Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday November 29 2003 (Pemiftagoin) NEW YORK (AP) — llV called the Segway Human Transporter hut the Pentagon eyes The researchers then loaded them up wiih cameras sensors communications gear and other gadgets two-wheel- Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a Segway robot that can navigate hallways and oien develop battlefield robots that think on their own and com- municate with troops The program is still in the ' doors research phase so the iincing sctmlers aren't expect-e- d to report to bool camp anytime soon self-ha- l- ' So far university Segway seeeeir rotoofts mraedfloiniedfl is drafting the scooter as part of a plan to ' researchers aimed with Penta- gon funding have pro-- " grainmcd Segway robots that can open doors avoid obsta- -' vies and chase sticcer balls — all without human control Researchers say potential applications fot the robots include performing search missions oh the batlleiield ' transporting injured soldiers to safety or following huinatis around while hauling their' ' gear 7 ’ At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Segways are being used us part of it ' lab's ongoing elforts to build robots that can play soccer with humans So far the robot cun chase an orange soccer ball and kick it The next goal is to teach the robot the rules of the game and get it to com-jiiunieate with human players '‘They will come together iidt asu master-slav- e relation- with human the ship telling the robot what to do" said computer science professor Manuclu Vcloso "The human and robin w ill be part of the ! ' AO photo Mellon Brett modified a University's Carnegie Segway Browning puts Human Transporter through its paces playing Segway Soccer on Nov 22 in Pittsburgh The Pentagon has drafted the scooters as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that could be effective scouts transport the wounded to safety or simply follow V- humans around while hauling their gear ' Dean Kiimen the Segway ’s inventor told The Associated Press he had no qualms about enlisting his brainchild into the military ' “You build a car and it can either be used as an atnbii- lance or it can drive your lamps around” he said “My personul reason for likingtthis program) is we would love to get more Segway s at tiniversi--' : lies The more we have our technology among the tech world piirtieularly the young geeks it could only help as” Any useful applications developed by universities' could help kickstart badly needed sales for the fledgling' : - ' were delivered to university and government research labs '' over the last few months The project is funded as part of a program in which the Pentagon is spending $26 million this year to develop software for autonomous systems Jan Walker a spokeswoman for the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said the idea is to let researchers concentrate on what the agency calls Mobile Autonomous Robot Software ' rather than the mode of traris- ' portalidh The Segway which'' uses gyroscopesto balance sciHter company When the seiHxterswere itself provides a common ' unveiled' with great fanfare in platform on which researchers 2001 Kamen’s supptvrters can swap open-sourpro-be millions would predicted grams sold transforming urban ' “One of the focuses of this ' program is to develop soft- transportation But in September when Company i&xued a wurc that would ullow the robotic system to learn so it voluntary recall to fix a prob- Jem that caused riders to fall ciitv better perceive its outside off when the batteries run low environment” Walker said if wiix disclosed that only The Segway can make ! ' much tighter turns than four-60(X) Segways had been sold ' Since theSegways retail forwheeled robotic vehicles cur- - ' $39)5urid $4495 depending ivntly used in the military and by researchers and its high-op the model new sales to the center of gravity meatis cam-crgovernment brany diher big imd sensors cani be placed' ' customer could “help lower the price and let more people several feel above the ground afford itjV said John Morrell' 7 7— a height more suitable for ' ' ' 1 vj chief development engineer: : interacting with humans ’ 'The sCiHiters were miHiified lor privately held Segway by software engineers alScg- -' way so they could be controlled by laptop computers y- - '' same task” University of Southern researchers are working on ways to gel the Segway to I'uli-fqrn- Six far the military program involves 15 Segways which ia act us a "mule" that follows humans around currying their gear The robotic Segway hauls as much as lot) pounds Another USC project' involves controlling the way the Segway pilches and bounces over rough terrain so it can curry sensitise cargo pci haps an injured human according to icad researcher liaurav Sukhatme A University of IVnnsy lvi- -' uia lab is getting a robot con" "" trolled Segway to communicate with an ' autonomous robotic blimp and small truck like vehicles sir they can work as a team to find a designated object in a ' certain geographic area The '' robots would navigate and communicate with each other autonomously but a human would oversee thexxhole net work "The hurnaii dpefatprean basically interrojtale the robots” said Jim Keller a project manager "If a robothas seen something it thinks is mieiesiing it will send an alert back I'lic human opera lor will gel iiioic images by bringing in othei ioIhiIs to look at the same Inc lion from whatesci then pi'ispcclixc IS" The rcscurclh-iHied the robots out at on Kenning in’ (icoigiu u few months ago Kul mostly they'xe Iven test ing them out at the unixcisi ty football stadium s Ihealhleles wiiocongre gale there "roll then eyes when they see us coming" Keller said On the Net: The Mobile Autonomous Robot Software proyram ' http’ww w darpa mil iproHre: ' ' ' gramsmars'rmphtm Stop Smoking Hart Association e-ui lnd ' 4T' GaxRffloaftofifvdhpQciimpQQmifbi1 Women's IK I Sweater Walker Pedometer i itofMvf tvMQ UNitfptdbMHlfW - ' l r ' f 't i Or Jprmp rfap hi V 330) (Sportline - ”Wtiw!: H'-'A- 7J w - v a Ski Packages $15900 ' vv ' vi-v- as -- nohthS HiACfcfl : & MXRv Bi Womens Ski Boot & Binding r- r 1 Dr'ikt 1Ml ON T?-: - : Another: l ureunged to meet my mother ut a coffee shiip and she craned to nml nwon v Continued from 9 the patio 1 was sitting right in front of her " You cun be the biggest 1 waved After a smile ‘ to cry drug addict in the world uhd Will in still this jike I Latter you they xpus hear leant when town: But if you're fat they I finally saw my dad und lie treat you like a leper" he said - suid uiier hugging me “I cun tome '‘Youknow whut I'm: ' put my arms all the way ' uround you” talking about righi?” I 1 broke the l(X)- On July just nodded The pmhlem is I wunted to pound murk I lost a I lolly- ' she-star- ' ted ' it wasn't just Holly- - wixod actress I joked Bi How? 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