New laws for responsible robotics may soon replace Asimov's robo guidelinesJuly 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways," said d David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University.
Meet Roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro And His Robot DoppelgängerJuly 21st, 2006 Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro created a robot clone of himself. His incredibly lifelike mechanical double, "Geminoid HI-1," sometimes takes his place in meetings and classes.
Japanese Scientists Build Breakthrough Brain-Machine InterfaceMay 24th, 2006 Honda scientists have created Brain Machine Interface that translate thoughts into electrical signals which can be used to control machinery. It doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or even extensive training - a major advance over past thought-controlled technologies.
Astronauts turn attention to robot arm, social networking, storage outside space stationJuly 21st, 2009 Space station astronauts use robot arm, go TwitterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts inside the international space station on Tuesday used robotic arms to move a storage pallet holding equipment for three experiments from the belly of the docked space shuttle Endeavour to the outside of the orbiting outpost's Japanese-made lab.
Researchers operate biomedical robots from different locations worldwide via InternetSeptember 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Experts from the University of Washington and SRI International have jointly developed a new software protocol, to standardize the way biomedical robots are managed over the Internet. Nine research teams from universities and research institutes around the world recently made a successful demonstration of biomedical robots operated from different locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia with the help of the 'Interoperable Telesurgical Protocol'.
Microsoft Ventures Into Robotics With Microsoft Robotics StudioJune 21st, 2006 Microsoft Robotics Studio aims to create common technological underpinnings for relatively fragmented robotics industry. It is intended for use with a wide range of robots, from those in factories to the growing number of consumer oriented robots.
US Soldiers Bond With iRobot's Bomb-Defusing RobotsMay 24th, 2006 U.S. soldiers in Iraq are giving nicknames (like Scooby-Doo) and forming emotional bonds with bomb-defusing robots. They have come to regard them as teammates, according to the Colin Angle, Founder & Chief Executive of iRobot Inc.
Firefox: Things to watch out for...November 15th, 2004 I have enumerated some benefits and things to watch out for in the latest Firefox release.
Flexible Artifical Skin to give Robots Human-like Sense of Touch and FeelAugust 15th, 2005 Researchers from University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch. The team manufactured a type of "skin" capable of sensing pressure and another capable of sensing temperature.
Free Open Source 3D (Game) Engine - Apocalyx: A ReviewJuly 29th, 2006 Apocalyx 3D engine includes features like rendering of sky boxes, cloud layers, lens flares, flat terrains and height fields even with reflections, infinite terrains, wavy surfaces, sprites, billboards, meshes with diffuse, gloss, environment and bump mapping, particles emitters, planar shadows , the loading of 3DS and OBJ meshes, the animation of MD2, MD3 and Cal3D models, the loading of BSP levels with collision detection and lightmaps, the support for OpenGL vertex and fragment programs and the support of the GLSL language for vertex and fragment shaders, the playback of MIDI and MP3 soundtracks, the spatialization of 3D sound, the capture of sound samples, the management of compressed data and a particle-based physics engine suitable for the simulation of flags, cloths and articulated, soft or rigid bodies. The engine also includes and provides easy access to libraries such as the ODE physics engine, the ColDet Collision Detector, the Cal3D Animation Library, the LUA scripting language to describe and control the scenes without any recompilation, the Tiny C compiler for fast compilation of C time-critical code and the C Scripting Language, the AngelScript Language and the SMALL language for fine control of bots' AI.
On Comment Guard - WordPress Comment Spam Prevention PluginJanuary 18th, 2007 Yesterday I talked about developing a comment spam prevention plugin with zero false positives. I am currently using it on all of our blogs.
Is the market recovering? Reports from NY, Washington, London and moreJune 4th, 2009 Business HighlightsFlat incomes raise doubts about economic recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Household income in the United States is essentially stagnant, raising doubts about whether consumers already hurt by job losses can sustain an economic recovery. The now-ended Cash for Clunkers program helped lift consumer spending last month and is expected to deliver a bigger boost in August.
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