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News Although Loebner is convinced there will be a time when we have robots with artificial intelligence in our homes, he remains concerned such technology may not be distributed as fairly as it could be, much in the same way... [10 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The centre currently has four robots, each holding about 20,000 tapes, and it's planning to fit in two more. The Cern Computer Centre, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest... [06 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.08
Round-Up Sharkey said he expects the streets to be patrolled by robots with "human-like features and expressions", which would certainly represent a marked improvement on the incumbents. Sharkey warned us that we can't "put the... [15 Aug 2008]
Robots on the beat by 2084
News Sharkey said he expects robots with "human-like features and expressions" to patrol the streets of the UK to cut crime, detect weapons, carry out drink and drugs tests and free-up police officers' time. [13 Aug 2008]
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News However, the Commission picked out a handful of countries for praise on their digitisation work to date, including Slovakia, which has turned an old military complex into a digitisation facility, complete with "page-turning... [12 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Looking further ahead, Fenn added: "Other technologies that have passed the trigger where they start to be interesting to businesses include 3D printing, surface computing, augmented reality and mobile robots. [11 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up Along with BacoFoil suits and 50-tonne robots giving foot massages, the jet pack has been on the horizon since the Round-Up was tiny. The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. At least, not since that incident with... [08 Aug 2008]
Neural Network Based Fault Diagnostics of Industrial Robots Using Wavelt Multi-Resolution Analysis
White Paper A multi-resolution wavelet analysis coupled with a neural network based approach is applied in the problem of fault diagnostics of industrial robots. The multi-resolution analysis implements discrete wavelet transforms... [04 Aug 2008]
Microsoft previews research efforts
News Microsoft has been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects. But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users to interact only with... [29 Jul 2008]
Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo It might only be the size of a briefcase but an intelligent robot is helping to protect the UK's borders from criminals and terrorists. The modestly named Hero bot uses its spotlights and high resolution cameras to scan the underside of... [24 Jul 2008]
Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News People think of AI and they think of brains in boxes or Terminator - kind of death destroying robots - and actually of course we haven't built those systems and there isn't a brain in a box somewhere worrying about its... [10 Jul 2008]
Resource Scheduling and Load Balancing in Distributed Robotic Control Systems
White Paper This paper describes the latest advances made to a software architecture designed to control multiple miniature robots. As the robots themselves have very limited computational capabilities, a... [10 Jul 2008]
An Experimental Study of Localization Using Wireless Ethernet
White Paper This paper studies the use of wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) as a localization sensor for mobile robots. Wi-Fi-based localization relies on the existence of one or more Wi-Fi devices in the environment to act as beacons, and... [10 Jul 2008]
Cooperative Exploration With Multiple Robots Using Low Bandwidth Communication
White Paper This paper considers the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of mobile robots. In this context it is assumed that the robots have only a low bandwidth communication link. The key... [08 Jul 2008]
Achieving Real-Time Guarantees in Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
White Paper Timely wireless communication is essential to allow real-time mobile applications, such as communication between mobile robots or inter-vehicle communication to be realized. The real-time event-based communication... [03 Jul 2008]
