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Joint Japanese and French Robotics Laboratory Develops Thought Controlled Robot

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November 14, 2012

CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory)

“Basically we would like to create devices which would allow people to feel embodied, in the body of a humanoid robot. To do so we are trying to develop techniques from Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) so that we can read the peoples thoughts and then try to see how far we can go from interpreting brain waves signals, to transform them into actions to be done by the robot.”
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Headquarters of AIST are located in Tsukuba and Tokyo. AIST has over 40 autonomous research units in various innovative research fields, and the units are located at nine research bases and several sites (smaller than research bases) of AIST all over Japan. About 2400 researchers (about 2100 with tenure: about 80 from abroad) and thousands of visiting scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and students from home and abroad are working at AIST. About 700 permanent administrative personnel and many temporary staff support research works of AIST.

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Future Evolution of a New Species with Robo Sapiens the Race to Build Androids

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February 1, 2012

Robo sapiens
Evolution of a New Species
Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio

“Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist—automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will be something else: smart machines that act like living creatures. When they are brought into existence, science fiction will have become fact.

What will happen then? With our prosthetic limbs, titanium hips, and artificial eyes, we are already beginning to resemble our machines. Equally important, our machines are beginning to resemble us. Robots already walk, talk, and dance; they can react to our facial expressions and obey verbal commands. When they take the next step and become fully autonomous, what will they do? Will we be partners or rivals? Could we meld into a single species—Robo sapiens?

In Robo sapiens, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio present the next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than one hundred robots is an account of the little-known, yet vitally important scientific competition to build an autonomous robot. Containing extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal “field notes” with behind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about the machines, Robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future.”

Designing and Building Sensual Androids and Robots

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Future Predictions University: What is the Best Way to Predict the Future in an Exponentially Changing World? 10⁹+ SU Team Projects

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November 25, 2011

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“WHY IS PETER SMILING?
CHAIRMAN & CEO OF THE X-PRIZE FOUNDATION

Peter Diamandis – The best way to predict the future?

Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, discusses the best way to predict the future, and shares his personal philosophies on innovation and the commercial space industry. Flimed at Singularity University’s Executive Program, March 2010.

10⁹+ Singularity University Team Projects

The Team Project for SU’s Graduate Studies Program is the centerpiece of the curriculum where students are given a challenging, interdisciplinary, and real world problem that exemplifies one of humanity’s grand challenges. Team Projects are called 10⁹+ (ten to the ninth, plus), meaning that students will be asked how they can impact 1 Billion people, worldwide, in a positive way, within 10-years time leveraging accelerating technologies.

FOR A LIST OF THE CURRENT X-PRIZES SEE: xprize.org

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Future Predictions: Humanoid Replacements Coming as Robot Anthropomorphically Balances, Walks, Squats, and Does Calisthenics

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November 14, 2011

HUMANOID REPLACEMENTS TAKE THE STAGE

“PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the DoD CBDP. For more information about PETMAN” [Via: www.BostonDynamics.com.]