Human-Centered Design
Design of the Future
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Futurism
Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living
Still a few days lefty to check out Open House at Art Center College in Pasadena, CA. It’s running through July 1.
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Robotics
Microsoft Moves into Robotics
Microsoft believes the demand for consumer, research, and military robots will grow significantly–and it wants to own the market, with Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) and the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE). MSRS is a visual programming environment, similar to the LabView-based software provided with LEGO’s Mindstorms NXT kit. (more…)
I had a slingshot when I was a kid but it didn’t look like Artificial Intelligence
Roboflies
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming to create biologically inspired “roboflies” — tiny, inexpensive, quick-moving robots they can send into space for planetary exploration. Imagine swarms of inexpensive robots seeking out life in other galaxies. The concept is simple really, just as schooling fish and flocking birds have evolved to take advantage of the increased odds of survival so too would the robots. (more…)