On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Rick A <businterf
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Robots & Humans event was worth going to. It included two
> presentations: the first demonstrating some very compelling work, one
> project in particular with an arm 'reacting' to a bottle of water being
> thrown toward it while 'predicting' it's trajectory and the arm was able to
> catch the bottle successfully, with 100% accuracy once the system had been
> optimized. That particular system was using infrared sensors in a limited
> area to 'see' the bottle, and the demonstration proved the concept very
> well. The second presentation was by the head of the AI Lab at Stanford,
> and demonstrated some history of robotics and pointed out that robotics has
> made particularly impressive progress in just the last 10-15 years. There
> was also a robotic bartender: no kidding, a guy with a mohawk created a
> machine that will create a martini for you automatically. I'll post a link
> to the event video if and when it's posted.
> On Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:04:52 AM UTC-7, Rick A wrote:
>> Honda has a new two-wheeled mobility device called the Uni Cub:
>> http://www.wired.com/**autopia/2012/05/honda-uni-cub/<http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/05/honda-uni-cub/>
>> It should solve the problem of falling into fountains while texting...
>> I'll be attending the Robots & Humans event in SF on Monday. If anyone
>> else is going let me know, I'd like to meet you. I'll report.
>> Can't wait to attend my first Makers Faire this weekend!
>> Rick
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