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2016, The Year of the Robot

March 8, 2016 by Yaser Khalifa

maria from metropolisThe German film Metropolis premiered in March of 1927. In the years since its release it has become a classic among multiple generations, who consider it a pioneering work of art in the science-fiction genre. The centerpiece of the film is a robot named Maria, played by Brigitte Helm. At the time of the film’s release, the likeness was groundbreaking. Maria was not the first robot in film, but the character is arguably the most popular; since, it has inspired a number of other replicas in popular culture, due to our fascination with artificial intelligence and animated machinery. Each of these were rooted in fantasy, yet as life often imitates art, recent developments show that cohabitational robots are becoming much more of a reality than many have imagined.

Take the next generation Atlas robot, for example. Created by Boston Dynamics, the robot is shown in the video here as being capable of navigating snowy and rather difficult grounds, which Extreme Tech describes as an incredible feat that took humans half a billion years to master, in terms of evolution. The second generation Atlas also has the intelligence to realize when something has been moved–such as the boxes which it’s also able to lift and place on a shelf–to recover from resistance, and to even stand up on its own after being knocked over. The machine is downright fascinating and it’s just one of the advancements we’ve seen this year.

Aido, a personal robot that responds to voice commands and even plays with children, will be in people’s homes as soon as this fall. Like some of the machines we’ve seen in movies, the bot responds to touch through haptic sensors, which allows it move throughout the home or office. One of the more incredible features is its built in face recognition technology, and ability to communicate what it seen. For entertainment purposes, the robot is reported to have the ability to control electronics devices throughout the home as well.

To be expected later in the future, is a robot created to help the elderly, providing assistance and companionship. Embedded with a sense of emotions and  capable of bringing past conversations to memory, the goal of the robot, Nadine, is said to help patients suffering from dementia diseases, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Almost 50 million people suffer from dementia worldwide, and because there is no treatment, any assistance that can facilitate living with the disease is certainly welcome. There is no current release for Nadine but the technology is there.

These developments are but a few debuting this year. This list from Robotics Trends shares more of what consumers and purveyors of artificial intelligence can expect in the next few months, based on revelations at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). As a society, we seem to be moving into future more quickly than ever. Whether it’s playing with children, moving boxes, or having conversations with the elderly, these scientific advancements are turning fantasies into reality, one research project at a time.

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Technology, Trends Tagged With: artificial intelligence, engineering, robotics, technology

Machines Teach Humans About the Stars

January 20, 2015 by Yaser Khalifa

When people think of the stars they usually think about the stereotypical star or the sun. What they don’t think of is the sheer number of stars that our galaxy (let alone our universe) contains and how the sheer mass and number of stars can make studying them incredibly difficult for even the most obsessed and dedicated astrologer. Thankfully, machines and robots are able to accomplish certain things much faster than humans can and they are incredible useful when it comes to sifting through huge amounts of data. Scientists are now using machines like this to help with their study of stars and planets all around the universe.

The use of machines and computers to help scientists shift through data is still relatively new. That being said, it is quickly gaining steam and becoming the norm as computers can go through massive lists much faster and, potentially, notice patterns that would escape the human eye. Normally the search for patterns in stars and planets is accomplished by a spectrum; the sifting of starlight through different wavelengths in an attempt to discover properties. Now machines can use complicated algorithms that sift through data at a much faster and more accurate speed. This allows computer to take information on billions of stars in a relatively quick manner when compared to previous efforts.

After taking the pictures of stars gathered by thousands of telescopes around the world, the computers search through a massive database that show’s all of the pictures of the same stars taken over a period of time. By looking for differences in size, brightness, and other factors, the computers can find new classes of stars as well as track the progress of existing stars as they head towards supernova. This sort of information will become more and more valuable as humanity continues to explore space looking for both evidence of life as well as potential colonizable planets.

If you’d like to read more, the link is here.

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