Oct 29, 2015
Speeding up the work of measurements
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
News to streamline the work measurements. smile
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Oct 29, 2015
Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: computing, internet, robotics/AI
Who needs a peep hole when a wifi network will do? Researchers from MIT have developed technology that uses wireless signals to see your silhouette through a wall—and it can even tell you apart from other people, too.
The team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are no strangers to using wireless signals to see what’s happening on the other side of a wall. In 2013, they showed off software that could use variations in wifi signal to detect the presence of human motion from the other side of a wall. But in the last two years they’ve been busy developing the technique, and now they’ve unveiled the obvious — if slightly alarming — natural progression: they can use the wireless reflections bouncing off a human body to see the silhouette of a person standing behind a wall.
Not only that, the team’s technique, known is RF-Capture, is accurate enough to track the hand of a human and, with some repeated measurements, the system can even be trained to recognise different people based just on their wifi silhouette. The research, which is to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia next month, was published this morning on the research group’s website.
Oct 28, 2015
Introducing the Nissan IDS Concept
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-TLo86K7Ck
At the Tokyo Motor Show 2015, Nissan unveiled a concept vehicle that embodies Nissan’s vision of the future of autonomous driving and zero emission EVs: the Nissan IDS Concept.
Presenting at the show, Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn said: “Nissan’s forthcoming technologies will revolutionize the relationship between car and driver, and future mobility.”
Oct 28, 2015
Yamaha shows Motobot motorcycle-riding humanoid robot
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation
The aim of the exercise is to develop rider-support systems similar to those we are seeing developed in automobiles to make driving safer. “We want to apply the fundamental technology and know-how gained in the process of this challenge to the creation of advanced rider safety and rider-support systems and put them to use in our current businesses, as well as using them to pioneer new lines of business,” says Yamaha’s release.
Oct 27, 2015
Picasso in a space suit: the astronaut artist orbiting Earth — By Jonathan Jones | The Guardian
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI, space, space travel
Photographs taken by astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station are beautiful – but could a robot do better?
Oct 27, 2015
This robot can precisely copy your movements
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
This robot can precisely copy your movements, but more impressively, it can solve a Rubik Cube all by itself. http://voc.tv/1cRrjAQ
Oct 27, 2015
Why robots shouldn’t be allowed to drink
Posted by Josef Koch in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
They cannot stop us. They cannot stop the future. At the recent DARPA Robotics Challenge, things didn’t always go as planned…
Oct 26, 2015
Future of robotics — Boston Dynamics
Posted by Josef Koch in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Oct 24, 2015
Tesla’s Autopilot approved for international use
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
At the launch of its latest Autopilot features, Tesla CEO Elon Musk noted that it would roll out the new vehicle capabilities to nations outside the United States once it got regulatory approval. Today Musk tweeted that the company has gotten approval from all those countries (except Japan). Now Tesla owners around the world can enjoy the slightly unnerving feeling of letting their Model S drive itself on the highway. Musk also announced that Autopilot 1.01 would be coming soon with improved fleet learning, better lane tracking on poor roads, curved speed adoption and controller smoothness.
