Bringing Skynet to the masses
MIT back at it again! I had a great time when I visited MIT this summer. I was inside their legendary CSAIL lab and all around campus :)))) http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/e1c3b98df2c03b78d34eb7861c439d40/200757363/MIT-Cheetah-05.jpg Check the video 😉 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/mit-darpa-cheetah-robot/
Interesting little concept although I think the locomotion algorithm needs to be refined. http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/rugged-soft-robot/
The folks at google are back at it again, this time with something revolutionary in the field of image recognition. http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/cb433fb6c234b014394ad56714ceee8b/200707597/google-image-recognition-tech.jpg Check this for a technical explanation :Â http://googleresearch.blogspot.ie/2014/09/building-deeper-understanding-of-images.html http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/google-details-object-recognition-tech/
These guys have found a different approach to the walking/running of robot legs. It can do some impressive tricks and doesn’t require high computational resources. http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/02/achires/
At first I was alarmed but if you stop for a moment and think, setbacks are an important part of development where you weed out the errors and catch the unexpected. http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/667096/1900016_906556259374104_5969473305867496993_n.0.jpg These guys...
