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William Grey Walter (February 19, 1910 – May 6, 1977) was an American-born British neurophysiologist and robotician.
Walter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1910. His ancestry was German/British on his father's side, and American/British on his mother's side. He was brought to England in 1915, and educated at Westminster School and afterwards in King's College, Cambridge, in 1931. He failed to obtain a research fellowship in Cambridge and so turned to doing basic and applied neurophysiological research in hospitals, in London, from 1935 to 1939 and then at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol, from 1939 to 1970. He also carried out research work in the United States, in the Soviet Union and in various other places in Europe. He married twice, and had two sons from his first marriage and one from the second. According to his eldest son, Nicolas Walter, "he was politically on the left, a communist fellow-traveller before the Second World War and an anarchist sympathiser after it." Throughout his life he was a pioneer in the field of cybernetics. In 1970 he suffered a brain injury in a motor scooter accident. He died seven years later on May 6, 1977 without fully recovering.
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Dr. Grey Walter was a neurologist, robotics pioneer, and a bit of a mad scientist. Living in Bristol, England in 1949, without the aid of modern day computer processors, he built reactive, autonomous robots that could wander about and avoid obstacles. Each robot had two simulated neurons, sufficient for them to display complex behavior. Significantly, Walter's tortoises represent the first real world demonstration of artificial life. http://skitterbot.com
here is a video showing Grey Walter's Machina Speculatrix!
A LEGO NXT version of William Grey Walter's tortoise, possibly the world's first autonomous robot. Can you figure out how it works? More information on this robot, including building and programming instructions, can be found in our upcoming book, From Bricks To Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots. Timelapse black-and-white photographs and quotes in white text originated from an exhibit entitled "Accomplishments of an artifact", discovered by Holland (2003). Although unsourced, the quotes were very likely penned by Grey Walter. Music is drawn from ████████ ████████████, composed by █████ █████ and performed by ███ ████████. Non-redacted versions can be found on our website.
To purchase your very own, pre-made dreamachine, visit www.dreamachine.ca! The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain. Music- Bobby BeauSoleil & The Freedom Orchestra- Lucifer rising soundtrack www.smokegallery.com www.johnnysmoke.ca
Grey Walter's most famous work was his construction of some of the first electronic autonomous robots. He wanted to prove that rich connections between a small number of brain cells could give rise to very complex behaviors - essentially that the secret of how the brain worked lay in how it was wired up. His first robots, which he used to call Machina speculatrix and named Elmer and Elsie, were constructed between 1948 and 1949 and were often described as tortoises due to their shape and slow rate of movement - and because they 'taught us' about the secrets of organisation and life. The three-wheeled tortoise robots were capable of phototaxis, by which they could find their way to a recharging station when they ran low on battery power.
William Grey Walter William Grey Walter (February 19, 1910 – May 6, 1977) was an American-born British neurophysiologist and robotician. -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2vbH8TaqI
A LEGO version of William Grey Walter's tortoise, possibly the world's first autonomous robot. Can you figure out how it works? Timelapse black-and-white photographs and quotes in white text originated from an exhibit entitled "Accomplishments of an artifact", discovered by Holland (2003). Although unsourced, the quotes were very likely penned by Grey Walter. Music is drawn from Electric Counterpoint, composed by Steve Reich and performed by Pat Matheney.
Impossible Engineering | Thursdays at 9/8c The "Tortoise" was built by William Grey Walter in 1948 and used sensors for light and movement to form a simple nervous system. Full Episodes Streaming FREE on Science Channel GO: https://www.sciencechannelgo.com/impossible-engineering/ More of the Impossible! http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/impossible-engineering/ Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceChannel
A video on the worlds most advanced new Robot technology. A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.[2] Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to take on human form but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to how they look. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility (ASIMO) and TOSY's TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot (TOPIO) to industrial robots, medical operating robots, patent assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed swarm robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic nano ...
Dr. Grey Walter was a neurologist, robotics pioneer, and a bit of a mad scientist. Living in Bristol, England in 1949, without the aid of modern day computer processors, he built reactive, autonomous robots that could wander about and avoid obstacles. Each robot had two simulated neurons, sufficient for them to display complex behavior. Significantly, Walter's tortoises represent the first real world demonstration of artificial life. http://skitterbot.com
here is a video showing Grey Walter's Machina Speculatrix!
A LEGO NXT version of William Grey Walter's tortoise, possibly the world's first autonomous robot. Can you figure out how it works? More information on this robot, including building and programming instructions, can be found in our upcoming book, From Bricks To Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots. Timelapse black-and-white photographs and quotes in white text originated from an exhibit entitled "Accomplishments of an artifact", discovered by Holland (2003). Although unsourced, the quotes were very likely penned by Grey Walter. Music is drawn from ████████ ████████████, composed by █████ █████ and performed by ███ ████████. Non-redacted versions can be found on our website.
To purchase your very own, pre-made dreamachine, visit www.dreamachine.ca! The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain. Music- Bobby BeauSoleil & The Freedom Orchestra- Lucifer rising soundtrack www.smokegallery.com www.johnnysmoke.ca
Grey Walter's most famous work was his construction of some of the first electronic autonomous robots. He wanted to prove that rich connections between a small number of brain cells could give rise to very complex behaviors - essentially that the secret of how the brain worked lay in how it was wired up. His first robots, which he used to call Machina speculatrix and named Elmer and Elsie, were constructed between 1948 and 1949 and were often described as tortoises due to their shape and slow rate of movement - and because they 'taught us' about the secrets of organisation and life. The three-wheeled tortoise robots were capable of phototaxis, by which they could find their way to a recharging station when they ran low on battery power.
William Grey Walter William Grey Walter (February 19, 1910 – May 6, 1977) was an American-born British neurophysiologist and robotician. -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2vbH8TaqI
A LEGO version of William Grey Walter's tortoise, possibly the world's first autonomous robot. Can you figure out how it works? Timelapse black-and-white photographs and quotes in white text originated from an exhibit entitled "Accomplishments of an artifact", discovered by Holland (2003). Although unsourced, the quotes were very likely penned by Grey Walter. Music is drawn from Electric Counterpoint, composed by Steve Reich and performed by Pat Matheney.
Impossible Engineering | Thursdays at 9/8c The "Tortoise" was built by William Grey Walter in 1948 and used sensors for light and movement to form a simple nervous system. Full Episodes Streaming FREE on Science Channel GO: https://www.sciencechannelgo.com/impossible-engineering/ More of the Impossible! http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/impossible-engineering/ Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceChannel
A video on the worlds most advanced new Robot technology. A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.[2] Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to take on human form but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to how they look. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility (ASIMO) and TOSY's TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot (TOPIO) to industrial robots, medical operating robots, patent assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed swarm robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic nano ...
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