Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Robot News 5 Apr 2012

US scientists launch personalised robot project

The Malaysian Insider -
What if consumers could choose a custom design for a household robot and take the robot home the next day? - Picture by Felixdesign/shutterstock.

 Look Out! There Are Robots All Around

NPR -
He did meet a robot comic, hotel check-in kiosks and a robot receptionist. DAVID BRANCACCIO, BYLINE: So Tank(ph), I'm looking for Room 2111.

Life-size robots 'Come Together' for Beatles impersonation using own ...

Daily Mail -
One of the band also sings, with specially created graphics and the song lyrics appearing on a screen normally used as the robot's 'face'. Each robot was programmed to play its part, and is not controlled by a human, and every sound in the video was ...

iRobot gears up for National Robotics Week

Boston.com -
Weymouth students check out Genghis, a robot designed as a model for space exploration. Photo courtesy of iRobot. By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff For iRobot Corp.

VIDEO: Robosquirrels vs. Rattlesnakes

Patch.com -
In the lab, robot squirrels have shown how squirrels signal to snakes with heat and tail flagging. By Patch Staff Robot squirrels from UC Davis are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on the interaction between ...

Robot Masters: MHS Earns Spot at Robotics Competition Championship

TownSquareBuzz.com -
The objective: maneuver their robot to score points by shooting basketballs through four hoops. On the path to success, not everything went according to plan.

New DARPA Grand Challange For More “Human Like” Robots

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WebProNews -
The challenge consists of several parts and the winning robot has to do repairs, drive a cart, and traverse tough terrain. The eventual goal is to be able to use robots for tasks that are too dangerous for humans such as a nuclear disaster or a fire.

Robots aren't just Sci-Fi

Waynesville Daily Guide -
That technology has come to today's military and Fort Leonard Wood has established a Robot University. Robot University or the Robotic Systems Project Office will make its home with the 1st Engineer Brigade where soldiers will be able to receive ...

US Navy develop creepy firefighting robot

Telegraph.co.uk -
Scientists from the US Naval Research Laboratory are working on a firefighting robot which they hope will tackle blazes on-board military ships.

BR robotics team stages comeback

Taunton Daily Gazette -
The TJ2 team struggled with its robot design this year, Calef said. The robot was “just too tall and cumbersome” to do what was asked of it.

Dancing Robot Has Two Legs and Fiberglass Springs

LiveScience.com -
Hurst is building a two-legged robot designed to move over uneven ground as skillfully as any human. The Oregon State University professor's current project, ATRIAS, has fiberglass springs - the same kind used in archery bows - that work as tendons do.

Time-lapse vid shows Qbo robot assembly

CNET -
Powered by an open-source Linux platform, Qbo is designed to be a communications robot that's part of our everyday environment.

Robot with Human Skeleton Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence

TIME -
It is an anthropomimetic robot which, apparently, means it “imitates not just the human form, but also the biological structures and functions that enable and constrain perception and action.

Titanic 3D Director James Cameron Mariana Trench Expedition Inspires DIY ...

Forbes -
I also find it profoundly game-changing for any do-it-yourself (DIY) underwater robot/vessel creator. We may not see the underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) inventor designing a craft of this shape any time soon, but we likely will see the ...

One More Thing: How to cause the robot apocalypse

TechRadar UK -
But we still shudder a little when a robot expert starts talking up flatpack robots and allowing people to manufacture their own fit-for-purpose automatons.

State-of-the-Art Murata Boy Robot to Visit Mouser Electronics

Interconnectionworld -
The amazing Murata Boy robot will visit Mouser Electronics on Thursday, April 5th. The famous, self-balancing robot stands at 19.5 inches tall, weighs 11 pounds, and rides a fully-functional bicycle.

Local university introduces dancing robot

VietNamNet Bridge -
VietNamNet Bridge - A Vietnamese university has combined with a private firm to manufacture a dancing robot, named Roohex. Roohex is the first version of a type of entertaining robots which are manufactured by the Mechanics-Electronics Faculty of the ...

Julie Newmar put her talents to good use as a robot on 'My Living Doll'

Kansas City Star -
By SUSAN KING LOS ANGELES - Two years before she became the object of young men's fantasies as Catwoman on the ABC series "Batman," Julie Newmar starred as a shapely robot named Rhoda on the 1964-65 CBS sitcom "My Living Doll.

Printable Home Robot in the Works

The Mark -
The idea is to allow people to go to a printing store and print their own origami robot to do their bidding. The project won't be ready for at least five years, but the team has already developed prototypes for a gripper and 6-legged robot that can ...

This Week in Co-Op: Late Night Robot Apocalypsin'

Co-Optimus.com -
Nuts rain down from the sky as the air is filled with bullets, rockets, grenades, and all sorts of robot body parts. It's incredibly more chaotic than normal mode, and markedly more difficult than the "Hard" setting.

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

AI Happenings (28/3/2012)

Artificial Intelligence? I'll Say. Why Computers Can't Joke
BusinessWeek
Dr. Fill's score was good enough to finish 141st out of 600 human contestants—near the low end of the range that its creator, the artificial intelligence expert Matthew Ginsberg, had predicted. Dr. Fill, Ginsberg told the New York Times, ...
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Author Ted Bell: Artificial Intelligence Could Evolve Into Evil Reality
NewsMax.com
Best-selling author Bell told Newsmax in an exclusive interview that he chose to focus “Phantom” on what could happen if artificial intelligence were used for malign purposes, in this case by an Iranian scientist. “I look out a few years and see what I ...
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How AI: Artificial Intelligence ends in a different, better universe
io9
There are any number of examples of movies that could use the personal canon treatment, but I'd like to nominate AI: Artificial Intelligence as a first film in need of revision. There are actually a lot of good aspects to Steven Spielberg's 2001 ...
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Artificial intelligence the villain in 'Phantom'
Rankin Ledger
Somewhere in Iran, a brilliant scientist has created the first artificial intelligence device. He's been testing its capabilities, as in, controlling other machines and killing people. The AI, or Perseus, as it calls itself, is ready to go solo and ...
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ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces Three Patent Portfolios for Auction Disclosing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The first portfolio is for artificial intelligence for autonomic monitoring and control of devices in a computerized network environment. It discloses techniques for collective interactions of autonomic entities, which includes transmitting ...
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David L. Waltz, Computer Science Pioneer, Dies at 68
New York Times
The 3-D research was seminal in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. Known as “constraint propagation,” the technique is now used in industry for solving problems like route scheduling, package routing and construction scheduling.
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