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Posted by on May 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Willow Garage, a company based in the Silicon Valley, is developing an open source Operating System for robots: the ROS (Robot Operating System). On Tuesday, Willow carport announced the PR2 Beta Program’s 11 recipients selected from 78 proposals, each of them will receive a free PR2 Beta Robot with the ROS. The total value of [...]
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Posted by on April 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The folks at the University of Tokyo have come up with a conceptual controller that enables you to control a pointer on a phone screen without the need to touch the screen. that is a concept that lets you move a pointer around, handle a virtual keyboard, paint in 3D or zoom around a picture [...]
Posted by on April 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Let’s face it, Personal Mobility Robots (PMR) aren’t as cool as they were years ago, but controlling anything aside from a Nintendo Wii using the Wiimote is always a cool affair, and that’s what some of the brains by at the University of Tokyo have done. What will the Wiimote control next? Perhaps it’s possible [...]
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Posted by on March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Scanning documents can be quite a painfully slow process, particularly whether you are using an older model. New scanners for the home user ain’t that speedy either, but how about that high speed scanner which is capable of digitizing an entire book as you flip through its pages? It has a scanning rate of approximately [...]
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Posted by on March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Robots, will there be no end to them? Next up is Kojiro, a humanoid robot that’s being built by the folks by at the University of Tokyo. What makes Kojiro different from the other robots is that it has a detailed musculoskeletal system built into it to imitate the human body, sporting artificial bones, muscles [...]
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Posted by on December 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The boffins at University of Tokyo have manged to develop the “organic flash memory,” a non-volatile memory which boasts a similar basic structure as flash memory despite being made out of organic materials. Both erasing and reading voltages of the new flash memory can go as low as 6V and 1V, respectively. Apart from that, [...]
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