Technologies
Breakthrough: Tiny Fingers that Pinch
The biggest challenge nanotechnology is the mass-production of nano stuff. One-offs can be made but mass production is required to produce enough to make the technology practical or cheap. In a recent breakthrough, Peter Bøggild and his colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark have created a gripper that could be used in nanoassembly. Previously, [...]
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Ingenious Device lets Robots See Over Walls
Imagine a little box just 4 inches tall squirting out a rigid mast 8 feet straight up! A configuration is available that will allow a larger unit that can lift 200lbs 20 feet. The unit is from GeoSystems Inc and is called a Situational Awareness Mast (SAM). Travis Deyle at Hizook brings several sources together [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 drive-by-wire using proven and [...]
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God’s Dice
Rodney Brooks had it right in his 1991 paper “Intelligence without Reason.” His approach to Artificial Intelligence is based an emergence of behaviors not explicitly programmed into a system. Instead, a hierarchy of discrete behaviors is organized in such a way that higher-level behaviors subsume the resources required by lower-priority behaviors when appropriate conditions are [...]
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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 [...]
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Touch Bionics a 2008 da Vinci Award winner
Touch Bionics, developer of the world’s first commercially available bionic hand, announced that the i-LIMB Hand has won a 2008 da Vinci Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The da Vinci Awards recognize the most innovative developments and research in adaptive and assistive technology. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society understands well the difficulties people [...]
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Jonas Lamis featured speaker at RoboDevelopment Conference
Robotics Trends has just announced the line up for the Robo Development Conference and Expo ’08, to be held November 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. SciVestor Executive Director, and RobotCentral contributor Jonas Lamis has been named as a Featured Speaker for the event. Details are available here. Intelligent Sensor Technologies 2010 to 2020: [...]
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Three Questions for Chetan Kapoor – Agile Planet
Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet. We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.
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