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
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
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.
and featuring aâ high-precision motion capture system a wireless communication network and custom software for executing estimation and control.
a script takes 3d models designed by the user in CAD software converts them into 3d curves
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.
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,
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.
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.
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:
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
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