The highly anticipated film about the Singularity, Transcendent Man Ray Kurzweil, has been released today on DVD in the U.S. To recap, the technological Singularity is -according to wikipedia- “a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid and the growth of super-human intelligence is so great that the future after the singularity becomes [...]
Written on 24 May 2011 by Vincent AbryIn a BBC report, a young Australian named Patrick, a 24 years old with amputated hand, shows the power of his new bionic hand. It’s almost a second hand because gestures look so precise and fast. The young man is able to handle a bottle and a glass of water or tying his shoes with [...]
Written on 20 May 2011 by Vincent AbryCynthia Breazeal is a researcher and associate professor at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group of the MIT Media Lab. In the video below she talks about the development and the arrival of personal and domestic robots in our lives. As a student, Breazeal wondered why we were able to send [...]
Written on 22 Feb 2011 by Vincent AbryThis robotic curtain hack is simply awesome, I love what made this German geek [Niklas Roy]. That could be hours and hours of hidden camera. The curtain is automatically put in front of people walking near the window in order to maintain maximum privacy of the owner. Well it is not yet fully developed, but [...]
Written on 21 Oct 2010 by Vincent AbryAfter the ultra world domination of the web as a search engine, Google will he get into robotics and more specifically in the autonomous car that never has an accident ? Apparently the California company would test the robot cars in the United States, in partnership with DARPA, reports the New York Times, via Google [...]
Written on 16 Oct 2010 by Vincent AbryHRP-4C is a female humanoid robot that is not new (video 1 – video 2). But what is new is that she sings! And not bad ! Next step: when will they insert emotions into robots ? In a few years we will be hard to know who is human or it is not ;-)
Written on 16 Oct 2010 by Vincent AbrySouth Korean PIRO institute (Pohang Institute of Intelligent Robotics) has created a Roomba-like robot that will clean the windows. Windoro works on the same principle as magnets (magnetism). It is actually made up of two separate components that will operate on each side of the glass pane. This original concept can handle 10- 25 mm [...]
Iran has just revealed its first humanoid robot named Surena 2. Surena, named after an ancient Persian warrior, has been presented during a ceremony, attended by Iraqi President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and some 20 robotic researchers from Teheran University who have worked on the project. This clumsy biped robot walks like a human being, but slower, [...]
