Robots:
Why is it that I always discover my perfect birthday present right after my birthday. I'm talkin' bugs. They are reviewed in the current Linux Journal (no link ... I'm talking about this thing on paper ... current issue, August 2008, Issue 172). Well, there...
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Posted on July 9, 2008 12:26 PM • 1 Comments •
It gets really interesting just after 1 min. 30 sec....
Posted on June 17, 2008 2:08 PM • 2 Comments •
This camera pill is not larger than a candy. It can be swallowed by the patient. The doctor steers it through esophagus and stomach .... So, you swallow this "pill" and miniaturized scientists riding inside get to travel around inside your body like in...
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Posted on June 12, 2008 10:16 PM • 2 Comments •
In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to share information, these can work cooperatively communicating only with each other. Over the past five years Kristi Morgansen, a UW...
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Posted on June 10, 2008 9:17 AM • 3 Comments •
What? Consider this Abstract from the patent: A software design process includes three elements--an object/component driven element, a situation/scenario driven element, and an arbitrator/communicator element that is logically interposed and serves as an intermediary between the object/component driven and the situation/scenario driven elements. Through an...
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Posted on June 9, 2008 12:16 PM • 7 Comments •
Seeing something die because it gets old and systems fail can be sad. Even if it is a robot....
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Posted on June 3, 2008 8:34 AM • 25 Comments •
[hat tip: Geekologie]...
Posted on April 28, 2008 1:09 PM • 4 Comments •
Zooillogiz has a must read post on robotic jellyfish. Here's the video, but you must go read the post (and see another video) as well. Cool. But wait, there's more......
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Posted on April 24, 2008 9:01 PM • 1 Comments •
We're not sure what brand of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps -- a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles --...
Posted on April 14, 2008 11:17 PM • 0 Comments •
The Robots have been very quiet lately, have you noticed? This is probably because they have been chagrined by recent events only now being made public. Kevin Fahey, US Army program executive officer for ground forces ... said there had been chilling incidents in which...
Posted on April 13, 2008 8:40 PM • 1 Comments •
