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- See new tech from Japan before it hits the U.S.
- Think CES is the ultimate consumer electronics show? Think again. Japan's Ceatec just wrapped up, and CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos brought back footage of some of the best tech we've yet to see in the U.S. Take a look at what's on the horizon.
- Videos 2007-10-09
- Photo: Robot ITR surfs the Internet
- The new humanoid gadget from Japan's Speecys is designed to download content such as news, quizzes and commercial programming.
- Image galleries 2006-04-03
- Photo: Robot ITR surfs the Internet
- The new humanoid gadget from Japan's Speecys is designed to download content such as news, quizzes and commercial programming.
- Image galleries 2006-04-03
- Photo: Mini-robots with a big kick
- Japan's Citizen Watch, one of the largest watchmakers in the world, announced a tiny robot it hopes will one day be a soccer champion.
- Image galleries 2006-03-10
- Photo: Mini-robots with a big kick
- Japan's Citizen Watch, one of the largest watchmakers in the world, announced a tiny robot it hopes will one day be a soccer champion.
- Image galleries 2006-03-10
- Photo: A robot for the hardhat world
- Japan's Kawada Industries shows off a humanoid robot designed for construction sites. Will it need a union card?
- Image galleries 2005-09-09
- Photo: A robot for the hardhat world
- Japan's Kawada Industries shows off a humanoid robot designed for construction sites. Will it need a union card?
- Image galleries 2005-09-09
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- Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds
- Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?'we need a complete paradigm shift...'Then shift the money. Right now in Texas schools get money for how many pass the TAS test. So that's what is taught, How to pass the TAS test. Give the schools...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- The world's heaviest robot
- This distinction goes to a future autonomous version of the 700-tons Caterpillar mining truck. In a recent article, Discovery News reports that Caterpillar engineers and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to develop this autonomous truck. Japan-based Komatsu already has already delivered autonomous mining trucks to its...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Robot buoy to track oil spills
- Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Toyota tinkers with baby Segways
- Toyota on Friday announced that it is tinkering with a robot called the Winglet, which technically is "a personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position." Translation: Toyota may be eyeballing Segway's turf. The automaker said in a statement that the Winglet is still being refined,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Will you one day marry a robot?
- David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher and international chess master, defended yesterday his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. The name of his thesis is "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners" and the University announced it under the name "Love and Sex with Robots." Levy says...
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- News to know: XP SP3; IE7; RIM shines; RIAA's victory
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases beta of XP SP3 to Vista, Windows Server testers. Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free. Ryan Naraine: MS Patch Tuesday: 7 bulletins coming, 4 critical. Sun issues patch for 'highly critical' Java...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- A swimming robot -- inside your body
- The Boston Globe describes the efforts of a Japanese-born scientist to develop new technologies for use in surgery. His last project is to build a swimming robot designed to explore the human gastrointestinal tract GI tract from esophagus to colon. This 2-centimeter long robot will have a swimming tail to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Network Distributed Monitoring System Based on Robot Technology Middleware
- In this paper, a network distributed monitoring system for human assistance robot system was developed to improve the interaction among the users and local service robotic system and enable a remote user to get a better understanding of what is going on in the local environment. Home integration robot system...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Are androids 'better' robots?
- The latest issue of Connection Science is dedicated to Android science. This special issue was co-edited by Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University. As youll find out in "I, Robot;...
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- A new wide-angle lens for video surveillance
- If youre a photographer, chances are high that you bought one day a wide-angle lens, commonly called a fisheye lens. And if youre like me, you might have used it to take a dozen of pictures before putting definitively the lens into a drawer because of the excessive visual distortions....
- Blog posts 2006-12-02
- From Japan: Next year's gadgets
- Need a robot or headphones that amplify music through your skullNeed a robot or headphones that amplify music through your skull?Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi and others gathered earlier this month at the Ceatec trade show in Japan to show off their new and future TVs,MP3s players, phones and household robots. Think...
- Videos 2006-10-24
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