Look who’s roaming the red carpet
The paparazzi bots are five autonomous robots, each standing at the height of an average human. These robots won’t vacuum your floor or take out your trash but they will play on your lust for the limelight, provided you catch their interest.
icub meets Spain’s Prince and Princess of Asturias, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia at the Campus Party Milenio, Granada
The event is being celebrated from the 12th -26th of October to mark the the millennium of the Kingdom of Granada. With over 600 experts from 22 countries of the
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MIT professor Sherry Turkle says no but she’s intrigued about some of the deep and meaningful emotions they can provoke in humans.
Turkle stresses that although we are still very far from the point where robots are indistinguishable from humans- as in the movie Blade Runner, based on Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?- humans are capable of forming attachments to robots. During the interview Turkle discusses some of the issues raised through her studies with Cynthia Breazeal, founder and director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab.
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Who couldn’t use the help of a CoBot?
The CoBots are being developed my Professor Manuela Veloso and her team at the CORAL (Cooperate-Observe-Reason-Act-Learn) research group at Carnegie Mellon University. Tasks are easily assigned to them through a special program online and then they are ready to navigate carefully through the workplace delivering items from one office to the next.
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Dom Massaro investigates how we can use technology to help children learn written language in a more inherent way
Children appear to learn spoken language rather effortlessly at around 18 months through mere exposure. However, it’s a common belief that the average child will begin to read much later, around the age of 6.
While great individual diversity exists with regards to the age at which children reach these milestones, it’s generally maintained that the cognitive capabilities
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November 28th-December 4th, 2011
Are you curious about the growing application of robotics in Europe? There’s no need to to be a robotics expert to attend the events that are part of this year’s first ever eu Robotics Week. Events will include: exhibitions, lab tours, public talks, and competitions all organized locally in cities through out Europe.
¨I’m now filming your bionic hand with my bionic eye¨
Protagonist of Eidos-Montreal’s new video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Adam Jensen is a crime fighting cyborg in the year 2027. Like real-life cyborgs, the video game character underwent radical surgeries to merge his body with mechanical parts after a devastating accident.
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Check out Amber Case’s TED talk
While ancient and modern tools serve as an extension of our physical selves, today’s technology also allows us to extend our mental selves. This is what Amber Case discusses in a TED talk on her reasons for becoming a Cyborg Anthropologist.
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Don’t feel so bad, Wall Street does it too
According to Kevin Slavin, Wall Street now employs over 2000 physicists developing algorithms to help manage stock trades. Slavin fears that we’ve done the math but are now unable to understand it, let alone control it.
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According to scientists in the field, neuromorphic chips are old news
In last week’s IBM press release, the company revealed its creation of a ¨ new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition.¨ The two prototype chips are part of IBM’s SyNapse project (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) which employs principles from Neuroscience, Supercomputing and Nanotechnology to form the basis of ¨Cognitive computing¨.
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