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(via Brooke Gladstone’s The Influencing Machine: A comic-book manifesto about the state of the American media. (2) – By Brooke Gladstone – Slate Magazine)
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After playing several hundred games to develop their language, the robots agreed on directions within 10 degrees and distances within 0.375 meters. And using just their invented language, the robots created spatial maps (including areas that they were unable to explore) that agree remarkably well: (via Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language – IEEE…
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Aldebaran Robotics has just announced that it’s going to open the source code of its popular humanoid robot Nao. The French firm has been developing Nao over the past five years, turning an initially obscure robot with a quirky name into a widely adopted research and education platform used to study human-robot communication, help treat…
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Aldebaran Robotics has just announced that it’s going to open the source code of its popular humanoid robot Nao. The French firm has been developing Nao over the past five years, turning an initially obscure robot with a quirky name into a widely adopted research and education platform used to study human-robot communication, help treat…
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gregmelander: A GOOD DESIGNER “Designers have the ability to visualize what has never been.” As Bruce Nussbaum said, “Many firms are plagued by articulate and persuasive ‘smart talkers’ who sound good in meetings but get bogged down in abstract complexities.” Good designers are good at what I call inspirational tangibility, “making it real,” whether it be by concretizing with a sketch what…
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charlottledarwin: Why Old Books Smell Good “Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to…
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http://www.motion-beam.com/videojs/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf bashford: MotionBeam by Disney Research links a pico projector with the motion sensors in an iPod Touch – allowing interaction with projected characters. (Source: http://www.motion-beam.com/)