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Démonstration virtuelle de l'utilisation de
Claytronics, une matière à forme
programmable composée de modules
sub-millimétriques nommés Catoms à la fois
autonomes et interdépendants.
Détails:
http://www.futura-sciences.com/news-mieux-qu-
hologramme-realite-synthetique-nanotechnologi
e_10348.php
Tags : nanotechnologie catoms claytronics |
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| Geek Brief TV #412 |
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Robotic breakthroughs are entering our lives
quickly in the form of useful by-products. As
scientist work to build safe, humanoid
robots, the technology they discover shows up
in cameras, cars, video games
and more.
The final Brief for Innovation Week is a
couple days late because
we did a little Chicken Fried Bacon thing [1]
with Kat from
RealCookN.TV [2] and it left us feeling a
little ill. It tasted great,
but two slices of deep-fried battered bacon
isn't all that different
than eating 50 piece fried shrimp plate.
Brief 412 is about robotics starting with
information from Intel [3] about research
they're doing on catoms (claytronic atoms)
[4].
Catoms will be programmable electronic atoms
that will form electronic
devices and rearranged themselves to form
other electronic devices. A
research group at Intel is supporting The Big
Trip [5] through PaidByPixels.com [6] and
we'll get some access to some of their
research. I'm hoping we'll get to see what
they're looking at that indicates catom
technology will be available in my lifetime.
iRobot [7] is a leader in bringing practical
robots to market for
consumers and military applications. They've
sold 2.5 million floor cleaning robots to
early adopters like me. It isn't a bad
number, but
it also doesn't indicate mass appeal. The
Christian Science Monitor just ran a piece
[8] about how different the persception
robots is between American consumers and
Japanese consumers. Americans are skeptical.
Japanese are optimistic. Hopefully, exposing
American kids to robotic toys like Pleo [9]
will start to change all that.
Roboticists like Aaron Edsinger is working
on bring robots to market that don't require
a manual. Domo [10] is a cute little guy that
adapts to his environment and has the ability
to put stuff on shelves.
Even though the thought of having robots
actively involved in our
daily lives seems far away, it's actually
happened already. Robotics
research has lead to discoveries that are
already being incorporated
into consumer technology. Facial focus
technology in consumer cameras
came from robotics research. The same is try
of all kinds of technologies being used in
modern cars. C-3P0 and R2-D2 may be years
away, but robots are already working to make
our lives better today.
Links:
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[1] http://www.calilive.tv
[2] http://www.realcookn.tv
[3]
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Intel-Talk
s-Up-Our-Wire-Free-Robot-Ruled-Future-64265.h
tml
[4] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/
[5] http://www.bigtrip.tv
[6] http://www.paidbypixels.com
[7] http://www.irobot.com
[8]
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2007
/05/31/robots-advance-consumers-stall/
[9]
http://www.amazon.com/Pleo-Dinosaur-UGOBE-Lif
e-Form/dp/B000RWEGCO/cali-20
[10]http://people.csail.mit.edu/edsinger/domo
.htm
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Nincs mit mondanom...csak nézd meg és
kommentárd
Tags : EMO |
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