<div dir="ltr"><div class="entry-thumbnail" style="margin-bottom:20px"><img width="720" height="380" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.dprg.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/KR01_robot-web.jpg?resize=720%2C380&ssl=1" class="gmail-attachment-post-thumbnail gmail-size-post-thumbnail gmail-wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; width: 769.891px; height: auto;"></div><h1 class="entry-title" style="color:rgb(59,59,59);font-size:20px;font-weight:500;line-height:1.35em"><strong>KR01 Robot at DPRG’s First Virtual Monthly Meeting – April 11th, 2020</strong></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="color:rgb(143,143,143);font-size:12px">Posted on <a href="https://www.dprg.org/kr01-robot-at-dprgs-first-virtual-monthly-meeting-april-11th-2020/" title="9:38 am" rel="bookmark" style="color:rgb(94,94,94);text-decoration-line:none">April 9, 2020</a> <span class="gmail-byline">by <span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard"><a class="gmail-url gmail-fn gmail-n" href="https://www.dprg.org/author/robie_robot/" title="View all posts by Robie_robot" rel="author" style="color:rgb(94,94,94);text-decoration-line:none">Robie_robot</a></span></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="zoom:1;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>Join us for a special online treat during our world-wide quarantine!</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">This month the New Zealand Personal Robotics Group (<a href="https://robots.org.nz/" style="color:rgb(36,140,200)">NZPRG</a>) and DPRG, bring you a world-wide event in the spirit of global cooperation. NZPRG member Murray Altheim will share his ongoing “KR01” robot build from his home base in New Zealand.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong>When:<br></strong>Saturday, <strong>March 11th at 1:00 PM</strong> (<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">This is an hour later than most DPRG monthly meetings.</span>)</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong>How to Join:</strong><br>Meeting ID: <a class="gmail-link" title="https://meet.google.com/snx-isac-zqt/" href="https://meet.google.com/snx-isac-zqt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(36,140,200)">https://meet.google.com/snx-isac-zqt/</a></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Phone Number:<br>(backup in case of trouble with computer audio, add a comment to this meetup if you need a phone number for non-US locations)<br>(‪US‬)‪+1 609-469-1745‬<br>PIN: ‪862 716 153#‬</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong>About the presentation:</strong><br>The KR01 project was initially inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CXReb7f0Eo&feature=emb_logo" style="color:rgb(36,140,200)">David Anderson’s YouTube video.</a>  Murray became a subsumption architecture convert after reading through Rodney Brooks’ papers. He decided to build a Behavior Based System (BBS) in Python.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Murray began the KR01 robot project with these specific goals:</p><ul style="list-style:square;margin:1em 0px"><li style="margin-left:1.5em">Learn Python.</li><li style="margin-left:1.5em">Play with new hardware.</li><li style="margin-left:1.5em">Investigate low-cost high functionality sensors and see what emergent behaviors could arise on behavior based systems.</li><li style="margin-left:1.5em">Learn how to build “complete creatures” rather than isolated cognitive simulators as described in the papers below:<br>1. Rodney A. Brooks, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory <a class="gmail-link" title="https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/how-to-build.pdf" href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/how-to-build.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(36,140,200)">https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/how-to-build.pdf</a><br>2. Logic-based subsumption architecture, Eyal Amir, Pedrito Maynard-Zhang, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 153, Issues 1–2, March 2004, Pages 167-237 <a class="gmail-link" title="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437020300170X" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437020300170X" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(36,140,200)">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437020300170X</a></li></ul><p style="margin:1em 0px 0px"><strong>Note: </strong> Extra time has been booked for this meeting, in case participants would like to continue chatting after the main presentation. We record a video of these sessions and post them on the DPRG YouTube channel. By joining the meeting, you’re giving consent to be included in the recording.</p></div></div>