Kismet, the robot head created by engineers at MIT already reproduced some human expressions. But the fact is that metal was not as successful an imitation of the human face as Jules, another robot head, but this time rubber. Developed by an American robotics, David Hanson and a team of robotics engineers in the University of Bristol, Jules is able to imitate the expressions of men who observe and movements of their lips. Continue reading
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Human-Robot Interaction in a log House
For thousands of years, wood is used for many types of buildings. The oldest log homes were nearly a thousand years. This type of construction has many advantages and techniques used are old and proven.
The average lifespan of a wooden house full (round or squared) is four to five centuries at least, some more than a thousand years and have crossed the centuries untreated fungal and insecticide. This is an excellent investment with a high resale value and above all through the time with less maintenance problems and a modern construction.
The construction of log home has unique features that are not found in other types of construction. First you have to design log home plan. You can use software for home plans. Continue reading
Asimo will read your mind
Honda is developing the future of robots revolution that will make them closer to us, the more skillful to communicate with us. Researchers have developed an interface that allows the individual to control simply Asimo just by thinking. The system, developed by Honda and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, uses an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to measure brain signals of the individual, then send them to Asimo that treats.
For example, the researcher pointed a finger of honor Asimo, then drew a V in space with his finger. Seconds later, Asimo has imitated. This system, widely discussed in Asimov’s work for other reasons (second foundation) could shortly becoming more complex, and thus enable the robot to analyze the lesser impact brain and why not send a discussion spaced between two parties for hundreds of miles of one
another.
We are facing a major innovation in domestic robotics!
A robot with a living brain
A robot that is controlled himself with his own brain composed of biological neurons in culture was manufactured by British scientists.The robot works with neurons in rats. University of Reading
This is probably the first hybrid machine / animal ever created. Gordon is “alive” since a big week in a laboratory at the University of Reading, England. His brain is composed of neurons from a fetal rat. They were placed in a solution, separated and then deposited on a bed of sixty electrodes.
This multi-electrode array (MTCT) is the interface between living tissue and machine. It allows the brain to send electrical impulses to lead the wheels, for example. And conversely, it receives information on its environment delivered by sensors.
The key here is to assess the learning capabilities of this robot with a living brain. Gordon already seems to learn by repetition. For example, when it hits a wall, brain stimulation and receives a habit he learned to work around the obstacle. The key to learning is the memory that occurs in neurons that have begun to forge connections and multiply in the brain. Continue reading
Towards an artificial life
The research is progressing rapidly on the creation of artificial life forms with the properties of biological life, including replication and the ability to eat.
At the XV International Conference on the origin of life, held in Florence on 24/29 August 2008, a team led by Dr. Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School, presented the prototype with proto cellules the equivalent of genetic information allowing them to reproduce. These include fatty acid molecules that can bind with pieces of nucleic acids containing the source code for replication. to capture solar energy or use energy from chemical reactions, they can form a self-replicator self-evolving, not look at the current earthly life, could simulate the forms of earthly life in its infancy, or that it could exist on other planets.
The model shown in Florence is still not fully autonomous, but represents the form of artificial life using chemical compounds the most comprehensive to date. However, we must go further and reconstruct the conditions of primitive Darwinian evolution by creating the selective forces applied to a large number of sequences able to arbitrarily change on the way of random mutations. This process once started will be particularly interesting because researchers can not by definition predict a priori forms which will lead.x This will create a new form of life that humans have ever seen and that has perhaps never existed (except on other planets?). Continue reading