Comments on: Posts of the Year http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/ Listening for the pitter-patter of tiny metal feet. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adalberto Karns http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Adalberto Karns Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:58:21 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-994 Heaps of Great information in your post, I favorited your blog post so I can visit again in the near future, Cheers Heaps of Great information in your post, I favorited your blog post so I can visit again in the near future, Cheers

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-657 Milan Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:10:16 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-657 Getting and maintaining commenters takes absurd amounts of effort. If I miss even a single day of posting, traffic drops of dramatically the next day. Getting and maintaining commenters takes absurd amounts of effort. If I miss even a single day of posting, traffic drops of dramatically the next day.

]]> By: mark http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-656 mark Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:29:33 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-656 Our own little message board, right here. My PhD basically. Recognising places from photographs. Very soon the talk should be up on videolectures.net, so I'll post about it then. Our own little message board, right here.
My PhD basically. Recognising places from photographs. Very soon the talk should be up on videolectures.net, so I’ll post about it then.

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Milan Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:44:57 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-655 What was your lecture about? What was your lecture about?

]]> By: mark http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-654 mark Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:49:37 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-654 Hey Milan - I hadn't seen any of those! I've been away in Australia giving a lecture. Thanks for the links. The missile defense one is rather interesting! Hey Milan – I hadn’t seen any of those! I’ve been away in Australia giving a lecture. Thanks for the links. The missile defense one is rather interesting!

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Milan Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:12:11 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-653 You've probably seen this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM" title="YouTube - Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test" rel="nofollow">Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test</a> You’ve probably seen this:

Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Milan Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:40:43 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-652 <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/29/142258&from=rss" rel="nofollow">Smart Robot Capable of Hunting For Its Own "Food"</a> By Soulskill on note-to-robots-i-am-not-food coondoggie writes "Ok, maybe this is getting a little too close to bringing Terminator-like robots to life. For starters, eco-friendly engine builder Cyclone Power this week inked a contract from Robotic Technologies, Inc. (RTI) to develop what it calls a beta biomass engine system that will be the heart of RTI's Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR). The purpose of EATR is to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic platform able to perform long-range, long-endurance missions without the need for manual or conventional re-fueling — in other words it needs to 'eat.' According to researchers, the EATR system gets its energy by foraging, or what the firms describe as 'engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating. It can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable.'" We can only hope they don't team up with the Multi-Robot Pursuit System project to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human." Smart Robot Capable of Hunting For Its Own “Food”

By Soulskill on note-to-robots-i-am-not-food

coondoggie writes “Ok, maybe this is getting a little too close to bringing Terminator-like robots to life. For starters, eco-friendly engine builder Cyclone Power this week inked a contract from Robotic Technologies, Inc. (RTI) to develop what it calls a beta biomass engine system that will be the heart of RTI’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR). The purpose of EATR is to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic platform able to perform long-range, long-endurance missions without the need for manual or conventional re-fueling — in other words it needs to ‘eat.’ According to researchers, the EATR system gets its energy by foraging, or what the firms describe as ‘engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating. It can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable.’” We can only hope they don’t team up with the Multi-Robot Pursuit System project to “search for and detect a non-cooperative human.”

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Milan Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:21:07 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-560 I thought this might interest you: Vehicle-safety systems <a href="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12758720" rel="nofollow">Stopping in a hurry</a> Dec 11th 2008 From The Economist print edition Cars are getting better at avoiding collisions. Before long they may be communicating with each other to make roads safer I thought this might interest you:

Vehicle-safety systems
Stopping in a hurry

Dec 11th 2008
From The Economist print edition
Cars are getting better at avoiding collisions. Before long they may be communicating with each other to make roads safer

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-559 Milan Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:23:00 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2008/12/19/posts-of-the-year/#comment-559 I will look through those selected posts. Some of the dancing hexapods are very amusing. I will look through those selected posts.

Some of the dancing hexapods are very amusing.

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