me to setup my boundries else this thing might have me walk into a wall when visually
This keeps you from walking into the wall in your room. I wonder if the author of this article realizes that games are not real.
Mix it w/laser tag in a pre-built arena. Paint the environment however you want it to look to match the geometry of the playing field in reality.
v=-e8tsg4uit0) and we've finally got ourselves a holo-deck! Sweet! Amazing! I can't wait to see where the future takes this.
#Waggling Phallic Scanner 3-D-Maps The Tower Of Pisa In 20 Minutes The Zebedee created by Australia's national space agency is a 3-D scanner
one person holding the Zebedee was able to accurately 3-D map the entire Leaning Tower of Pisa in only 20 minutes!
one person holding the Zebedee was able to accurately 3-D map the entire Leaning Tower of Pisa in only 20 minutes!..
#This Insanely Complex 3-D Printed Room Will Make Your Jaw Drop This room conceived
computer algorithms designed the 3. 2-meter-tall 16-square-meter room which has a whopping 260 million(!)
Plus it looks incredible--much more like a real-life human-built room than any other 3-D printed structure albeit one that's half Roman temple half H r. Giger nightmare.
We think it's the world's first 3-D printed room Hansmeyer tells us in an email in the sense that it's fully structural
No nobody will be living in it--the structure's more art project than studio apartment. If you don't mind some art-speak this is the architects'explanation:
But hey maybe we can look forward to our own robot-designed sand castles one day.
if they were to line all walls and the ceiling within an enclosed room. Regardless of my curiosity I would imagine that this creation is quite a spectacle in person.
but hardly a room...it's a wall panel or at most a pair of wall panels. But a room it is not.
Playing Devil's advocate since 1978the only constant in the universe is change-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC-475 BCREALLY neat
Printing buildings our of unreinforced concrete is a dangerous idea. Our interface is like a 3d printer
You could print a MASSIVE heat exchanger to reclaim heat from waste water power plants your house...You like fresh air
Bond's solution is a heat exchanger that works by running cold liquid helium through an array of tubes with paper-thin metal walls.
This way the fuselage generates lift. Since the engine inlet is extremely sensitive to the direction of airflow at high mach numbers it is angled down 7 degrees
Besides there will be no external tank for debris to shed from and hit this vehicle. I read that they had a breakthrough in developing materials for the engines to enable them to survive the intense heat
I can see a Reaction engines/Rolls royce partnership (I think RR was involved originally in Skylonâ#predecessor project HOTOL) providing the engines a Boeing/Lockheed martin/Any other building the airframe EADS providing the avionics or any other subsystem.
The intent is to save energy by controlling the temperature of an individual person rather than an entire building a goal that anyone who's ever turned on a personal space heater in a frigid office building in July can get behind.
and fly off to prisons without hallways instead your cell is moved from place to place So basically humans are working for machines now as the AI will direct workers to areas that need maintenance.
when virtually every house is mapped. In this context to discover a geological feature of such scale is astonishing.
Cameras monitored the patients from their rooms allowing the researchers to determine how the data they got from the electrodes matched up with
and says the AP will recommend that the FAA lift or at least loosen its restrictions.
the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone
However if you're stargazing from your backyard with only your eyes to guide you you wouldn't be able to see these cooler smaller stars.#
#How To Make A Surface Shed Bugs Like Water Droplets Can I just coat all the walls of my apartment with this?
Maybe in the future your entire apartment building will shed pests like a slicker sheds rain. The researchers got their inspiration from plant parts that are naturally more difficult for insects to climb.
So Collis took on the gargantuan task of building open-access tools that convert the raw data from radar databases into formats that climate modelers can use.
Those segments bind the RNA in different locations lining up along it like Christmas lights along a roof
The hotels I go have large clean swimming pools. I never swim in other's sewage r
www. crownbees. com/beeactionthe power of the backyard is immense. With the protections afforded telecomms
which include transmission towers (cellular and digital television broadcasting) fluorescent lighting Wi-fi Power lines and certain appliances.
and designed and kept in the silos of universities Prakash says. He wants to bring them to the masses.
As if animated by the same mind the13 patrol boats all moved in unison their crewless decks painting a picture of
And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site
and building their first balsa-wood prototype high-altitude wind energy was still largely unknown. Altaeros has grown now to a 10-person operation
whose towers can overturn without substantial reinforcement. It solves a lot of the headaches that offshore developers have today in putting these big turbines out there says Glass the company's CEO and CTO.
of which have carved out space in the building's cavernous fabrication area. Glass tells me to try lifting the fin
and will need room to move as temperatures rise in coming decades. Importantly many corporations and indigenous groups are partnering on this effort along with governments and conservationists.
and the people who love them) from around the country and the world onto the streets of New york city just a couple days before the climate summit on Sunday September 21.
Essentially the EES is a bridge that bypasses the spinal cord injury. The technology has given already paralyzed rats
The new turning algorithm also helped the rats to overcome more complicated obstacles in the form of rodent-sized staircases
Because the frequency modulation helped the rats to take larger steps those rats had a much easier time walking up the staircases.
They climbed the staircases successfully in 99 out of 100 attempts whereas the rats who used the old technology tumbled against
and failed to pass the lower staircase (Aww.).According to the researchers the modulated signal may be more effective
but in the future hybrid robot teams like this one could venture into ruined buildings to save trapped humans.
#Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked A team of twenty students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands entered the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 a six-day solar race
Plenty of room for groceries and no need to sneak around in the dark of night to go shopping though the car does have headlights and strips of red LED taillights.
It s a maneuver reminiscent of climbing in and out of Nascar stock cars through the window:
Wi-fi as you probably know from using it in your house for phones laptops and gaming systems in different rooms can.
Stella s sensors picked up on the signal being transmitted by a nearby speed sign and alerted the driver on a screen fixed to the clean knob-less dashboard that the limit was 25 mph.
or The bridge has collapsed just. PS: In what way are used they? PM: On the Micromappers app volunteers classify and geolocate these calls for help.
Once we know what huts without roofs look like from a bird s-eye view we can run algorithms on photos to accelerate damage assessments.
and create a live data set for every aspect of a space including the electrical engineering millwork and piping.
Once assembled in the shop the walls are shipped flat by truck to the construction site.
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
Which is why DIRTT also offers modular walls that are flexible and can be interchanged like toy blocks.
Our clients should be able to repurpose our walls to reflect those changes. Despite the company's advancements in construction technology however it hasn t been able to design for the residential market just yet.
and a long barrow--a huge wooden building believed to have been used as a mortuary for bodies after defleshing.
It can sense upcoming street signs and shine more light onto them. And it can make raindrops
whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.
but the Japanese team members wanted to demonstrate they could harvest their product and feed it into the same machines silk factories use.
A silkworm that makes spider proteins could be a gentle little biological silk factory spinning out a super-strong product.
and knit the threads into cloth just like silk factories do. The researchers are now planning to try to raise their genetically engineered silkworms at commercial farms the Japan Times reports.
We're pushing beyond the traditional approach of building rigid robots where forces magnify around joints
#The $3500 GSMK Cryptophone s firewall even blocks snoops that can impersonate cell towers.####Free on any platformpros It allows you to query Google without accepting cookies
##$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.
It also means surgeons didn need t to use cement or screws to hold it in place as they do manufactured with traditionally implants;
the unmanned X-47b took off from the carrier's deck followed by a manned#F/A-18 Hornet.
Then the X-47b landed on the deck folded up its wings and an operator on the deck steered the drone aside
while#the Hornet landed on the same deck. It might be a simple concept but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.
It's#similar#to#the#challenge#of#making sure#driverless cars can safely avoid cars with human drivers
year) that mounts to the roof of Audi a4 and S4 sedans, and enables semi-autonomous driving on highways. 4) Honda has started using 3-D visualization technology co-developed with tech firm 3dx CITE for crash simulations.
According to Sharma, part of the funding will benefit the ongoing construction of a pilot housing project to accommodate 1000 labourers at first and up to 5000 workers over the next three years.
In order for a robot to be useful in our world it must traverse unpredictable obstacles including stairs.
The three-section waterproofed boxes are empty providing 450+sq. inches of free space for electronics along with open deck space for mounting payloads.
Hangar One the biggest and most colorful of the buildings on the site will be restored. Also Hangars Two and Three.
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
Both usually have room and payload to spare so they're used extensively for transporting experiments.
The Government will seek to improve (factory) Â productivity through the utilization of robot technology thereby improving the profitability of companies and helping to raise wages.
and a half from my bedroom proving that sometimes you don need a big robotics laboratory to start something great!
and would use computer vision to navigate a room. Imperial#s Professor Davison has spoken also about the importance of  location tracking:
and various hotel platforms as well asâ efficiently navigating throughout the property#including the elevator#with speedsâ up to 4 mph.
conducting robot research and development (R&d) and building comprehensive capabilities; expanding robot demand across all industries; constructing an open robot industry ecosystem;
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.
The Projector Droneâ that we have built in Melbourne Australia is one of my favorite in-house projects.
But the potential of robotics goes far beyond the factory: from helping nurses in hospitals to inspecting dangerous power plants and tedious farm work.
It is equipped with multiple sensors (a big LIDAR on its roof is probably doing most of the work)
#Transforming robots to transform your room The word#robot#conjures up many different things to many people
Using connector ports embedded in the floor walls and ceiling Roombots can crawl and climb on any surface meaning that furniture does need not to be connected only to the floor
or stick to the wall. Â As it may not always be embed possible to ports everywhere in the room the Roombots have also been designed to be able to#walk#using an oscillating motion controlled by a network of coupled oscillators in the modules to allow them to travel across a room.
and technical challenges such as compensating unwanted bending in the mechanical structure (related to building larger complex 3d structures) developing the best-suited algorithms for reconfiguration
Until recently Gazebo was only accessible on the desktop. Gzweb Gazebo web client allows visualization of simulations in a web browser.
Louise implemented the graphics using Webgl. The interface includes menus suitable for mobile devices and multi-touch interactions to navigate the 3d scene.
#Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting Keystone Technology LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories that uses LED lighting instead of sunlight.
On the other hand plants that grow upwards can be planted with smaller intervals so a greater number of stalks can be cultivated. his plant factory itself has been here for over 20 years
and green lighting the produce displayed at a plant factory exhibition in July 2010 was our company first ever. ommercially available
since 2010 this system has been installed in various factories offices and eateries nationwide such as by a leading eating establishment that has installed 48 units in its processing factory in Kanagawa Prefecture.
As workers in Japan agricultural industry age it is becoming more difficult to obtain safe and delicious vegetables through traditional farming techniques.
The botâ#inbuilt flippers allow it 360 degrees of rotation enabling it to negotiate rough terrain and even obstacles like logs rocks rubble and stairs.
Its robust body can survive a fall from a two meter height to a concrete surface being flung through a window and falling downstairs.
and condominiums is expected to be complete by the end of 2018. The Masan park was scheduled originally to open in January of 2014.
and that when Google solved the first mile/last mile problem irobot was planning on meeting them at the house door.
#Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests â#7. 9m to make robotics affordable for SMES Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive leasable
and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems
Factory-in-a-Day aims to develop a system that can be purposed easily re for new product lines  by reducing the system integration time to a single day the project hopes to minimize investment risk for SMES.
when it comes to investing in novel delivery systems their $775 million investment last year in Kiva Systems brought large-scale automation to their warehouse floors in an effort to improve efficiency.
Check out this new video by Mark Mueller out of Raffaello Dndrea Flying Machine Arena at ETH Zurich
and note that Dndrea is the tech wizard behind Kiva robotic warehouse##the video shows a novel fail safe algorithm that allows an unmanned aerial vehicle to recover
and the power of machine learning The team at the ETH Flying Machine Arena has released three new videos demonstrating quadrotors building tensile structures tossing a ball back and forth
Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.
From now on we think it will be extended to purposes apart from factory automation such as healthcare. c
#Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry,
and ZHDK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of conducting visual inspections of ship ballasts.
Ballast inspection#which involves navigating hard-to-reach spots with no line of sight often in the presence of intense heat humidity
and other awkward obstacles found inside ship ballast is relatively compact and does not require any cables for power or communication and thus offers significant mobility improvements over other robotic ship inspection prototypes.
This is especially true for a ship#s ballast tanks which are filled with seawater to compensate for weight changes as cargo is loaded and unloaded.
and stiffeners separated by bulkheads ballast tanks form much of a ship#s supporting structure. The surface of ballast tanks is subject to saltwater exposure
and algae accumulation and as a result must be inspected for damage every five years. A standard visual inspection which can only be conducted with the ship in dry-dock after about a two-day venting period serves as a kind of triage for determining
Ballast inspection is therefore an ideal task for robots but the inside of the ballast
As part of a round-the-year continuous inspection the ship owner decides to use a four-day cruise to inspect part of the ballast tank.
The prototype uses magnetic wheels to crawl along the metal ballast surface; SIR is controlled by a human inspector via wireless transmitter
while the other two illuminate the ground in a flat angle so as to make bumps and small edges more visible thanks to the longer shadow they cast on the ground.
They are just 2 microns thick just 1/5 that of kitchen wrap and weighing only 3g/m 2 are 30 times lighter than office paper.
because you can fabricate high performance devices in a flat state and then just transfer them over to a stretchable substrate
which was easy to fabricate in-house and it provided sufficient thrust for the purposes of lift
when flying over a flat surface. We have designed each unit with magnetic interfaces located along each of its six sides.
Another gets two of its propellers cut off yet still easily flies across the arena. Â t looks like magic!
and that was just to get to the point where they could do the demos in-house.
and started setting up almost right away inâ a dedicated room where the talk was filmed and where all their demonstrations will take place throughout the week.
Check out the pages of ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena team and more Robohub articles on how quadrocopters learn acrobatic maneuvers cooperate to throw
Markus Waibel works with Raff Dndrea and the Flying Machine Arena team at ETH Zurich Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.
and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to including floors walls and ceilings without the need for additional support structures.
#Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls The Airburr a lightweight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my Phd lab) at EPFL was designed to fly in cluttered environments.
Just like you might trail your hand along a wall to find your way in the dark the robot can bounce of walls
or sticky substances to climb up walls geckos use Van der waals forces between the tip of each hair
Just the other day Rethink upgraded their operating system to V1. 1 to make it easier to integrate existing factory machine synchronization
###Once purchased our users can expect a steady stream of software upgrades giving them access to all the new features on the latest robots to leave the factory.
Features Comparisona Couple of Examples of How These Robots Are Being Usedat a Johnson & johnson factory in Greece a UR5 is used on a production line where it performs repetitive pick
We think that would enable genetically modified foods to be tested while still in the warehouse. i
#Parrot AR. Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.
factory environments isn easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to navigate.
surrounding the drone body they keep the distance of the Drone from big objects like a Wall or a pile of Big Boxes.
and then walking through a disaster zone (e g. a damaged building) to locate victims so that human rescue teams can concentrate their efforts where they are needed,
resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design. Compared to other fixed-wing,
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower
#Biologist creates'self-healing'concrete No matter how carefully it is mixed or reinforced, all concrete eventually cracks,
"The problem with cracks in concrete is leakage, "explains professor Henk Jonkers, of Delft University of Technology, in The netherlands."
water comes through--in your basements, in a parking garage. Secondly, if this water gets to the steel reinforcements--in concrete we have all these steel rebars
--if they corrode, the structure collapses.""But Jonkers has come up with an entirely new way of giving concrete a longer life."
"We have invented bioconcrete--that's concrete that heals itself using bacteria, "he says. The bioconcrete is mixed just like regular concrete,
but with an extra ingredient--the"healing agent.""It remains intact during mixing, only dissolving and becoming active
if the concrete cracks and water gets in. Jonkers, a microbiologist, began working on it in 2006,
"You need bacteria that can survive the harsh environment of concrete, "says Jonkers.""It's a rocklike, stonelike material, very dry."
"The next challenge was not only to have the bacteria active in concrete, but also to make them produce repair material for the concrete--and that is limestone,
"Jonkers explains. In order to produce limestone the bacilli need a food source. Sugar was one option,
When cracks eventually begin to form in the concrete, water enters and open the capsules.
Now Jonkers hopes his concrete could be the start of a new age of biological buildings."
Walmart could start using drones to start delivering things to your house Amazon and Walmart have been jockeying for position in the battle to be the number one U s. retailer.
The application would allow Walmart to use drones at its warehouses and around customershomes and the reports suggests the giant retailer is ready to start flying drones as soon as the FAA settles on its new rules for commercial drone use.
Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of
and officials said it caused buildings to collapse in Chinese-controlled Tibet. A second tremor of 6. 3 magnitude struck around half an hour later,
four people have been killed due to collapsed buildings,"Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International organization for Migration, told AFP.
I ran out of my house and barely escaped. This one felt just like that one.
residents were terrified that buildings which were damaged already badly could come crashing down. Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International airport, the main entry point for flights bringing in international aid since the April quake, was closed anew Tuesday as a precaution.
People could be seen frantically calling their families as medical attendants rushed to set up tents in the parking lot.
said she had rushed out onto the street after grabbing her eight-year-old son and 12 year-old daughter."
"The quake was also felt some 1, 000 kilometers away in the Indian capital New delhi where buildings shook and office workers evacuated.
including Bihar where television footage showed residents gathering on the streets and goods having toppled over in shop windows.
A Chinese official at the Tibet regional seismological bureau said there had been reports of damage but no casualties."
"According to local government, some houses damaged by the previous earthquake collapsed. Since residents were transferred to safe areas last time
and are still living in tents, no casualties have been reported so far.""While nearly all of those killed by the April 25 quake were in Nepal,
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