Synopsis: Domenii: Ict: Ict generale: Computer:

#Google vs The DMV: How To Test A Self-driving car In May 2012 Google's self-driving car underwent a classic American teenage ritual.

DIRTT is hoping to forestall these problems with the help of their Doom engine-based software named ICE.

The Doom engine is a computer program that can render 2-D blueprints into a 3-D space.

Because the engine is open-source DIRTT was able to adapt it for their own needs--for example ICE melts with other design softwares including Autocad.

When the panels arrive at their destination they're popped into pre-cut aluminum frames which will hold the wall panels upright in the finished building.

But it s not only the speed at which the walls are built that's helpful. Jenkins explains that some buildings such as hospitals may need to reconfigure their interior panels quickly to make way for another patient with different needs.

Not only that but they need to be sensitive to rapid technology changes as well. Hospitals are making decisions for

But DIRTT's videogame background is coming into play once again they are now exploring how the Oculus Rift

and other virtual reality viewing systems may integrate with the ICE software--to further simplify the design process

The headlight's onboard computer reacts to what it senses whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.

At the crown of the helmet a flexible panel that has a polycarbonate shell attaches with a living hinge.

Instead it puts together neurorobotics software and hardware that have been developed by several labs in recent years.

We're not predicting that this will have practical applications or society-changing implications any time soon.

The cap communicates wirelessly with a laptop that shows on its screen a white circle on a black background.

The emitter translates the message she wants to send into an obscure#five-bit binary system called Bacon's cipher which is more compact than the binary code#that computers use.

The emitter now has to enter that binary string into the laptop using her thoughts.

She does this by using her thoughts to move the white circle on-screen to different corners of the screen.

Upper right corner for 1 bottom right corner for 0.)This part of the process takes advantage of technology that several labs have developed to allow people with paralysis to control computer cursors or robot arms.

and autonomously so adding a computer copilot to a naval craft could help there too.

Why not leave all that work to a computer? Perhaps you could use this experimental app that works in Google glass.

The app is supposed to work entirely on Google glass'CPU so it doesn't need to send the images Glass records to the cloud.

A video demo of the software shows a prototype of the app on a laptop.

Usually the idea is that such algorithms could go into software for marketing departments (How is this new ad making viewers feel?

or into adaptive computer games (How is this level making players feel?.It's also a step toward loading the ability to read people's emotions into robots.

in addition to needing the software potential buyers have to be able to afford Google glass but perhaps

and reaches its $2 million goal before the end of the month. 08/29/13 A hangar module launches allowing backers to walk around inside their ships. 06/04/14 A dogfighting module releases that lets players battle the computer and other

to host custom servers. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science e

Most of the handsets run on hardened versions of Android that make privacy the default for app permissions and network connections.

###Free Android; ios coming late summerpros Apps enable#end-to-end encrypted calling and messaging.##Open-source code allows for shared fixes.

Con Your callers also need to have installed the apps for the encryption to work.####Free WINDOWS OS X Linux Orbot for Androidpros The preconfigured browser routes you through a worldwide network of proxy servers anonymizing IP numbers.

Con NSA views Tor usage as suspicious.####Free tails. boum. org/Pros Housed on a USB memory stick

or a DVD this Linux variant OS uses only anonymous Tor Internet connections and leaves no evidence of your session.#

#Con Some popular software packages won t run on Linux.####$40 hidecell. compros Storing your phone in a metal-lined bag will eliminate surveillance possibilities by blocking cell-tower signals along with your Wi-fi GPS and Bluetooth connections.

Con#Mom can t get through either.####This article originally appeared in the#September 2014 issue#of#Popular Science p

and in April 2013 the Mayo Clinic used a 3-D printer to create a customized artificial hip.

the software also allows for easier design changes. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science i

P. S. P. S. Popular Science Postscript: How can a process that produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, help reduce global warming?

#Squid Protein Could Help Brains'Talk'to Computers In the most advanced prosthetics--such as this crazy mind-controlled robotic arm--electronic hardware interfaces directly with nerves and muscles in the human body.

a laser beam is moved in a computer-controlled three-dimensional manner within the epoxy resin layer thus curing the resin locally.

This ranges for example from companies that physically manufacture robots and automation machinery to companies specialising in the types of software and technology that enable automation.

#A computer vision system for mining artistic influence When we look at an image we not only recognize object categories

In the past decade there have been impressive advances in developing computer vision algorithms for different object recognition-related problems including:

Although there has been some research on automated classification of paintings there is almost no research done on computer-based measuring

The contribution of our work 1234 is in exploring the problem of computer-automated suggestion of influences between artists a problem that has not previously been addressed in a general setting.

Every note played is memorized like lines of code in a computer program. Then to run your Wigl program you play a special NTERNOTE

or a computer for remote control Wigl interacts directly with the child and their instruments. Most children s entertainment is moving towards software mainly on tablets and

I believe that limits their creativity and understanding of what s possible. We want kids to think outside the tablet

and so we remove the screen in order to encourage direct interaction with Wigl. After extensive testing at a number of schools and children s museums over the past year and a half by hundreds of children and their parents Wigl is now ready for pre-orders!

Since winning the Crowd Pleaser award at Robohub s Robot Launch 2014 Odd I/O has teamed up with Indiegogo to bring Wigl to the public

and a ground landing (landing is a particularly dangerous time for hardware). The elevon must sustain an angle during flight meaning that the aerodynamic force acts on its surface another a common reason for failure in flying robots.

and spearheaded the Android operating system before that resigned fromâ Google and will start a tech incubator focused on hardware.

According to the NY Timesâ Mr. Rubin#s departure is part of a series of recent executive moves that seem to give Mr. Page more room to focus on the company#s longer-term bets#like robotics

Regarding James Kuffner who replaces Rubinâ The Wall street journal saidandy Rubin former leader of Google#s Android mobile businessâ oversaw a series of robotics acquisitions last year

In a memo on Friday Mr. Page said that Mr. Pichai#s empire#which already includes the Android

and Chrome products along with Google Apps like Google docs and Gmail#will now include Research Search Maps the social media network Google Plus along with Commerce.

which is essentially the ever-growing racks of servers and switches that keep all those products working.

Magic Leapas artificial intelligence software and emerging learning chips fuse into more speedy and capable pursuits the line between things robotic (which has a specific definition)

and AI-driven robotic activities not yet defined (like software bots) is coming into question. Hence the interest in whereâ Google is focusing.

Thus it was no surprise that Google participated in the recent $542 million B funding round for the start-up Magic Leap a Florida start-up thatâ claims to merge the physical and digital worlds with hardware

and software that surpasses existing virtual and augmented reality solutions. Â Other participants in the B fundingâ included Qualcommâ KPCB Andreessen Horowitz Obvious Ventures and Legendary Entertainment m

The rocket and general hardware is also at least partially covered and as stated on the press conference NASA

#Opensource 3d printed oppyhumanoid enables experimentation in robot design Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Â Poppy is a 3d printed open source humanoid designed by the Inria Flowers lab a French research facility

that creates computer and robotic models as tools for understanding developmental processes in humans. Â Inria Research director Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (who developed Poppy as a tool for studying the science of learning

and development) hopes that the open source and 3d printable aspects of the project will enable researchers to quickly print custom body parts and experiment with different robot morphologies in order to study their impact on behaviour and learning.

while other humanoid projects such asâ icubâ are also open source the 3d-printable aspect of Poppy is significant

 With 3d printing changing the body shape is easier. nother platform that is similar to Poppy in that it is both open source and 3d printed isâ Jimmy the Robot.

the 3d printing and open source aspects of the project are part of that vision. To facilitate collaboration

and experimentation they have created an open source dedicated webâ platformâ that combines hardware software and webtools.

Both hardware and software are open source. There is not one single Poppy humanoid robot but as many as there are users.

The two acquisitions are Dark blue Labsâ (whichâ is creating systems to understand natural languageâ that would allow computers to comprehend the meaning of sentences

#Japan holds first#robotics revolutioncouncil meeting This fall the Japanese government held its first meeting of a new panel focused on its goal of aâ#robotics revolution#a key item in the government#s

The panel is tasked with promotingâ measures to increaseâ the use of robots and related technologies in various fields extending out ofâ the manufacturing sector andâ into hotel distribution medical and elderly nursing-care services.

According toâ Prime minister Shinzo Abe who instigated the robot panel determiningâ the appropriate use of robots will be a key to solving these problems.

The panel chaired by Mitsubishi electric Corp. consultant Tamotsu Nomakuchi will work out a five-year plan to be presented by the end of 2014 with details on how they willâ achieve the numerical targets.

In our laboratory we develop various types of high-speed vision hardware and algorithms that can implement high-speed image processing with a sampling time from 10ms up to 1ms.

High-speed vision can provide control data at the same sampling rate as that of the servo controller used for the robot actuators.

and is equipped with computers for navigation and a satellite communication system. Three Wave Gliders have been deployed for this project.

This relegates the processor speaker and microphone to the user smartphone drastically cutting the cost of production.

I also the developer designer programmer and crazy guy behind the Hellospoon robot. I have been developing Hellospoon for the past year

#Open Brain-Computer Interface: An Interview with Conor Russomanno Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a rapidly growing field that offers huge potential for many applications such as medical grade BCIS to help people with sensory-motor disabilities.

Currently a number of researchers are developing more affordable BCI systems designed to address a wider range of neurotherapeutic applications.

and research developer of Openbci a low-cost open-source hardware platform that records the brain#s electrical signals and uses devices and software languages to make the data easily accessible.

Russomanno and cofounder Joel Murphy aim to accelerate the advancement of BCI through collaborative hardware and software development.

Another of Openbci#s exciting potentials is the fact that it is fully open source. Russomanno

In reality however in the current state mind controlled robots at least using Openbci translates to looking at a flashing screen

and helping him train for the All Star Games through a sequence of animated storybooks that play on a screen in his belly.

Jerry is built off of the android platform and has sewn 19 sensors throughout his fur. These sensors let children check Jerry glucose levels feed him foods give him insulin

Andrew Berkowitz Software engineer: Android developer hacker hustler and resident diabetes expert if our bears ever become sentient you#ll know whom to blame.

Joel Schwartz Hardware Engineer: Previouslyâ building rehabilitative toys for kids with cerebral palsy. Happiest in a machine shop with a well-made spreadsheet or fly fishing.

Brian Oley Software engineer: An acrobatic unicycling photographer and developer of mobile games and medical software.

A well balanced member of the team. If you liked this article you may also be interested in:

See all the latest robotics news on Robohub or sign up for our weekly newsletter o

#Has Dyson#s robotic dream become a reality? has cracked Dyson finally its 16-year mission to create a robot vacuum cleaner?

The company#s  teaser video hints at a new release which looks a lot like a rival for the best-selling Roomba

and would use computer vision to navigate a room. Imperial#s Professor Davison has spoken also about the importance of  location tracking:

In a great up-sum of why  published on Techcrunch computer scientists Rudina Seseri and Wan Li Zhu who both work for VC#s Fairhaven Capital explain why the conditions now are perfect.#

#In recent years#they say#we have seen accelerated levels of innovation in both software and hardware that are now driving new possibilities for consumer readiness and adoption of personal robotics.#

#This as happened on a number of levels: Proliferation of devices compute and bandwidth. Instead of requiring expensive custom onboard computing robots are now able to leverage hardware smartphones and cloud computing for processing and storage.

This has implications on both cost and availability of data for machine perception and learning.

Nagpal#s team overcame this challenge by implementing strategies that allowed robots to rely on their neighbours to cooperatively monitor for faults.

After years of research in this area it looks like we are finally reaching a tipping point where both hardware

#In order to take a leap forward in making our domestic robot industry a major industry it#s essential to expand robot demand based on the business service models of other industries with a secure core technology.

The software Edware is open source and compatible with Windows Mac and Linux. Programs download into the robot via the supplied Edcomm cable that plugs into the headphone jack of your computer.

But programming isn#t necessary to start using Edison as the robot has the ability to read special barcodes that activate preprogrammed features such as line-following and obstacle avoidance.

and DVD remote control which can be used to drive the robot by remote control. Two or more Edisons can communicate via infrared light

and has the hardware capabilities to organize into complex shapes with its neighbors due to accurate range and bearing.

however and omnidirectional motion using three motors has been thought to be only possible by carefully synchronizing all motors phases#something close to impossible with cheap hardware.

and above it the whole front panel is made of foam so the car is not only safe for its passengers but for pedestrians as well.

The team behind the Roombots have had to overcome a series of research challenges in terms of hardware and control.

and monitor health blood pressure or sugar levels for example. They also allow the persons caregivers to monitor their wellbeing remotely and to check for falls.

A robot moves around the home and allows family friends and carers to virtually visit the person.

Until recently Gazebo was only accessible on the desktop. Gzweb Gazebo web client allows visualization of simulations in a web browser.

The interface includes menus suitable for mobile devices and multi-touch interactions to navigate the 3d scene.

Mobile devices have been and will continue to be a big part of our lives. With Gzweb Mobile users can visualize simulations on mobile phones

and tablets and interact with the scene inserting shapes and moving models around. References: http://www. gazebosim. orggzweb wikirepositories:

& support public interest media-making through scholarships media fellowships and auctions. nd by public good they mean for example sneaking into purchasing participant registration for The People Bot at the highly popular Computer-Human-Interaction Conference

and locked-in syndrome to interact with the world around them by controlling a computer mouse with their mind.

Moving a mouse is something that most of us take for granted but an individual with locked-in syndrome that is fully awake and conscious has no other means of producing speech move limbs

Through a device implanted in the skull the Braingate device interfaces with a computer allowing the individual to interact with their environment.

but revolutionary hardware designed by engineers like Bacher have also been key. Bacher began working on the Braingate technology by conducting brain-machine interface research on nonhuman primates.

Or as Bacher describes it#basically having monkeys playing video games with their brains.##This research helped Bacher

Says Bacher#if we develop a piece of technology for someone with a spinal cord injury who is moving their head to control a computer there s no reason that can#t help someone

#Human computer interface technology is limited still largely to touch keyboard and mouse. The research conducted by Bacher

Says Bacher#clearly a mouse and a keyboard even today seems like an antiquated way to interact with technology.

We#ve seen developments like touch-screen technology and voice-control come along way but it#s still not mainstream.

Unfortunately there is no super-software that can be uploaded to the robot to make it become an instant medical expert.

Software may be upgraded in the future to allow R2 to move around the stations interior and perform routine maintenance tasks such as cleaning filters.

The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.

if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri

The user can control the music player simply by looking at a series of flickering boxes on a computer screen.

This process known as electroencephalography (EEG) records the brain responses and converts the brain activity into a series of computer commands.

As the user looks at the boxes on the screen the computer program is able to figure out the commands allowing the music player to be controlled without the need of any physical movement.

This particular brain-computer interface exploits one of these; the occulomotor nerve which is responsible for the eyeâ#movements.

This means that even an individual with complete body paralysis can still move their eyes over images on a screen.

This cutting age brain-computer interface system could lead the way for the development of similar user interfaces for tablets and smart phones.

Packbotâ#other attributes include a state-of-the-art GPS video image display system monitoring electronic compass temperature sensors.

The robot is manipulated with an integrated Pentium-based computer e

#Microsoft pays 5m CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research.

Over five years Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT research projects.

Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities. Microsoft has been investing in Swiss research for years

and now the US technology company is renewing its longstanding collaboration with EPFL and ETH Zurich.

Microsoft will provide one million Swiss francs per year in funding for IT-related research projects at the two universities over a period of five years.

The collaboration is a continuation of a project launched in 2008 that focused on embedded technology software solutions and prototypes.

The new collaboration will now broaden the areas of computer science and deepen the collaboration between the three partners.

The young computer scientist from ETH Zurich studies the interaction between people and computers. For his project he and Dr. Shahram Izadi from Microsoft Research are investigating how flying robots can work

and interact with people in active scenarios. Specifically they want to develop a platform that enables flying robots to do more than just recognise people

To do this they are combining thousands of energy-efficient micro-servers in a way that enables them to access the memories of the other servers with a minimal time delay.

The two computer scientists are working with Dr. Dushyanth Narayanan and other scientists from Microsoft Research in Cambridge to develop new applications for this system known as Scale-out NUMA A

#Robot tourism coming soon to Korea: Masan Robot Land project finally breaks ground With permission finally given to occupy lands that include an existing road

Determining the required hardware specs. Specs and hardware designgiven the required velocities and torques determined above it was clear that the momentum wheel motor

and gearbox would be a major challenge for creating the robot. Using the mathematical model allowed to systematically tackle this problem by allowing a quantitative analysis of the trade-offs between higher velocities

This mathematics-driven hardware design resulted in detailed specs for the robot core hardware components (momentum wheels motors gears

and batteries) and allowed a CAD design of the entire system. Part of this step was the design of a special brake to suddenly stop a momentum wheel to transfer its energy to the entire cube

After the workflow has been designed customer-specific hardware components would be installed 3d printed and on the standardized robot grippers.

once on site the robot would be connected to the machinery software through a brand-independent software system

The consortium aims to have the workflow process designed within the first year to have the software prototype tested for the first use case by the third year

#Google buys up robotics companies from DRC If youe recently wondered where all the roboticists were going the answer is to an unassuming complex in Palo alto. Google has backed Android developer Andy Rubin to acquire at least 7 major robotics

Other companies include Holomni makers of high tech wheels Bot&dolly and Autofuss the super cool robotics software companies behind the special effects in the film Gravity.

â##I feel with robotics itâ#a green fieldâ#he said. â##Weâ##re building hardware weâ##re building software.

Per trajectory this requires less than two microseconds on a modern laptop computer. The trajectory generator is used here to generate trajectories to hit a ball towards a target and determines:

and Blockly and can be programmed wirelessly from a device like an ipad. The robots are designed to be programmed by early readers

The Play-i team are parents who want to address the shortfall of computer scientists in an increasingly digital world. â##What makes Play-iâ#robots so unique and special is that they really connect with younger kids on an emotional level

â#â##Play-i gets how a developmentally appropriate introduction to programming can pave the way towards a lifelong interest and aptitude in computer scienceâ#saidâ Vibha Sazawal Lecturer and Visiting Research Scientist at the University

Nowadays theye used for applications that require extremely high precision such as mounting smartphone components and coating the glass panels in LCD TVS.?

if the timing is correct the braking energy of one axis can be used as energy for another in the same way as a regenerative braking system reducing energy usage. his system is used currently in the automotive chip-making printing and food industries.

and control tasks (with the exception of a microcontroller for bundling sensor data) are executed on a base station that runs the Robot Operating system.

Ethicon Endo-Surgery a Johnson & johnson subsidiary created SEDASYS a computer-assisted device that administers the prescription drug propofol into the blood stream via intravenous IV infusion.

#OAK, a Kinect-based active support system for the severely disabled OAK which stands for bservation and Access with Kinectis a software application for use by people with severe disabilities.

It has been developed by RCAST at the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Microsoft Japan and is available from assist

 Through theâ Open Hand Project an open source project with the goal of making robotic prosthetic hands more accessible to amputees aâ fully-functional prototypeâ has already been developed.

#Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots What can you do with 12 RC robots all slaved to the same joystick remote control?

Common sense might say you need 11 more remotes but our video demonstrates you can steer all the robots to any desired final position by using an algorithm we designed.

each time the joystick tells the robots to turn every robot turns a slightly different amount due to random wheel slip.

We can then either drive the robots around with a simple joystick or let a computer apply the control.

Regardless the commands are the same and consist merely of go forwards/backwards x seconds or turn left for 2 seconds.

The computer has an advantage over human players because it can precisely measure the position

< Back - Next >

Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011