Another post for our “Humans into Robots” research. . . EDITOR
Featured Image: Robot Human Face. Credit: Uli Benz Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. FOR ILLUSTRATION ONLY. (Fair Use)
From youtube uploaded by newscientistvideo
Published on Jul 5, 2013
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Fantasy films could soon be wowing us with lifelike CGI faces that are faithful down to individual skin cells
Featured Image: The robot Maria from the classic movie, “Metropolis”. SOURCE: Google. (Public-Domain).
From youtube uploaded by TheTechindia
Published on Mar 6, 2013
Video Name is = Robotics and Artificial Intelligence : How Robots Will Change Society In The Next Decade
Featured Image: Big beer. SOURCE: wpclipart.com (Public Domain)
From Science Daily
May 28, 2013 — A robot in Cornell’s Personal Robotics Lab has learned to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand, or more accurately, roll in and offer a helping claw.
Understanding when and where to pour a beer or knowing when to offer assistance opening a refrigerator door can be difficult for a robot because of the many variables it encounters while assessing the situation. A team from Cornell has created a solution. . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube uploaded by rss Anticipation on Mar 13, 2013
Human Activity Anticilation
Featured Image: ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda. Standing at 130 centimeters and weighing 54 kilograms, the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk on two feet in a manner resembling human locomotion at up to 6 km/h. ASIMO was created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan. CREDIT: Gnsin at Expo 2005, in Japan. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain).
From NooTrix
Most TED talks if not all are thought provoking. The one given by moral philosopher Peter Singer on effective altruism (see Video 1) at TED 2013 Longbeach (CA) is no exception. This talk is actually a call for action. We don’t need to be billionaires to help others around the world. We can either offer part of our time or our money. However, this emotion-driven reaction can be leveraged by using our brains to figure out the most effective way to use resources we have at hand.
What’s the connection with robotics? The answer to this question lies in another question: What can roboticists, do to change the world for the better? As a matter of fact, there are already people that use robots in projects that positively impacts our society or our planet. . . . Read Complete Report w/videos
Featured Image: Robot Topio CREDIT:Piotr-Siedlecki SOURCE publicdomainpictures.net (Public Domain)
From C NET by Tim Hornyak
EXCERPTS
“You wouldn’t want to meet this camouflaged humanoid in a dark alley. For the time being, it’s tethered to a treadmill.”
“With nothing on, it looks like The Terminator. But when it’s wearing this camouflage chemical suit and gas mask, you could mistake it for a real soldier.” . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube uploaded by BostonDynamics
Published on Apr 5, 2013
The PETMAN robot was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the DoD CBD program. It is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous environments. . . . From description posted with video.
Featured image: Scanning electron microscope image of an eye on a fruit fly. Image is a high magnification view of part of the eye. CREDIT: Dartmouth College. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (Public Domain)
From IEEE Spectrum By Jeremy Hsu Posted
Engineers make a tiny compound eye
New “insect eye” cameras could someday help flying drones see into every corner of a battlefield or give tiny medical scopes an all-around view inside the human body. A team of researchers from the United States has constructed such a camera, which offers an almost 180-degree field of view using hundreds of tiny lenses.
The centimeter-wide digital camera has 180 microlenses—roughly what fire ants or bark beetles have in their compound eyes—placed on a hemispherical array. Researchers hope their design will eventually lead to insect-eye cameras that exceed even nature’s blueprints, according to a report in the 2 May issue of the journal Nature. . . . Read Complete Report
Featured image: Robot Dancing. SOURCE: wpclipart.com (Public Domain)
From Robo Daily by Staff Writers
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Apr 18, 2013
Robot hands could gain a gentler touch with inexpensive tactile sensing technology utilizing widely available electronic chips, U.S. researchers say.
Engineers at Harvard University have developed a very inexpensive sensor for robotic hands sensitive enough to turn a brute machine into a dexterous manipulator, the school said in a release Thursday. . . Read Complete Report
Featured Image: Celebrating Year Of The Water Snake by MALIZ ONG. SOURCE: publicdomainpictures.net
From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica on Apr 28, 2013
Featured Image: Asteroid Belt. CREDIT: NASA
From youtube uploaded by CoconutScienceLab
Published on Apr 11, 2013
Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com – included in NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal is a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and tow it to a stable lunar orbit where astronauts can visit and explore it. Please rate and comment, thanks!
Credit: NASA.
Photo: Micro Air Vehicle. United States Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth-G.-Takada SOURCE Wikipedia (Public Domain)
From IEEE Spectrum
New systems could improve the vision of micro aerial vehicles
By RACHEL COURTLAND / APRIL 2013
Aerial robotics research has brought us flapping hummingbirds, seagulls,bumblebees, and dragonflies. But if these robots are to do anything more than bear a passing resemblance to their animal models, there is one thing they’ll definitely need: better vision.
In February, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, two teams presented new work (PDF) aimed at building better-performing and lower-power vision systems that would help aerial robots navigate and aid them in identifying objects. . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube updated by GlobalPrison
MAV’s -Micro Air Vehicles, Mini-Spy & Attack Drones
Published on Feb 21, 2013
The MAV project is designed for surveillence, possible targetting/laser tagging and possible attack/assassination of specific areas and individuals…
