Lee told Popular Science that an international panel helps us set up criteria for evaluation sites looking at risk facing the sites significance of the sites and technical benefits of the sites.
Wi-fi as you probably know from using it in your house for phones laptops and gaming systems in different rooms can.
and alerted the driver on a screen fixed to the clean knob-less dashboard that the limit was 25 mph.
We re creating a clone of the platform that enables election monitors to identify tweets related to intimidation bribery corruption or violence.
#The Rise Of Open source Hardware So in the summer of 2012 Petrone (then an engineer at a Portland startup) launched a site where flexible matrix boards
Almost immediately Tindie began attracting favorable attention from the indie hardware community #and then expanded from there.
Today around 600 inventors sell more than 3000 different hardware products which have shipped out to more than 80 countries around the world.
Just as Etsy became the go-to marketplace for craft creators Tindie has become the primary hub for hardware aficionados.
We fill the hardware side.##While Petrone achieved his goal of creating a marketplace for hardware projects Tindie also inadvertently made a second contribution to the hardware world:
it now stands as the largest collection of open-source hardware on the planet. Nothing on the site is patented
and the vast majority of sellers have their source code and documentation links available right there on the page Petrone says.
Open source has become very much a part of the brand and what people within the hardware world associate with us.#
#Part of the reason software has led the open source charge is that it has the advantage of being lightweight Petrone explains.
#Historically big companies have dominated hardware production for two simple reasons: manufacturing is both expensive and difficult.
Hardware requires physical objects which entail manufacturing costs and usually shipping. But a precipitous drop in prices#which some attribute to the rise of cell phones
which made components cheap#is helping to lower the barrier to open source entry for hardware as are crowdsourcing platforms such as Kickstarter.#
#For companies and makers the revenue model for open source hardware is still being worked out since a person could potentially exploit an open source platform and sell it for profit.
But as Arduino#a microcontroller for DIYERS and the most successful open source hardware project to date#shows people tend to buy the $30 original version rather than the $10 copycats.
Most people want to support those who are actually contributing and putting the sweat and time into the project Petrone says.
There is so much demand for the open source products sold on the site that the waiting list alone contains nearly half a million dollars worth of orders.
#I think open hardware will start coming into its own in the next ten years Petrone says.
Apple s not going to open source their products anytime soon but Tesla could.##This article was published originally in the October 2014 issue of Popular Science#with#the title The Etsy Of Hardware.
It has been expanded in this web version.#
#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.
#A Google glass App That Detects People's Emotions Sometimes people are hard to read. Why not leave all that work to a computer?
Perhaps you could use this experimental app that works in Google glass. Aim Glass's camera at a person's face
and the app reads the human's facial expression and tells you to what extent the person is feeling happy sad angry or surprised.
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
what's especially useful here is knowing that this kind of computing can be miniaturized to something as small and light as Google glass.
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.
#Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3d printing technology.
This technique is similar to a microscopic 3d printer: a laser beam is moved in a computer-controlled three-dimensional manner within the epoxy resin layer
thus curing the resin locally. Uncured areas can then be washed away with a solvent. This technique allowed the researchers to manufacture helical structures 60 micrometres in length and nine micrometres in diameter
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.
Additional focus mayâ includeâ virtual reality 3d imaging and augmented reality systems. Imagine that you were driving in China
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 printed a 3d 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.
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
but before 3d printing one could only study the ontrolbecause changingâ the haperequired a machine shop. Â 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.
When asked about Poppy possible limitations Sandini says ne has to consider that robots like Poppy are rather simple in terms of mobility andâ sensing
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.
The advances offered by 3d printing have already revolutionised design and industry. However only very little has been done to explore the benefits of 3d printing and its interaction with computer science in classrooms.
With our Poppy platform we are now offering schools and teachers an adequate tool to cultivate the creativity of students studying in fields such as mechanics computer sciences electronics and 3d printing.
Both hardware and software are open source. There is not one single Poppy humanoid robot but as many as there are users.
This makes it very attractive as it has grown from a purely technological tool to a real social platform a
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.
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#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 contralateral arrangements and using virtual reality and an avatar to allow the user to see real time limb positioning.
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
& Google glass exhibit at CHI (proceeds go to the CHI student travel grants). Rumor has it The People Bot is currently wandering around the Theorizing the Web conference in New york city.
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.
Bacher believes that technologies like Google glass Leap Motion Kinect and voice-control will continue to be refined
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.
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#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
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