagle (talk) 17:08, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zero Moment Point needs attention 

message: I have nominated this at WP:Articles for deletion/Milton Bradley Playmate, because I can find no confirmation that it ever existed. Comments welcome. JohnCD (talk) 18:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Milton Bradley Playmate]] 

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thread_title:  One of your project's articles has been featured 

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message: This is a notice about :Category:Robotics articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 00:22, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert attention 

message: The new article, Autonomous spaceport drone ship, would benefit from another pair of eyes from someone in the robotics wikiproject.  I've reflected some robotics content in a link or two, and on the Talk page, but someone with more background in autonomous vehicle control would likely make the article better in short order.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 16:48, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autonomous spaceport drone ship