#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 printed 3d and installed 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.
Using 3d printing offers vast benefits to the project because the user can select any colour it easy to switch from a right hand to a left hand
#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
The images are analyzed by a computer and the robot works out which way to orient the tofu.
Designed from the ground upeach unit uses a single 32-bit 72 MHZ microcontroller to interface with all of the onboard sensors actuators and communication peripherals.
With this we developed our own network layer to handle inter-unit communication as well as algorithms for routing packets time synchronization information fusion etc. on a resource limited embedded system.
One of the nice things about using 3d printer technology is that the omni-wheels could be printed as a single piece without having to assemble any components.
and featuring aâ high-precision motion capture system a wireless communication network and custom software for executing estimation and control.
#New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3d curves instead of 2d layers Mataerial is a new 3d printing method that uses extrusion technology
While other 3d printing methods build up objects by successive 2d layering this process truly builds up objects in all three dimensions:
a script takes 3d models designed by the user in CAD software converts them into 3d curves
By combining these 3d curves a variety of shapes can be achieved that would be impossible with other 3d printing methods.
Rethink Robotics Baxterrethink Robotics##new Baxter robot is getting a software upgrade. Big deal? Actually it is.
Brooks vision was to have a hardware platform frequently enhanced with new software and capabilities#and it is happening as promised and on schedule.
Rethink recently launched an academic version of Baxter with a Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling users to train the robot and share their programs with other Baxter owners.
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.
and is among the first plastics processors to deploy a Baxter robot. It is being used for repetitive tasks like picking up parts off a conveyor
and can be controlled by an ios device, data-gathering could be done in a gaming context,
It can be controlled by smart devices such as the iphone or Android devices, which can be used send data over the internet.
The code for communicating with Parrot is open source. Methodology The question we faced experimentally was how to couple the real-world object to the virtual space in which the drone would be flying.
For example, if an ipad or ipod is connected to the drone Wifi, it cannot send its data.
as a personal mobile device for intravenous equipment at a hospital, or topped with a telepresence device and acting as a museum tour guide.
#Desktop PC-sized fully automatic genetic testing device The Genelead from Precision System Science (PSS) is a fully automatic genetic testing device that completely automates the genetic testing process that ordinarily would require manual intervention.
It is just about the same size as a computer so one of its features is being easily usable in any location.
Using an intuitive ipad interface, a doctor can visit a patient, and communicate with hospital staff and patients with a single click, regardless of their location.
electroencephalogram (EEG) headset hooked up to a PC running custom software. By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off;
The panel agreed on one thing: Without renewable energy, we cannot end poverty by 2030. enewable energy is the foundation of a modern economy,
"The actors are filmed against a green screen, and the background, created by the studio's graphic designers,
nor do their names appear on the screen.""They never state that they are the instructor,
The team uses Adobe Connect to capture the audio and the Powerpoint slides.""That's a fairly simple way to get something on the ground
"Most of the SMES we've worked with are comfortable creating voice over Powerpoint. That's an easy way for them to get their content out
The instructor would use his or her slides on a monitor as a form of teleprompter.
the monitor wasn't exactly in line with the camera, and student feedback could be harsh:"
#US ARMY Turns to Computer Software for Medic Training Technology already has pushed medical and emergency responder training well beyond the days of mock wounds and static mannequins.
New software designed for Army medical training allows personnel to see in real-time the effect of their treatments on the bodies of virtual patients and high-tech mannequins.
a new ARA software program funded in part by the Army intends to significantly advance that training via a downloadable hysiology enginethat allows medical personnel see how their actions affect every other aspect of their patient physiology.
And not only in a virtual world, but with high-tech mannequins, according to Jenn Carter, senior scientist and project manager for new program, called Biogears. et say a person is performing CPR on a mannequin,
what happening to the respiration rate, this is how the patient is responding to your actions. great deal of military medical training is conducted now using sophisticated gaming systems and virtual reality, with the trainee personnel n front of a laptop or with a mouse, keyboard or joystick,
and interacting with virtual patients in the computer, she said. With the new software, not only will they be able to train to perform various procedures,
but immediately see the affects actions and treatments have on the patient. The Defense Medical Research Development Program put $7 million up for the new software
which not only may be downloaded into Dod existing virtual reality and mannequin training system, but by the broader public because it is open source. ll the models we are creating can be downloaded for free by anyone to create immersive training,
Carter said. hat the Army is hoping is that this physiology engine becomes the standard for physiology simulations,
so that anybody in the future who creates a medical training game for the military can take and use Biogears in that.?
This software allows anyone in the military, Dod-wide, to take this as a building block for simulation
as open source, ore people can get into the ballgameto build simulation programs, he said e
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
and so do the black holes in their cores. This one though is really too big for its boots--it simply shouldn't be possible for it to be said so large
who still do most of their shopping on desktop despite spending an increasing portion of their Internet time on smartphones.
But because of the screen constraints and the way people typically use their smartphones, it's traditionally been hard to push mobile ads for anything other than branding purposes that is,
Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of
#Skype's Real-time Translator Now Open to All Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.
People no longer need to sign up to use a preview version of Skype Translator, which handles spoken English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin.
with missives written in one language arriving converted into a preferred language, according to Skype.""We are breaking down language barriers that have made historically it challenging for friends
"Yasmin Kahn of Skype said in a blog post. Skype Translator was made available as a free download at the Windows Store for computers
or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn. Skype Translator preview debuted late last year,
but was invitation-only to allow time and testing for refining the service.""Our goal for Skype Translator is to translate as many languages as possible on relevant platforms,
and to deliver the best speech translation experience to our more than 300 million connected Skype customers,
"Kahn said. Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
and also automatically translates when pointed at text items or signs s
#Artificial Octopus Arm Performs Surgery About 10 years ago, the Pentagon funded a science project to build an entire eight-armed artificial octopus,
and ensuring our software and sensors work as theye supposed to on this new vehicle."
there hasn been a simple, inexpensive and quick way to monitor water quality. But a team of entrepreneurs from Calgary, Canada, has developed a solution.
and then from there you can wirelessly monitor remote locations without needing to go there and physically take a sample yourself,
sends the electrical signal to a mobile phone or a server. The signal can be accessed using 3g, Wi-fi or a USB connection on a computer.
The scientists, who started working on FRED while undergraduates at the University of Calgary, have won several competitions for their device
and implanted two per mouse. The implant--which used immune cells as bait--also contained a scanner to detect the presence of trapped cells."
and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones. A team from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science are working toward that goal.
The authors used computer simulations to figure out what would happen if engineers removed a whopping 5 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
When electrons move through the basic parts of a computer chipogic circuits that manipulate data,
and electrical engineer Wolfram Pernice at the Karlsruhe Institute of technology in Germany, have hit on a solution to the disappearing memory problem using a material at the heart of rewritable CDS and DVDS.
and CDS and DVDS use this difference to store data. To read out the datatored as patterns of tiny spots with a crystalline
or amorphous order CD or DVD drive shines low-intensity laser light on a disk and tracks the way the light bounces off.
the resulting chips have the potential to run at 50 to 100 times the speed of today computer processors f
With computer software, the researchers translated the robot center of pressure to the platform motors,
Moving forward with 4-D printing Another active area of investigation for the lab is-D printing,
and the software firm Autodesk to print customizable smart materials. raditional smart materials are exciting,
After demonstrating the 4-D printing concept, the lab soon found itself pursuing a number of intriguing applications with several companies.
Tibbits posits. ou can actually transform the wing panels on the car so that when they meet moisture they change
acoustic panels are static, but the acoustics in the room are completely dynamic. Your acoustic panels could adapt to the noise levels in the room to help amplify the noise
or help dampen it. Commercializing collaborations Self-Assembly Lab researchers may have certain applications in mind as they develop new concepts such as 4-D printing.
But their first corporate partners may bring quite different ideas Tibbits says: heyl say, an we do it in sportswear?
#Silicon photonics meets the foundry Advances in microprocessors have transferred the computation bottleneck away from CPUS to better communications between components.
(I/O)- intensive applications such as server farms is required the energy consumption to transport bits of data around.
In computers, Kimerling explains, engineers design a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuit and can expect it to work.
He notes that IBM is creating such a kit for its semiconductor foundry in Burlington, Vermont.
says Rajeev Ram, professor of electrical engineering at MIT. His group develops energy-efficient photonics, nd the way we do that is to miniaturize the devices,
and his colleagues are now working to demonstrate full-scale multi-core computing with an entire computer that uses only photons to communicate with memory,
and to show that such a computer should be much more energy-efficient and offer potentially higher performance.
Ram lab aims to overcome major hurdles in integrating optical interconnection for microprocessors within existing manufacturing systems. typical microprocessor fab costs between 1 and 3 billion dollars,
Ram says. Making material progressover time, new materials and devices will provide far more powerful integration of photonics on silicon.
The software, dubbed Matriarch for aterials Architecture allows users to combine and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape.
The work suggests that engineers will be able to reach the next stage of materials design through fundamental control of a protein final assembled structure. atriarch could very well be the core of a new molecular design process,
Accessible as an open source Python library the program will ultimately be used as a tool for engineers to quickly discover new materials
Jagadeesan, writer of the majority of the software library, explained the code follows the mathematics very closely.
From these configurations, the program creates Protein Data Bank (PDB) files to be passed to molecular dynamics software.
To perform this study with existing software would have been nearly impossible and time-intensive, says the team.
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
The new system, described in the Journal of 3d printing and Additive Manufacturing, was developed by Neri Oxman, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab;
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
producing a finished product with little human intervention. In the present version, molten glass is loaded into a hopper in the top of the device after being gathered from a conventional glassblowing kiln.
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
#How wireless-ray visioncould power virtual reality, smart homes, and Hollywood A team of researchers at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has believed long that wireless signals like Wifi can be used to see things that are invisible to the naked eye.
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."
'When social media software firm Sprinklr unveiled its latest funding last month, it vaulted into the club of"unicorns,
which makes a business software collaboration tool, entered the group which includes well-known names like Uber
Preventing kinase over-activity The'Phosphosense'technology screens compounds for use in drugs and has produced a new way of detecting the activity of enzymes called kinases.
A software program compares both arcs to determine if the leg is the same length it was before the procedure.
The system used automated speech recognition software to produce"rough-draft"transcripts, displayed on a simple interface,
where automatic speech recognition software produces transcripts and captions, which are pushed then to the cloud. Then, any of the contracted editors can choose which transcripts to edit.
and involved the collaboration of chemists, cancer biologists, computer modeling experts, biochemists and biophysicists at KUOTABLY the labs of Xu, Jeffrey Aubé in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Jon Tunge in the Department of chemistry.
#Insights into potential substitutes for costly platinum in fuel cell catalysts Replacing inefficient and polluting combustion engines with fuel cells is not currently feasible
because the cells require platinum-based catalysts. The PNNL study shows how to create particles with a similar reactivity to platinum that replace some of the platinum with Earth-abundant metals.
It may be used to create alloy nanomaterials for solar cells, heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of chemical reactions, and energy storage devices."
"The researchers are now exploring different metal combinations with various platinum ratios to get the desired characteristics for fuel cell catalysts.
which computers are turned loose on huge data sets to look for patterns. To make machine-learning applications easier to build,
computer scientists have begun developing so-called probabilistic programming languages, which let researchers mix and match machine-learning techniques that have worked well in other contexts.
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June, MIT researchers will demonstrate that on some standard computer-vision tasks,
"By the standards of conventional computer programs, those"models"can seem absurdly vague. One of the tasks that the researchers investigate,
and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture,
Even though their computers were painfully slow by today's standards, the artificial intelligence pioneers saw that graphics programs would soon be able to synthesize realistic images by calculating the way in
Kulkarni and his colleagues considered four different problems in computer vision, each of which involves inferring the three-dimensional shape of an object from 2-D information.
Built into Picture are several different inference algorithms that have fared well on computer-vision tasks.
""Picture provides a general framework that aims to solve nearly all tasks in computer vision,
"It goes beyond image classificationhe most popular task in computer visionnd tries to answer one of the most fundamental questions in computer vision:
and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).
#Shape changing display could spell the end for the 2d graph Imagine your computer screen could change shape.
Imagine if that screen could spring to life at the touch of a fingertip, translating numbers and trends into shapes
Researchers have developed a 3d prototype display which brings data to life in just this way sounding the death knell for the two dimensional bar chart.
which translates data into a three dimensional display. The interactive grid of 100 moving columns enables people to understand
The 3d display is radically different to interacting with data on a flat screen. A month's sales figures for example spring to life
Lancaster hosts a world-leading Human computer interaction research lab, developing the kind of shape changing displays which could one day make it into our homes, offices and perhaps even our mobile phones.
But for these shape-changing displays to be effective, researchers and developers first need to understand how people interact with them.
This tactile platform allows us to use those inherent skills to examine datasets normally confined to flat 2d displays."
if every pixel on your screen could move? Imagine the possibilities. Our lab works to develop new devices that merge the physical and digital worlds
or underperforming panels is very lowust 0. 1%per year according to new data of 50,000 systems analyzed by the Energy department's National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL).
whether the panels are to be mounted directly on a roof or on open racks. Quality management of the manufacturing process.
Rigorous quality management will help assure that panels manufactured on one day of the month will be the same quality as those manufactured on any other day of the month.
and less than 1%each year had hardware problems. Inverter failures and fuse failures were reported more commonly than panel failure.
Despite hurricanes hail, shading, vandalism, and hookup delays, approximately 85%of all systems each year produced 90%or more of the electricity predicted,
The microfluidic chip was designed by Autocad software and manufactured from a widely used silicon-based organic polymer known as PDMS.
#Tablet for 2 waiting at an Olive Garden near you soon Olive Garden, owned by Florida's Darden Restaurants Inc,
. started using Ziosk tablets in some of its restaurants last year. The chain said Tuesday that locations using the devices have experienced faster dining times and increased tip percentages for wait staff.
and we're excited to give our guests the ability to customize their visit by leveraging the technology of Ziosk's tabletop tablets,"Dave George,
Tablets have made appearances in airports, where travelers can have delivered food to where they sit, but are limited still in the traditional restaurant scene.
Ziosk tablets are in use at Chili's restaurants and are in the process of launching nationwide at Red Robin.
so a computerized ATLAS hardware"trigger system"grabs the data, makes a fast evaluation, decides if it might hold something of interest to physicists,
"This trigger hardware system makes measurements but they are very crude, fast and primitive.""To further pare down the data,
a custom-designed software program culls even more data from each nanosecond grab, reducing 40 million events down to 200.
helped develop software to monitor the performance of the trigger systems'thousands of computer processors."
"The software program has to be accurate in deciding which 200 to keep. We must be very careful that it's the right 200 the 200 that might tell us more about the Higgs boson, for example.
"The ATLAS computers are part of CERN's computing center, which stores more than 30 petabytes of data from the LHC experiments every year, the equivalent of 1. 2 million Blu-ray discs.
"SMU's Maneframe supercomputer plays a key role in helping physicists from the Large hadron collider experiments.
One of the fastest academic supercomputers in the nation, it allows physicists at SMU and around the world to sift through the flood of data,
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