Category: Robot
There's a new game in town, the Robot Death March (Facebok game), with levels called "smack my beach up" and the bikini ladies using sling-kini's to launch Hand-Breaded CContinue
In six short years since founding their Santa Monica-based studio Eight VFX, Baptiste Andrieux and Jean-Marc Demmer have built an industry-wide reputation for inspired work across the commercials, film and TV space.Continue
There’s a tension at the heart of web working. Technology allows us to do our jobs nearly anywhere, and there’s plenty of appetite for the flexibility of location independence.Continue
It's one thing to understand the coming robot apocalypse. It's one thing, that is, to acknowledge and accept the fact that robot overlords (or "roboverlords") will calculate the location of, and then crush out of existence, our fragile human souls with their gigantic titanium pincers. That we expect. That is inevitable. But this? This is too, too much. Continue
Have you ever felt like your household appliances are watching your every move and conspiring amongst each other? No? Oh well, I guess that's just me. It's exactly what European researchers are hoping to enable though, by building a data sharing service called RoboEarth that automated devices can use to share information between themselves.Continue
Video artist Ze Frank used to say that it would take him all day long to produce each of his five to ten minute long pieces. That's not unusual: creation of multi-media content is incredibly time and resource expensive, especially compared to the creation of text content. That's why I have a lot of interest in today's public launch of Qwiki - a service that combines speech-to-text and assembled multi-media to create little slideshows based on Wikipedia entries.Continue
As if the journalism field weren't crowded enough, robot reporters have hit the market with sports statistics company StatSheet's automated sports reporting effort.
Beginning today, nearly 350 Division 1 college basketball teams will receive constant, in-depth coverage of their season in what the company is calling "the world's first network of websites driven entirely by high-quality, automated content".
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To the litany of reasons why you should support open source, make sure you add this: robots.
Today marks the third anniversary of ROS, Robotics Open Source. The robotics software project initially began as a collaboration between the STAIR project at Stanford and the Personal Robots Program at Willow Garage, and there are now over 50 public repositories and at least 50 robots using ROS in mobile manipulators, quadrotors, cars, boats, space rovers and more.Continue
