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Skynet Reaches Out
In its most recent outreach campaign, Skynet Research has issued a call for robotics designs and is offering a free Skynet Research Enhancement Module Model 101 for consumer robots.
Skynet Research is accepting designs in 2D formats in an effort to solicit ideas for its next generation of consumer robots.
Skynet Research believes every individual holds [...]
Robot’s Portfolio Performs Worse than Human’s
It seems that a robotic stock trader isn’t as good as a knowledgeable human trader. James Daw writes about how his robot’s portfolio lost 40% of its value while investors in the stocks tracked by the S&P/TSX composite of the Toronto Stock Exchange “only” lost 33%. Check out his article here.
3Jan2009 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Japanese ZMP Inc. Enters Autonomous Vehicle Space
The Japanese company ZMP Inc. has recently announced its intention to deliver a research tool called the ZMP Car Robotics Platform by April, 2009 at a meager cost of about $5.5K per unit. The platform is a complete 1/10th scale vehicle.
The platform is comprised of a stereoscopic camera, NEC Corp’s image processing board, WiFi module, [...]
AI Keeps Commerce Machine Humming
These guys are a lot more personable than industrial assembly-line robots. Combine their personality with their association with capitalism and you’ve got a robotic worker class that’s taken another step into the human routine. Read about them here.
26Dec2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Velodyne LIDAR HDL-64E demo
Bruce Hall, President of Velodyne LIDAR demonstrates the HDL-64E. The 64E is a ground breaking laser vision system that crushed the competition at the 2007 DARPA urban challenge. Today, Velodyne sells the 64E (list price $75,000) to organizations wishing to integrate 1″ accuracy GIS data at highway speeds.
31Oct2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
Stereoscopic Computer Vision Just got a Leg Up
When Stanford University won the DARPA Grand Challenge in ‘05 the team made clear their philosophy that autonomous navigation should be treated as a software problem. While other teams spent their resources on building custom hardware, Dr. Sebastian Thrun simply sent his Stanford team’s Volkswagen Touareg off to get converted to [...]
29Sep2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Three Questions with Sam Kherat, Caterpillar
At the recent National Instruments NI Week event, SciVestor caught up with Dr. Sam Kherat, manager of the Pittsburgh Automation Center for Caterpillar. Dr. Kherat talks about CATs vision of autonomous heavy vehicles, their focus on sensing technologies, and their partnership with NI.
28Sep2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
National Instruments shows Robot Partnerships
SciVestor took a tour of the Robotics Pavilion at National Instruments’ NI Week 2008. Anu Saha, NI marketing manager discusses academic and corporate partnerships that feature LabView and CompactRIO technologies.
2Sep2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
Join SciVestor at The Singularity Summit
Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
SAN JOSE, CA, August 29, 2008 – Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit [...]
Three Questions with Brad Heath - Virtex Assembly
Virtex Assembly is a high tech circuit board assembly firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founder and CEO Brad Heath sat down with SciVestor to discuss how Virtex is going to change the world, why Moore’s Law is driving automation gains, and why the business community cares about what Virtex is doing.
18Aug2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued