Scenario 2020. WWIII in progress. It’s up to you to save humanity. I love the in-game haptic touch table.

When I think about the future of the internet and “Web 3.0″, I generally don’t dwell on haptic displays or fully-immersive virtual worlds. Rather I think about the Do Button.  I’ve given a series of talks this year on emerging technologies that will change the world, and one of the main topics covered [...]

On your next trip to India – you might just want to take a detour to Ambalappuzha.  Ambalappuzha is a small town in the state of Kerala, in southern India. The town is famous for its Sri Krishna temple and its rice pudding.
For the temple of Ambalappuzha is where the legend of Paal Payasam originates.
According [...]

SciVestor took a tour of the Robotics Pavilion at National Instruments’ NI Week 2008.  Anu Saha, NI marketing manager discusses academic and corporate partnerships that feature LabView and CompactRIO technologies.

I was sitting a home watching TV the other evening when a commercial came on the screen that blew me way.  It was made to look like archival footage of an old gas station being built, circa early 20th century. Snow-capped mountains loom in the distance indicating the creation of an American outpost where the [...]

iC Hexapod is the coolest robot I’ve ever seen. Builder Matt Denton of Micromagic Systems designed and machined the parts, motherboard, controller, and algorithms required to bring elegant animate life to this gorgeous piece of creative engineering, as Denton calls it. Each leg sports three servos giving it 18 degrees of freedom. [...]

Imagine being able to instantly multiply your strength a factor of 2 to 10. A company out of Japan called Cyberdyne has an exoskeleton suit on the market that does just that. It’s been described as a “wearable robot” that assists in performing everyday things like climbing stairs or carrying heavy things.

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Imagine being able to instantly multiply your strength a factor of 2 to 10. A company out of Japan called Cyberdyne has an exoskeleton suit on the market that does just that. It’s been described as a “wearable robot” that assists in performing everyday things like climbing stairs or carrying heavy things.

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The SynTactic Analysis using Reversible Transformations (”START”) system is a super information-finding technology that was developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It’s a system that’s been running since 1993–long before Google came along.
The system has two syntactic modules: One for [...]

In an effort to improve the technology of bionics, Festo’s Bionic Learning Network has produced several proof-of-concept robots. Two such proofs are the AquaJelly and the AirJelly. The structure and kinematics of these projects are based on their biological model, the jellyfish. The results are nothing short of elegant. Watching these [...]