because Hellospoon is a smartphone app: This relegates the processor speaker and microphone to the user smartphone drastically cutting the cost of production.
If a robot is intended to improve people lives it shouldn be expensive right? Also unlike other mealtime assistants Hellospoon is meant to be a companion and not just a feeding machine.
Hellospoon Youtube channelhellospoon bloghellospoon Twitterplease support the Hellospoon robot campaignâ-Â inviting other people to support this development will be amazing to t
 Dyson#s mysterious video posted on Youtube (below) heralds a 4 september release. The only piece of information to accompany it reads:#
#Dyson is also planning a £250m expansion of one of its UK sites at Malmesbury
Instead of requiring expensive custom onboard computing robots are now able to leverage hardware smartphones and cloud computing for processing and storage.
To increase the range of a small UAV one idea is to pair it with an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that can carry it to a site of operation and transport heavier cargo.
by expanding cooperation with telecommunication. The 1st Vice-minister Kim Jae-hong Ministry of Trade Industry and Energy said
Sebastian Cagnon a French behavior architect at Aldebaran Robotics who blogs at About Robots recapped the following governmental programs.
Google#s automotive patent portfolio is relatively small at 35 families. Most of Google#s patents were published very recently in 2013 with the earliest being only in 2010.
The rate of publishing for Google shows clear increase so further patents should be anticipated. Â The report also shows collaboration within industry groups.
For example Google and Honda are contained very self in contrast to other automotive companies. Most of the patents in the UK dataset are in the field of autonomous vehicles includingâ road vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles.
Roboticsâ companies in the UK dataset have very small portfolios with the largest being Notetry (5â families)
The second worry for the project was that electromagnetic fields from cell phones carried by people in the stadium would block electronic signals in the exoskeleton
Google new purpose-built self driving car Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car
or brake pedals#and you can ride it strictly as a passenger which is probably a strange feeling but according to Google video not entirely unpleasant.
Google will make about a hundred prototypes and it looks like it a very serious effort. It is equipped with multiple sensors (a big LIDAR on its roof is probably doing most of the work)
Thanks to Google previous experience with self-driving cars one can expect very good performance in real environments;
other Google self-driving cars have completed hundreds of thousands miles with no major incidents. The car itself may look like a toy
This is a very clever move from Google that aspires to overcome the legal and ethical problems of who should be able to drive
Google will launch a small pilot program in California in the next couple of years. The prototypes released on public roads will have manual controls for obvious legal reasons
Read the full post in Google official blog here. It worth mentioning that similar concepts
but its main feature was the interior where similarly to Google car no manual controls were present
and often writes about r Robinon her blog (in Italian). In our ageing society many elderly people are in the same situation
#Gzweb for mobile platforms Gzweb Mobile from OSRF on Vimeo. During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF Louise Poubel made Gzweb work on mobile platforms by designing a mobile-friendly interface
and implementing lighter graphics. 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.
With Gzweb Mobile users can visualize simulations on mobile phones and tablets and interact with the scene inserting shapes and moving models around.
but like many people can afford to attend it looks like you can still bid for a much cheaper telepresence opportunity on ebay.
Bid on Ebay to attend the History of Wearables & 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.
Smart phones can provide the#brains#for assistive devices. Eye motion-capture technologies developed for paralyzed individuals open up new ways for the general public to interact with technology
This cutting age brain-computer interface system could lead the way for the development of similar user interfaces for tablets and smart phones.
#Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition Is Google getting a robot company? Or just another source of roboticists with the Nest acquisition that was announced today?
The small sampling of roboticists Iâ##ve spoken to who are employed at Google have shed little light on future plans
Perhaps Google is collecting libraries and IP instead in the same way that Wolfram is talking about owning the database of the internet of things.
Google is to buy Nest Labs Inc. for $3. 2 billion in cash. Nest launched in 2011 with a smart thermostat
and maintain a distinct brand identity but as a part of the Google stable. Forâ more information from Nestâ as to the transition.
Larry page CEO of Google said: â##Nestâ#founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family.
Theyâ##re already delivering amazing products you can buy right nowâ##thermostats that save energy
â##Weâ##re thrilled to join Google. With their support Nest will be placed even better to build simple thoughtful devices that make life easier at home
and that have a positive impact on the world. â#Colin Angle CEO of irobot described Google recent acquisitions as a logistics play around self driving vehicles
and that when Google solved the first mile/last mile problem irobot was planning on meeting them at the house door.
There are plenty more robotics companies left for Google to acquire but if I were looking it would be interesting to consider Unbounded and Otherlab.*
DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places eg medicines to remote sites.
 A set of predefined skills similar to Apps for smart phones would help speed the process.
#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
Weâ##re building systems so one team will be able to understand the whole stack. â#Google hasn announced yet
The vision is clearly to capitalize on the DARPA Grand Challenges as Google has done so thoroughly with the automobile/self driving challenge.
Google has purchased a number of teams and people involved in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge
#Play-i want to bring a robot to every child After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures many of us have been waiting for Play
Play-i are based a Silicon valley startup with a founding team from Amazon Google frog design and Apple;
Bo is a mobile multi ball robot whereas Yana is designed to be a storyteller. Both robots come with different skins
Wee considering a system that enables people to videoconference with a physician if theye detected anything abnormal.
Nowadays theye used for applications that require extremely high precision such as mounting smartphone components and coating the glass panels in LCD TVS.?
and weighing only 3g/m 2 are 30 times lighter than office paper. They also feature a bend radius of 5 microns meaning they can be scrunched up into a ball without breaking.
TED just posted an update on their blog about the demo here and we will link to the video of the talk as soon as it goes online.
and at Google annual flagship conference Google IO in San francisco. Still it takes a lot of time
and careful planning to recreate the set up at a new site and on this occasion they were planning a video shoot as well as a live audience.
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.
Because of the iphone computational constraints, we decided to save 5 subsequent images while the player is trying to dock
Finally, since some players may use 3g for sending their data we considered that the data should be as compact as possible.
Therefore, the data is compressed on board the iphone before being sent. The data from 5 textured images on average takes around 77 kb.
Parrot also promoted our app on their site. The news was picked soon up by BBC Technology
There was no message that showed the absence of an internet connection (solved in version 1. 2). At the same time
electroencephalogram (EEG) headset hooked up to a PC running custom software. By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off;
which were limited to two sites and were difficult to place accurately on the spinal cord. Drug delivery was via an intraperitoneal injection i e. an injection into the body cavity.
E-dura is implanted over the lumbosacral segments below the site of injury and engages with the#dormant#lumbar locomotor circuits.
and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm In August 2014 Google x announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon Prime Air.
however, Google scrapped the design, saying that it was difficult to control and didn perform well in high winds.
perhaps Google should not dismiss the tailsitter design too quickly for its next design iteration.
In his blog 99 Mind-blowing Ways the Digital economy Is Changing the Future of Business, Vivek Bapat revealed that 68%of consumers are interested in companies that bring social and environmental change.
and Syria has stopped temporarily receiving new recruits at its training sites. e continue to recruit
The Rubik's Cube. iphones. Snuggies. Then there are the things the world needs. The wheel.
"entomologist and science reporter Aaron Pomerantz wrote on his site last month after taking one to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest."
Users are submitting their findings at the Foldscope site, with investigations ranging from first-graders looking at banana seeds to detection of parasitic worms in fecal samples.
"he said in a Stanford blog post last year. Unfortunately, Foldscope isn't currently available,
and bionic hands that can be controlled through an iphone. The big benefit of Sanchez's approach is being able to use prostheses for people with spinal cord injuries,
#Compulsively checking Facebook will now include impulse shopping Facebook will soon start looking more and more like an online shopping mall.
The social network said Monday that it is adding a new mobile"shopping"tab where you can buy clothes, electronics and other items without ever leaving Facebook's confines.
For example, click on a shirt featured in a Target ad and the site will immediately direct to Target's shopping page where you can select the color
Like many of Facebook's most recent efforts, the goal is to cut down on slow loading speeds
and corral more user activity into the social network's streamlined walled garden rather than directing users off into the messy outside web.
Facebook is hoping that the smoother experience will make mobile shopping more attractive to web surfers,
who still do most of their shopping on desktop despite spending an increasing portion of their Internet time on smartphones.
"Facebook wrote in Monday's announcement.""Customers can experience slow load times and too many steps on the way to checkout.
"Facebook first began testing the new shopping features with a limited number of retailers back in July.
According to a company survey, nearly half of its 1. 5 billion users come to the site actively looking for products,
Mobile advertising is Facebook's fastest growing revenue area by far; last quarter it accounted for 76%of the social network's $3. 8 billion total ads revenue.
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,
to impress upon you a positive association with a particular company. Facebook has been fervently trying to change that with ads that place more emphasis on prodding users into taking action
whether it be buying a product, signing up for a company newsletter or downloading an app.
it's doing this by absorbing features that would've previously required loading a separate page for an advertiser website.
It's not the only social network trying to break into the shopping game. Rivals Twitter and Pinterest have launched also e-commerce platforms of their own
and Facebook-owned Instagram is also pushing its own version of"buy"buttons t
#Report: 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.
Now it looks like they'll take that battle to the skies as Walmart joins the online retailer in a quest to use a legion of drones for product deliveries and pickups.
Nepal's national emergency operation centre said on twitter, less than three weeks after a similar disaster killed more than 8, 000 people.
and avoid jamming the fragile cellphone network.""Please stay in open field, help us make free road,
do not make phone nw (network) busy. SMS is suggested, "said a message from the national police service's Twitter account.
Nepal's National Emergency Operation center tweeted:""Pray to Almighty: Keep all Nepalese Safe in this difficult period of time."
"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,
Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
#Google Self-driving cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
with our safety drivers aboard,"said project chief Chris Urmson in a blog post.""We've been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities,
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
In Google's home town of Mountain view, speeds will be limited to 40 kilometers (25 miles per hour "and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
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
The device could be used to test water near mining sites, water treatment plants or just about anywhere clean,
before settling in a new site, and are thus very hard to spot. The study, published in the journal Nature Communication, suggests that capturing CTCS would prevent their spread and help halt disease progression."
"Shea said by email.""The initial benefit is detection--catching the metastasis before it spreads widely throughout the body,
future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease,
For more details, be sure to check out Wookieepedia, the world best-named wiki fan site.
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.
However, these molecules can also cause collateral damage to healthy tissue around the infection site:
or site of damage in the structure of DNA, called 5-chlorocytosine (5clc) in the inflamed tissues of mice infected with the pathogen Helicobacter hepaticus.
the researchers first placed the 5clc lesion at a specific site within the genome of a bacterial virus. They then replicated the virus within the cell.
when triggered by infection, fires hypochlorous acid at the site, damaging cytosines in the DNA of the surrounding healthy tissue.
On a flat lattice, atoms can easily move around from site to site. However, in a tilted lattice, the atoms would have to work against gravity.
Ramos and his colleagues envision deploying HERMES to a disaster site, where the robot would explore the area,
That means these components can directly follow the spectacular successes of the optical fiber systems that run the Internet, cautions Lionel Kimerling,
Cpf1 cuts far away from the recognition site, meaning that even if the targeted gene becomes mutated at the cut site,
it can likely still be recut, allowing multiple opportunities for correct editing to occur. Fourth:
The Cpf1 system provides new flexibility in choosing target sites. Like Cas9, the Cpf1 complex must first attach to a short sequence known as a PAM,
As with earlier Cas9 tools, these groups will make this technology freely available for academic research via the Zhang lab page on the plasmid-sharing website Addgene, through
The Zhang lab also offers free online tools and resources for researchers through its website.
The emitted radiation is approximately 1/10,000 the amount given off by a standard cellphone.
In August the team presented Emerald to President Obama as part of the White house first annual Demo Day. n the same way that cellphones and Wifi routers have become indispensable parts
"Swantee told the BBC that"We have worked more than a year to make sure that everything works like a normal phone connection."
"Ringtone, voicemail, and quality of the conversation remains the same with the EE solution. EE is also promoting ease of adoptiono special app is needed for the service
Wifi Calling from EE uses the phone's normal dialer and contacts book to make calls,
The launch involves the Lumia 640 and Samsung galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. EE said, "More new and existing devices will be added to the Wifi Calling range in the coming weeks,
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."
Its mobile and fixed communications services are delivered to consumers, businesses, government and the wholesale market a
#Singapore Telecom to buy US cybersecurity firm for $810 mn Singapore Telecom (Singtel) said Wednesday it will buy almost all of US cybersecurity firm Trustwave for $810 million,
Southeast asia's biggest telecom firm by revenue said it will acquire a 98 percent equity interest in Trustwave under an agreement it signed with the Chicago-headquartered company.
and holds substantial stakes in mobile telecom firms in key Asian markets including India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
'When social media software firm Sprinklr unveiled its latest funding last month, it vaulted into the club of"unicorns,
The use of the term"unicorn"began with a blog from investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in late 2013,
"You have a frenzy of investors looking for the next Facebook. They saw the possibility of a return of 1,
said in a blog post that both investors and startups are pushing too hard, ignoring traditional standards of risk."
"In a running Twitter conversation on the subject, Danielle Morrill of the research firm Mattermark said"I've narrowed it down to 61 potential dead unicorns.
"Prominent equity investor Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape during the dot-com era, expressed similar concerns in a series of tweets last year, saying too many startups are"burning
Mark Cuban, an early dot-com entrepreneur, said on his blog that the current situation is"worse than the tech bubble of 2000"because of"angel"investors investing in apps
but this produced a Google and an ebay and a number of other standouts.""Peter Barris at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates said investment is flowing
"In a blog post, Barris said he sees unicorns transforming the way we live.""Perhaps there will even be a flameout
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
$11 billion The bulletin board-style social network confirmed in March a fresh investment round at a valuation of $11 billion,
The fast-growing social network founded in 2010 in San francisco has disclosed not the number of its users
and Time warner Cables well as many users of video-sharing websites. Today, 3play's system works much as it did at MIT,
Customers upload videos to 3play's site, where automatic speech recognition software produces transcripts and captions,
and how can we process thousands of files a day to scale up to meet the demands of the Internet?"
so your average Youtube uploader can learn if captioning is worth the cost. To do so, the company drew on third-party data on thousands of Youtube videos that showed significant increases in viewership with the addition of captions.
When given a video link the calculator crawls the user's channel to tally viewership of noncaptioned videos and, based on that data, estimates the boost in traffic and search-engine optimization,
tried to grow a Web-based company.""We had'Javascript for Dummies'books on our desks,"Johnson recalls."
"The scientist said the Hur-RNA binding site is like a long, narrow groove, not a well-defined pocket seen in other druggable proteins targeted by many current cancer therapies."
"The Hur protein grabs the'rope'r the RNAT a site called'ARE'on the rope.
and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).
which could one day make it into our homes, offices and perhaps even our mobile phones. The group, led by Dr Jason Alexander
such as a phone or a watch. Nayar notes that the image sensor could use a rechargeable battery and charge it via its harvesting capability:"
What the EU says Google is doing wrong The European union slapped Google Inc. with antitrust charges Wednesday,
saying it is abusing its dominance in Web search to promote its own products Here are the major allegations:
The EU says Google is unfairly favoring its own comparison-shopping service in general search results.
a coffee mug would find Google Shopping results for mugs displayed at the top of the search page,
The EU says part of the reason for competing sites'low rankings is applied that Google different parameters to comparison-shopping services,
The EU pointed out that a previous Google shopping site called Froogle did not use a favorable system
The current Google Shopping product which allegedly uses the favorable system, is experiencing higher growth.
Also under investigation is Google's smartphone operating system, Android. The EU is looking in whether the company is giving smartphone makers unfair incentives for preinstalling Google's applications,
such as the Chrome Web browser and Youtube. The EU is also continuing a formal investigation into concerns that Google copies rivals Web content and places undue restrictions on advertisers a
#Using composite material samples, NRL scientists predict aspects of F/A-18 performance The U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has built a robot to pull, bend,
and twist samples of the composite materials used to build F/A-18s and other aircraft.
and act as easily accessed landing sites for fluorescently labeled"readout probes"that are applied to the cells in subsequent rounds.
#E-commerce Players Betting Big on Offline Presence Many e-commerce players have started foraying into physical retail space
some e-tailers are setting up shops offline. According to property consultant JLL India, Pepperfry is the latest to go'hybrid'.
"A significant share of our customers still prefer to buy offline and consider online website as a research tool.
The bigger ticket items are bought generally offline.""Therefore, in the race to provide a complete solution,
such phenomenon of online players going offline should stay, "said Vikas Bhasin, CFO, Pine Labs, an integrated payment solutions company."
"A larger portion of the Indian society is dominated middle class. This clientele is very skeptical about what,
For this strong bastion of middle class milieu, offline models like retailer shops have mushroomed all over, "said R P Yadav, CMD, Genius Consultants.
and offline models of e-commerce, "said Dinesh Gulati, Director, Indiamart. According to Tripti Lochan, CEO of VML, a leading digital marketing agency,"pureplay online retail will continue to live as not every e-commerce player has need either the
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