Aberystwyth, Wales – A robot named Adam who can develop theories and test them almost without help from humans, became the first machine to a new scientific discovery. His experiences have provided additional expert knowledge about the genetic mechanisms of yeast. In the magazine Science, Professor Ross King and his colleagues the laboratory of the University of Aberystwyth in Country of Wales Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence
Fuzzy logic has been used now for many years in the control algorithms of robots. Fuzzy logic includes not only expert systems, reviewed and visited, but also the direct use of fuzzy logic in programs simply by adding rules and fuzzy variables in the main program. We tend to the latter type of use in multi-robot architectures. Continue reading
Neural Networks Can Improve wind farm forecasts
Researchers from the University of Alcala and the Complutense University in Madrid have invented a new method for Predicting the wind speed of wind farm aerogenerators … using knowledge generated from systems that simulate the workings of animals’ nervous systems. A combination of weather forecasting models and artificial neural networks, the New Method Enables researchers to calculate the energy that wind farms will produce two days in advance.
A humanoid in basque beret?
It is the “Holy Grail” of all robotics: build a machine that can communicate, move, act, adapt to new situations as would a man. A device where all the specialties of robotics would be met – visual recognition, speech synthesis, walking, handling, etc.. – And having our appearance. Only problem: the dream of engineer not enthusiastic about the French industry, the only ones able to finance such research. In Japan, however, large companies like Toyota and Honda are committed to compete in this area. Continue reading
ConnectR, a robot that can see everything
No, although it is not like the famous and powerful super smart Roomba vacuum cleaner but belongs to the same family. This time, iRobot has surprised us with a device that is no longer engaged to scrubbing floors or picking up dust but deals with a subject far more interesting as the control of what happens to every inhabitant of our house. Because ConnectR is a device consisting of a camera and a microphone that will monitor and listen to each family member Continue reading
Spykee, another robot that monitors the home
I’ve had the opportunity to speak to ConnectR, the new iRobot robot that sees and feels everything. But it seems that this android shaped vacuum already has his opponent in the world of spies and investigations. His name is Spykee and was shown at the Digital Life show a New York also has been born not to follow in the footsteps of the inhabitants of the apartment but to control everything and every aspect of the home are as they should. Continue reading
Bio-Robotics : Elastic Strip Framework
Most motion planning algorithms assume complete knowledge of the geometry of environment. Typically obstacles in the environment are assumed to be static or their motion is known as a function of time. To generate a motion, the algorithm performs a search in the configuration space of the robot, C.. Such a space encapsulates all legal, Cfree , and illegal, Cobs, configurations of the robot and the goal is to find a continuous path in Cfree connecting initial and final configurations. For robots with multiple degrees of freedom, the configuration space is extremely high-dimensional. To allow planning for environments with moving obstacles the configuration space must be further augmented by the dimension of time. Performing a search in such high-dimensional spaces is infeasible and people have in the past resorted to probabilistic and randomized approaches that confine the search space to a subset of all possible configurations. Continue reading
A robotic arm able to extract a piece of shrapnel without human assistance
Engineers at the University of Duke, have developed a prototype robot that can locate pieces of metal small size (one millimeter) in the flesh, and then guide a needle to their exact location, without the Using a human assistance. With this prototype the researchers are now convinced that it will be possible also to treat injuries on the battlefield, performing surgery high complexity, such as placing or removing radioactive seeds used in the treatment of prostate or other cancers.
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In conflict zone, the robot is a pledge of security
MIT is working on a forklift capable of autonomous transport equipment and move. Artificial reproduction of the different sensations will able to analyze and understand their environment.
To supply the areas of conflict without putting anyone in danger, the Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at MIT runs a development program without a forklift driver that can handle the load and transport equipment almost independently. Continue reading
The robots create a trace that they will learn to follow
To better coordinate the movement of robots relative to each other, researchers have developed a system for predicting the direction of their leader based on its behavior.
Researchers in robotics from the University of California at Davis have developed a control system that allows the robots to collect evidence suggesting that their leader is about to turn, predict where it will go and therefore forward. “This is a fundamental problem in robotics,” says Sanjay Continue reading