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November 8, 2010 Scientists used a brain-computer interface to show how the activity of just a few brain cells can control the display of pictures on a computer screen. The finding sheds light on how single brain cells contribute to attention and conscious thought.
Controlling Computers with Your Mind
Nerve-cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining toward the sun.
Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Machine | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nerve Cells (Illustrated) Benedict Campbell/Wellcome Images via Flickr
Silicon Chips Wired With Nerve Cells Could Enable New Brain/Machine Interfaces | Popular Science
Building a Super Robust Robot Hand - IEEE Spectrum
German researchers have built an anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure collisions with hard objects and even strikes from a hammer without breaking into pieces. In designing the new hand system, researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) , focused on robustness. They may have just built the toughest robot hand yet.
The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a robot is damaged or its environment changes unexpectedly, it can't adapt.
robot adapts to injury
FIRST TECH CHALLENGE (FTC): For this year's FIRST Tech Challenge, teams of students built robots to play HotShot!
Finding the Top Bot: High School Students (and Their Robots) Take the Prize at Tech Challenge [Slide Show]: Scientific American
The Sentry Project
A turret is a rotating weapon platform usually controlled manually or remotely. A sentry gun is a step up from that because it is computer controlled. It engages targets all by itself. The software that controls the turret can be referred to as a targeting system. We specialize in all of the above.
What better way to get back into writing a futurist blog than to talk about cute robots, eh? Last weekend, I had the opportunity to go and check out the Robotville exhibition that was taking place at the Science Museum here in London. The exhibition was billed as ‘the most cutting edge in European robot design and innovation’ and although I seriously doubt that claim was terribly genuine, it was definitely something that any futurist would want to have a look at. Unfortunately the exhibition was far too crowded, so it was difficult to get much time with any of the robots or their creators (it’s kind of hard to push your way passed wide-eyed kids enjoying an educational day out with their parents…).
Beyond Cute Robots: Towards a New Concept of Sentience
Thousands of budding engineers and roboticists from around the world converged in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome this past weekend to see whose robot was the best of the best in the 19th annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) championship. The tournament’s three different robotics competitions were the culmination of months of hard work and commitment for the students and their mentors. Beach Cities Robotics from Redondo Beach, Calif., The HOT Team from Milford, Mich., and Bobcat Robotics from South Windsor, Conn., formed an alliance that took the top spot among 340 teams in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). FRC—open to students in grades nine to 12, ages 14 to 18—challenged teams to build robots from a kit of hundreds of parts in six weeks.
Observations: Robots run wild as this year's FIRST championship wraps up in Atlanta
Unreality - Ten of the Best Movie Robots |
Robots in movies has always been a fascinating subject. On the one hand Robots carry that machine like mystique that enables them to do things that we humans can’t.
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