Kojiro mimics the human body and can handle more complex movements.

Kojiro is a humanoid which is built by the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory.

Kojiro  musculoskeletal humanoid robot has a detailed musculoskeletal system built to mimic the human body.

via Engadget

To develop control algorithms for Kojiro, the JSK team is using an iterative learning process. This kind of system has lots of nonlinearities and is hard to model precisely.

The main drawback of using a musculoskeletal system is that controlling the robot’s body is difficult. For balance, the robot uses three gyros and a three-axis accelerometer on its head. To keep track of its posture and limb positions, they embedded joint angle sensors on spherical joints and six-axis force sensors on the ankles. To make the robot safer, the researchers built its body using mostly light and flexible materials. The results are transmitted to a computer and displayed on a control screen developed by Takanishi. A driver circuit board automatically adjusts the current fed to the motors based on temperature measurements.

Each motor unit has a rotary encoder, tension sensor, and current and temperature sensing circuit. Its brushless motors are quite small but can deliver a substantial 40 watts of output power. These tendon-muscle structures — Kojiro has about 100 of them — work together to give the robot some 60 degrees of freedom, or… Read the rest

Use your Android to find restaurants, shops, new friends, never miss the latest event in your hometown or on your vacations and for sure Socialize

Finding information at the nick of the time is very important. But one cannot get hold of laptop and WiFi connection every time, hence the presence of intuitive smart-phone applications have revolutionized the way people interact with physical location and object, we call it Augmented Reality. Here is a video about Augmented Traffic Views – Android to get an idea.

This Android application list below, is an abstract of local based applications where you need on some GPS functions, or Augmented Reality functionality or the applications we present here on this list are web-based applications, designed for your Droid (R2D2_?)

First of all let us check your GPS status that we can start, when your phone also has Augmented Reality?! [Great]

GPS Start Up

GPS Status displays the information received from the phone’s GPS receiver and other sensors.

In addition to the basic location information it can extract and display the state and location of each visible GPS satellite which is displayed on a simple sky view. The outer circle represents the horizon while the center corresponds to the zenith right above your head. The little blue arrow represents true north, while red means south. In addition there is a little compass needle that always… Read the rest

Very very impressive 3d business card with augmented reality

At first glance this appears to be a CGI post process.

AR Business Card

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

Video from a previous AR project

Meet Roboni-i: The unique fusion of interactive gameplay and real world robotics.

Complete your own missions or compete against friends. Program and customize your Roboni-i. You can even create your own games to share with friends! Join the vibrant Roboni-i online world and guide your customized avatar through a virtual lunar world where you can run missions, play intense games, set up tournaments and meet other Roboni-i users.

Robonica, the owner of Roboni-i, is based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Their second office is at Centurion, South Africa. This is what the company says about its project.

Say hi to Roboni-i, the world’s first programmable gaming robot. With nimble 360º movement, 16 sensors and 4 processors, Roboni-i can navigate on its own, avoid obstacles, play games, do tricks – and interact with its environment. It’s easy to customize and loaded with games; play on your own or against friends with similar robots. You can even create your own games, or download games others have created.

• Shoot, scoop, capture and maneuver through single and multiplayer games
• Use the same remote controller offline and online
• Infrared sensors to detect obstacles and interact with other robots
• ZigBee (RF) technology allows different robots to participate in team games.

Watch the Roboni-i move autonomously. See the amazing technology that allows one robot to follow the other. See them dance in perfect choreographed style!

Roboni-i Christmas

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Six ways

An easy way to show this list via NewScientist with images

I hope I have made it

Keep them in low-risk situations

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Do not give them weapons

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Give them rules like Asimov’s ‘Three Laws of Robotics’

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Program robots with principles

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Educate robots like children

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Make machines master emotion

More Details via Six ways to build robots that do humans no harm

Please comment your ideas for other ways.

Are these all possibilities?

What do you think?

Everybody can build his own wearable ‘SixthSense’

MIT grad Mistry to make digital ‘SixthSense’ open source [slideshow]

“People will be able to make their own hardware. I will give them instructions how to make it. And also provide them key software…give them basic key software layers. . . they will be able to build their own applications. They will be able to modify base level and do anything”.

Mistry, a PhD student in Pattie Maes’ Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab

more pictures s i x t h s e n s e - a wearable gestural interface (MIT Media Lab)

sixth-sense technology – a wearable gestural interface

Talks Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

material via Slashdot  “MIT Grad To Make Digital “SixthSense” Open Source”, ZDnet “The importance of Sixth Sense going open source” and the origin source “MIT grad Mistry to make digital ‘SixthSense’ open source”

XPERO project Research on technology to understand human being [Degrees of freedom]

XPERO’s A.I. is stored in Nao, an autonomous, programmable and medium-sized humanoid robot. This video demonstrates and explains very simple the complexity of the science declared A.I. (artificial intelligence).

4. Degrees of freedom (“…from the data obtained this way, he builds a model that describes what we know as degrees of freedom.”)

A robot explores his environment and learns from his experiences

This is about autonomous robot scholarship by experimentation and gaining insights of the world. The robot has no particular goal but to gain knowledge of as much as possible by forecast and executing experiments in his environment and of course from its knowledge-beginning obtained data. The robot learns relations between its measures and observations.

Degree-Of-Freedom

Conscious that the robot is gifted to move the boxes, it wonders how far it is capable to impulse them. It chooses a box and begins to push it in one command awaiting the box hits a wall. Surprised that the box is out of the blue unmovable, he tries just about it in new directions and succeeds to slide the box down the wall, in anticipation of he reaches a corner.

From the data obtained this way, he builds a model that describes

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“Daisy Bell” was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. In 1961

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Do you know other awesome Robot videos History or Futuristic?

like this one

The synth-playing robot (1984)

Idea via SynthGear “The synth-playing robot”

The AIDA project (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent), a collaboration between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots Group of Media Lab), is a platform comprising of a personal robot and an intelligent navigation system that aims to bring an innovative driving experience.

“Biped robot that balances dynamically using a human-like walking motion.”

Idea to this post an more videos via FastCompany

Boston Dynamics is a small engineering and robotics firm spun off from MIT in 1982. According to its own Web site it “builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed.” Those parameters sound kinda military-like for a reason: BD has worked with DARPA, the Army, the Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as the more innocuous-sounding Sony. Their current starting lineup:Biped robot that balances dynamically using a human-like walking motion.

Can it be more realistic (scary)?

Comments are appreciated.

“Everyone needs a gatling gun built into their iPhone.”

Wired Gadget Lab stated Firepower as “Augmented Stupidity Lands on the iPhone”

I’m adapting.

autonomous car controlled with an iPhone

I was looking for posts about artificial intelligence (AI) and stumbled over this project from the Freie Universitaet Berlin

“Spirit of Berlin” is a project of the Artificial Intelligence Group, directed by Prof. Raul Rojas, at Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Essential Components for an Autonomous Car

via PDF

Spirit of Berlin is the well known “two-time world champion and five times European champion in robotic soccer”

For your sensation now watch  iPorsche, we all love Porsche, don’t we?

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