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Robots as Art: The Serene Beauty of LumiBots (Artificial Intelligence)
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Somewhere in a dark room in Germany, artificial "ants" demonstrate emergence by tracing one another's phosphorescent trails.
posted: 15/08/2010
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Making Smart Windows that Are Also Cheap (Artificial Intelligence)
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Windows that absorb or reflect light and heat at the flick of a switch could help cut heating and cooling bills. A company called Soladigm has developed methods for making these "electrochromic" windows cheaply, making them more viable for homes and office buildings.
posted: 15/08/2010
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Robot climbs walls (Artificial Intelligence)
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Wielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum, a small robot named ROCR ("rocker") scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds - the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Shape-shifting robots (Artificial Intelligence)
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By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot -- one that can turn into absolutely anything. The researchers have developed algorithms that, given a three-dimensional shape, can determine how to reproduce it by folding a sheet of semi-rigid material with a distinctive pattern of flexible creases. To test out their theories, they built a prototype that can automatically assume the shape of either an origami boat or a paper airplane when it receives different electrical signals. The researchers reported their results in the July 13 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Speech Recognition Systems Must Get Smarter, Professor Says (Artificial Intelligence)
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Those who loathe talking on the phone to automated speech recognition systems may take solace in the fact that scientists are working to make such systems more lifelike and less annoying to use.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Telenoid R1: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Newest and Strangest Android (Artificial Intelligence)
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Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro has just unveiled a new teleoperated android: a strange robotic creature called the Telenoid R1.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders (Artificial Intelligence)
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Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation's stock exchanges.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Team-working robots huddle together to boost comms (Artificial Intelligence)
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When you are in hostile territory, it pays to stick together - especially if you are a robot. Falling into line will be easier with an innovative communication system that combines the clout of robots' individual radio antennas, making sure they stay in touch with their headquarters.
posted: 01/08/2010
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'Welfare robots' to ease burden in greying Japan (Artificial Intelligence)
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Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly.
posted: 01/08/2010
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Japanese rescue-bot can sniff out disaster survivors (Artificial Intelligence)
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apanese emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cellphones in disaster zones.
posted: 01/08/2010
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