Robotic Nation Evidence: A wave of robotic information

4.30.2004

A wave of robotic information

Over the last two weeks, so many people have sent in so many articles that it has been hard to keep up. Here's a roundup of the many submissions I have received:

Scout Robot Videos -- This is an absolutely fascinating collection of videos showing how small Scout robots can solve problems by collaborating together.
Turning Robots Into A Well-oiled Machine -- Robot Teams To Help Emergency Responders In The Trenches - More detail about the Scout robots that appeared in the previous videos.
Speaking of videos, this page has a multimedia section that contains videos showing a Seqway-based tele-operated robot.
Robotic traffic cones swarm onto highways - From the article: "The self-propelled markers take the form of robotic three-wheeled bases for the brightly coloured barrels that are set out to demarcate road repair zones. Farritor says they can open and close traffic lanes faster and more safely than humans."
Robotic Highway Safety Markers -- a more academic paper on the "robotic highway cones" discussed in the previous article. With photos.
Fujita's unmanned construction system - Construction workers may be out of their jobs sooner than we think.
Deloitte Study Finds $356 Billion Outsourcing Trend - The article states: "In a comprehensive survey of their moves offshore, the world's 100 largest financial-services companies indicate they expect to transfer an estimated $356 billion of their operations and two million jobs offshore over the next five years in efforts to reduce their costs significantly." Two million jobs is a lot of jobs to lose in five years, and that is in just one industry...
Until Vertebrane is available, this system will be useful: A system that projects light beams directly into the eye could change the way we see the world. From the article: "US firm Microvision has developed a system that projects lasers onto the retina, allowing users to view images on top of their normal field of vision. It could allow surgeons to get a bird's eye view of the innards of a patient, offer military units in the field a view of the entire battlefield and provide mechanics with a simulation of the inside of a car's engine."
If you are willing to listen through an audio file, this one contains an interesting description of new hospitals being built in California. It describes how the entire hospital is being adapted to make life easier for robots, and how one entire floor of the hospital will be inhabited only by robots. Go to this archive page, and listen to the file called "Earthquake Standards for Hospitals" on April 26, 2004.
Here's the start of robotic policing:Florida Town to Use Surveillance Cameras - From the article: "One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through."
Fear of crime makes UK most watched country in Europe - "British people are living in greater fear of crime than any other European nation, an anxiety that is fuelling the massive increase in closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras."
And in Washington DC: More spy cameras are on the way
Photo recognition software gives location - From the article: "For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination."
The 'Robotic Psychiatrist' Answers - mentions Robotic Nation.
The Bluewater Revolution - From the article: "The buoy is the antenna, eyes, and brain of a sprawling apparatus suspended beneath the surface like a huge aquatic insect, its legs of thick steel chain tethered to the ocean floor. The creature's body is a group of three cages, each resembling a gigantic toy top. Inside the cages are swirling, stupid mobs of fish."
Open Automaton Project - "The purpose of this project is to engineer modular software and electronic components, from which it is possible to assemble an intelligent PC-based mobile robot suitable for home or office environments."
Robots and the Rest of Us - From the article: "Since when do machines need an ethical code? For 80 years, visionaries have imagined robots that look like us, work like us, perceive the world, judge it, and take action on their own. The robot butler is still as mystical as the flying car, but there's trouble rising in the garage. In Nobel's vaulted ballroom, experts uneasily point out that automatons are challenging humankind on four fronts."
DARPA tech chief envisions the future - From the article: "DARPA spends $29 million per year on its Perceptive Assistant That Learns program, which develops robots programmed to think. The agency and its contractors will first develop an architecture that considers reasoning, learning, perception, language and action for robots, he said."
Everyday robotics, highways with smarts on road ahead - Predictions of the future of robotics by Ed Lazowska, holder of the University of Washington Bill & Melinda Gates chair in computer science and engineering.
Robot butler may rival Jeeves - A look at the house of the future.
Talking to your car becoming natural - "Voice recognition systems have come a long way in the last decade and are used in places like call centres, home PCs and even mobile phones."
Cognitive Rascal in the Amorous Swamp: A Robot Battles Spam - From the article: "Recently I've become acquainted with one of these idiot savants, a software robot called SpamProbe. Its one modest talent is learning by example to recognize junk e-mail messages and keep them from my in-box."
Google is another idiot savant robot, but one having a much larger effect on our world. Google's Goal: "Understand Everything" talks about Google's plan to transition to a much higher plain.
Quick-care kiosks open in 2 Krogers - shows how health care can be sliced and diced in a Manna-like way.
Brain Scans Arouse Researchers - More on brain scans.
Hard disk 'speed limit' found - "The good news: This limit is about 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art data storage devices." Moore's law will continue on hard disks for some time to come...
ROBOT ARMY DECLARES WAR ON TEENAGE PREGNANCY - Robotic babies teach teenagers the rigors of parenthood.
Koolio refrigerator robot - simple but useful.
SAE Walking Robot Challenge Strides Toward Schenectady, New York - starts today: "The SAE Walking Robot Challenge engages collegiate teams to design, build, and test a walking machine with a self-contained power source."
'Paper or plastic' is now 'computer or cashier'
Tiny Computer Could Fight Cancer - From the article: "Scientists have come a step closer to creating a minuscule DNA computer that may one day be able to spot diseases like cancer from inside the body and release a drug to treat it."
Engineer Gives Robots A New Way To 'See' - From the article: "A Johns Hopkins University electrical engineer has developed a new robotic vision system on a microchip that enables a toy car to follow a line around a test track, avoiding obstacles along the way. In the near future, the same technology may allow a robotic surgical tool to locate and operate on a clogged artery in a beating human heart."
New Lab Could Help Robots "Feel" More Like Humans - From the article: "Her work is part of a larger effort to create more sophisticated machines to take over tasks that are too dangerous, too tedious or too difficult for humans. To achieve this goal, many researchers are working on systems that give robots "eyes" to identify objects and avoid obstacles. But Okamura is one of the few engineers trying to replicate the sense of touch."
NASA: Robotic repair of Hubble 'promising' - From the article: "Ed Weiler, NASA's space science chief, told reporters in February that extensive robotic servicing did not appear feasible given the current state of technology." But: "O'Keefe said what changed his mind was the quality of some of 26 responses the agency received in response to a recent call for ideas for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope without putting a space shuttle crew at risk. 'Some of the ideas we've heard are using capabilities that exist right now- actual hardware exists right now,' O'Keefe said, adding, 'It looks feasible at this juncture ... I'd have to put more stock in it right now.'" Here again, you see how quickly robotic technology is advancing -- to the point where the advances surprise even NASA officials.
Seamless - From the article: "Textile manufacturing has a long history of sparking social and technological change. Joseph-Marie Jacquard's automatic loom, introduced in 1801, caused riots among the hand-weavers it began to displace, and later inspired Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and Herman Hollerith's punch cards. Likewise, the demise of cut-and-sew could have significant impact, allowing manufacturers to save time and money by eliminating work usually done by skilled laborers. 'Miyake is weaving garments that don't need to be sewn,' says Jack Lenor Larsen, an internationally renowned textile designer, 'and that is the wave of the future.'"

Thanks to everyone for all of your help! Enjoy!

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