Talk:i-Cybie

bias

The previous version of this article seemed extremely biased against Tiger electronics and it came across like a marketing brochure. It was written in a very informal tone that bogged down the explanation of what the iCybie is. Hopefully I have taken care of most of these issues, but the history is in desperate need of citations. I also removed copyrighted material.

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Previous revision expressed subjective comments that indicate a non-neutral perspective.

From old article:

Interestingly, I-cybie has surprisingly good directional hearing: In one mode, I-cybie will "startle" at a normal to loud sudden sound (a clap or sharp, quick sound) then walk in the direction the sound came from. This is a pretty advanced trick for a "toy" robot, especially one manufactured beginning in 1999-2000.

Only some people might find this uninteresting and therefore the observation has been removed. Also the observation "a pretty advanced trick" is purely an opinion.

The mechanical observations were generally incorrect and essentially irrelevant to the description of the robot.

From old article:

i-Cybie users have reported problems with the robot's legs, some coming loose & no longer working. At present the only known way to fix this problem is by replacing the leg, which only requires the user to open the robot, unplug the leg & replace it with a new one.

Replacing the leg is not necessarily correct as the problem of a loose leg has been associated with a broken gear external to the leg. Since some robots never experience broken gears and others do, it is hard to determine if gear breakage is the result of a fault or just mishandling.

From old article:

Although i-Cybie does possess a limited amount of artificial intelligence, programming is not easily modifiable by the end-user, and it is not capable of autonomous learning.

Since the term "Artificial Intelligence" is used as a marketing term for this catagory of robot, it is hard to say what is a "limited amount" unless it is compared to something. The claim that "programming is not easily modifiable" is misleading. I-Cybies were designed from the start to be programmed by inserting a programmable cartridge. The Downloader is used to program the cartridge. If one has a Downloader and a programmable cartridge plus a suitable program to load the cartridge, it is just a matter of pressing a mouse button. In comparison to Aibo, which uses a far more complex program, i-Cybie is easily programmed.

The claim that i-Cybie is "not capable of autonomous learning" is inaccurate.  The robot is programmed to gather information about its environment through its sensors in order to determine future behavior. That is autonomous learning.

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I have removed the i-Cybie site link, since it is dead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.253.189 (talk) 18:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)