From: Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 3:17 AM To: Ben Goertzel Cc: jeffrey epstein 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: EFTA_R1_00058050 EFTA01756518