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Kybernetica.com > September 28, 2005

Racing Robots

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Wanted by the Pentagon: A muscular, outdoorsy specimen. Must be intelligent and, above all, self-driven.

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Ready! Fire!

[After Gutenberg] Slashdot, “where roboguard shoppers look for Calvin's Christmas gift ideas“, tell us about a quintessential sentry gun that uses an airsoft gun, some hobby servos and a webcam. A camera automatically identifies and tracks targets.

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Posted at 01:00 PM

September 28, 2005

Racing Robots

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Wanted by the Pentagon: A muscular, outdoorsy specimen. Must be intelligent and, above all, self-driven.

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Posted at 01:01 PM

Ready! Fire!

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Posted at 01:00 PM

Persistent Java object storage

[Reinouts’ nerdy notes] But on the positive side, yesterday I got my code (over 2k lines already) to actually do something useful for the first time! A large part of my program is a port of existing Python code to Java, which doesn’t always match 1:1.

Posted at 12:59 PM

Rudy Rucker @ IFTF

[IFTF's Future Now] Rudy Rucker is visiting the Institute today, talking about his new book, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul-- one of the most intriguing book titles of the year. Should be interesting.

Posted at 12:57 PM

September 25, 2005

George Wins Loebner Prize

[Banapana] While ALICE is based on the popular AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language), the Jabberwacky language appears to be proprietary technology.

Posted at 01:02 AM

Hydraulic Accumulators

[After Gutenberg] The DSG is essentially two gearboxes in one, combining the comfort of an automatic with the agility and economy of a manual unit. The six-speed, transversely mounted DSG has two wet clutches (offering a higher thermal load tolerance than dry clutches) with hydraulic pressure regulation.

Posted at 01:00 AM

September 20, 2005

Some Questions Answered by a Guy who Makes Robots.

[:: Open Journal ::] I met this funny, soft-spoken gentleman at a sushi party being thrown by his roomates and found out, in my nosy way, that he's a PhD in robotics. He sweetly agreed to answer some questions for me, so I emailed him a small stack of queries to get started.

Posted at 02:13 PM

Rig for Silent Sunning

[After Gutenberg] Well, a clever team of researchers at the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute has added photovoltaics (PVs) and created a new acronym: SAUV, which stands for Solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. According to physorg.com “the SAUV weighs 370 pounds, travels at speeds of up to 2 miles per hour, and is designed to dive to depths of 500 meters.” Yes, that is a pretty limiting speed, on the one hand;

Posted at 02:12 PM

Artificial intelligence vs Actual stupidity

[Student of Life] I only have to update my blog to get annoying spam comments, so I've just been deleting the latest lot. I've now turned on "image verification", where you have to type in some slightly garbled text from an image to prove that you're a human and not an evil spam-spreading piece of computer programming.

Posted at 02:11 PM

Shrinking the Planet Session

[Future Salon] From the program: "Each can greatly personalize the information we receive, "shrinking” the planet by making all the world’s knowledge more accessible than ever before." Peter Barrett is talking about video services over high-speed broadband. Mobile operators in particular are interested in integrating voice, data, video.

Posted at 02:10 PM

September 19, 2005

Tampering With Forces Better Left Alone...

[Dark Ramblings by Jeffery Stevenson] Think movie-predicted AI conquering the world events like Skynet in Terminator or the AI in The Matrix are purely fiction? Well, I just have to say that any software developed that's smart enough to actually figure out English grammar would probably gain sentience and develop into a mankind-conquering uber-intelligence...

Posted at 08:57 PM

Auctioning some geeky stuff

[The Prodigal Sun] I'm selling Seasons 1-5 of The Simpsons and the first book ever written by a computer (The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed, Racter, 1984) on...

Posted at 08:55 PM

Q&A With Ray Kurzweil

[Future Salon] All technology is a product of science and engineering. Peter Schwartz at Global Business Network says 92% of all scientists are alive today;

Posted at 08:50 PM

September 11, 2005

Pilotless helicopter

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] Robots with artificial intelligence are moving from the realm of imagination to reality, opening opportunities for both military and commercial use...

Posted at 12:54 PM

Land Walker Transformer in Japan

[My Ideal Blog - Blog.MyNetCity.com] Ok, I’m just getting too much animation’s series of transformer .Actually, this transformer “robot” is the World’s first bi-pedal...

Posted at 12:53 PM

Automated Autonomy

[After Gutenberg] If you didn’t know this already, one of my pet ideas is “Peeping Blimp“. Thus, I was happy to see at robots.net that NASA is developing an autonomous...

Posted at 12:51 PM

September 05, 2005

Art & Artificial Life International Competition

[COMPUTERGRAPHICA] Other themes are addressed in works that have been given honourable mentions: avatars and players in their unique worlds (Iconica 2.0, Life Spacies II and Unconscious Flow 3.0), new interpretations of the roots of artificial life, such as cellular automatons (Sandlines 3.0, Dadatron 5.0) and system feedback or autonomy translated into simple familiar media (Breathe and Autistic-Artistic Machine 4.0, The Responsive Field of Lattice Archipelogics 5.0).

Posted at 02:36 AM

Meet The Cute iDog

[GadgetSpy] Yet more things jumping on the ever-rolling iPod band wagon, here’s a puppy that loves to listen to its surroundings!

Posted at 02:35 AM

September 03, 2005

Even My Virtual Girlfriend Won't Put Out

[Richard Delevan's sicNotes] The folks at Artificial Life, who offer the Vivienne 'girlfriend experience' for $6 per month, think this is just the beginning; mobile phone companies see it as a lure to get people to spend on 3G handsets and services.

Posted at 10:16 PM

Kybernetica.com > September 28, 2005

Racing Robots

Ready! Fire!

September 28, 2005

Racing Robots

Ready! Fire!

Persistent Java object storage

Rudy Rucker @ IFTF

September 25, 2005

George Wins Loebner Prize

Hydraulic Accumulators

September 20, 2005

Some Questions Answered by a Guy who Makes Robots.

Rig for Silent Sunning

Artificial intelligence vs Actual stupidity

Shrinking the Planet Session

September 19, 2005

Tampering With Forces Better Left Alone...

Auctioning some geeky stuff

Q&A With Ray Kurzweil

September 11, 2005

Pilotless helicopter

Land Walker Transformer in Japan

Automated Autonomy

September 05, 2005

Art & Artificial Life International Competition

Meet The Cute iDog

September 03, 2005

Even My Virtual Girlfriend Won't Put Out

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