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Nov 20, 2015
The Ghost — DSLR Camera Stabilizer — Moving in Place
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Check out the Ghost’s new 3rd Axis with Follow mode in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3HC9WAG5AA&feature=share&li…2cMLxEuD_g
The Ghost is a robotic camera stabilizer designed for DSLR’s, micro 4/3rds, blackmagic, and smaller video cameras.
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Nov 20, 2015
Medical robots – the future of surgery?
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: biotech/medical, business, robotics/AI
For some people the idea of being operated on by a robot might sound horrifying, particularly if there isn’t even a doctor in the room to check that everything is running smoothly. Surgery is in any case a risky business that few would undertake willingly if it wasn’t absolutely necessary, and it seems unlikely that the spectacle of an enormous machine with mechanical arms attached to surgical scalpels would reassure anyone about having to undergo an operation. However, the use of robotic surgery has spread rapidly in recent years and for some types of operations it is becoming the standard. While there is a lot of controversy surrounding the topic, many doctors see surgical robots as a vital tool to provide better medical care and lower the risks associated with surgery.
History of robotic surgery
The roots of robotic surgery go back to the mid-1980s, when a robotic surgical arm was first used to perform a neurosurgical biopsy. Two years later, the first robot-assisted laparoscopic (i.e. keyhole) operation was conducted, a cholecystectomy. The following years saw continued advances in the area of robotic surgery, which was used for a growing range of surgical procedures. One of the earliest robotic surgical systems to enter into general use was the ROBODOC system, which came on the market in the early 1990s and allowed surgeons conducting hip replacements to mill the femur with more precision that would have been conventionally possible.
Nov 20, 2015
Driving will be obsolete sooner than we thought
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Nov 20, 2015
This high-tech car seat will detect your stress level and give you a massage
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Nov 18, 2015
Nick Bostrom: It would be a great tragedy if artificial superintelligence is never developed
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Bostrom tells IBTimes UK that advanced AI creation is on the path to the ‘best possible future’.
Nov 17, 2015
Rodney Brooks and his company are building robots to work in factories
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Rodney Brooks and his company are building robots to work alongside humans in factories. But should workers be concerned for their jobs? :|]
Nov 17, 2015
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Taught?
Posted by Dan Faggella in categories: bioengineering, evolution, machine learning, robotics/AI, science
In spite of the popular perception of the state of artificial intelligence, technology has yet to create a robot with the same instincts and adaptability as a human. While humans are born with some natural instincts that have evolved over millions of years, Neuroscientist and Artificial Intelligence Expert Dr. Danko Nikolic believes these same tendencies can be instilled in a robot.
“Our biological children are born with a set of knowledge. They know where to learn, they know where to pay attention. Robots simply can not do that,” Nikolic said. “The problem is you can not program it. There’s a trick we can use called AI Kindergarten. Then we can basically interact with this robot kind of like we do with children in kindergarten, but then make robots learn one level lower, at the level of something called machine genome.”
Programming that machine genome would require all of the innate human knowledge that’s evolved over thousands of years, Nikolic said. Lacking that ability, he said researchers are starting from scratch. While this form of artificial intelligence is still in its embryonic state, it does have some evolutionary advantages that humans didn’t have.
“By using AI Kindergarten, we don’t have to repeat the evolution exactly the way evolution has done it,” Nikolic said. “This experiment has been done already and the knowledge is already stored in our genes, so we can accelerate tremendously. We can skip millions of failed experiments where evolution has failed already.”
Nov 16, 2015
These wheels can take you in any direction without turning
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Ugh, this is just typical. You think you know the way the world works: wind blows, fire burns, wheels spin and – wait, what’s this thing doing?
What? You mean, it can actually move in any direction without so much as turning on an axis? That’s blowing my mind. I’m no gear head, but I’m sort of attached to having a steering wheel in my car, you know? Now you’re saying that self-driving cars will take those away, and now there won’t even be wheels to turn in the direction you want to go in?
