I don’t personally know a lot about the technology, but I just found a website that shows video of a jumping robot: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16190-video-jumping-rolling-robot-avoids-all-obstacles.html

Robots can do just about anything physical and jumping is no exception. I’m wondering if they can jump rope while controlling the rope too.

Yeah, I realized after I answered the question that I entirely missed the word “rope”, somehow. Sorry about that.

lol np

Were you watching the NFL game on FOX?

Because they had that animated robot thing that’s supposed to look like a football player jumping rope tonight.

Google is your friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJn0-A4v91c
And King Kizer did it once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaqiQEo-z0w&feature=related

@elcho Yea, Arizona for life :)

@Sakata

Yeah I have a great amount of respect for Kurt Warner.

@Ort – that’s not really rope skipping, the second one isn’t even a real rope, it just hangs in the air!

This is rope skipping :P.

I’m really impressed though, I wouldn’t have thought it possible yet.

@Vincentt: That’s it. I should have figured it would be an Omni-bot. Those things are gonna take over the world someday.

Heh, fear me, I’m studying Artificial Intelligence ;-)

@Vincentt: Yes! Nice one! Most of those bots are controlled remotely though, right? Is the artificial intelligence part able to handle the full thing yet? “If you find a piece of rope this length, and weight try jumping with it.”

It seems like most visions for a future world of any prosperity involves enslaving the labor of bots. Is that the consensus in the AI field as well?

@Ort: Yea, and there’ve been enough movies made over the last few decades about exactly that. I would assume that’s everyone’s general “vision of the future” and not just the people in the AI fields.

@Ort – heh, I started the study less than half a year ago :P

Anyway, I think the robot above was largely autonomous, otherwise it’d have reached right away for the rope, etc.

Most of the people in my study aren’t really trying to enslave the world. It makes for nice jokes though ;-)

No, I think most envision a world where we are largely assisted by robots, and perhaps become cyborgs. But mostly we’re not really focussing on robots, but on human-computer interaction. And what I personally find very interesting is the effect of emotions. It could very well be that we won’t manage to build intelligent computers without emotions. Also, it’s very likely that we’ll closely model them after nature’s intelligence and that emotions might emerge. Perhaps it will be revealed that humans are, inherently, Good, if the robots are too ;-)