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The benefits:
Paint-able solar cells will indeed bring a revolution in alternative energy arena. Today, we put relatively expensive and uncomfortable solar panels on roofs to produce alternative energy. The new spray-on solar cells will reduce the cost as well and increase the comfort in setting up solar power technology. It can be painted on all surfaces where sunlight is available. You can spray the ultra-thin solar cells on your wall, rooftop, vehicle’s body, aircraft and ships.
According to the researchers, nano-particle inks can generate more energy than traditional solar powers. The South Florida University scientists say such solar cells will be five times efficient than the conventional solar panels. Moreover, many more people will go for green power, thanks to the simplicity in establishment of solar cells. Electronic vehicles can reap the required power while moving.
THE MEGA LIST OF FUTURE PREDICTION
RESEARCH CENTERS
Organizations · Research Centers · Think Tanks
The trend is clear that the major universities, international R&D centers, corporations R&D centers, governments, military industrial complex R&D centers, and great thinkers have and will continue to focus on “Futures Studies” as an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking or futuring. Futures studies and the sub-discipline strategic foresight are the academic field’s most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world, (Source http://www.wikipedia.org/).
Futurepredictions.com has assembled a current list for easy access of just a few of the leading centers which include:
Backed by Google Ventures, IA Ventures, and In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. [Via: businessinsider.com]
“Mission: Record and analyze all that is known about the future, and make it available for analysis. Recorded Future is an early stage company headquartered in the Boston area. We have 20+ employees in various corners of the globe attacking a hard problem – organize the web in a radically new and useful way. The world’s 24×7 media flow is filled with temporal signals, including reports of what’s transpired or statements of what’s expected to come. Recorded Future’s linguistic and statistical algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning we structure the unstructured. We help users understand relationships between entities and events over time. In doing so, we’ve formed the world’s first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world. The Recorded Future team includes computer scientists, statisticians, linguists, technical business people with deep domain expertise in areas such as intelligence and quantitative finance. A high proportion of the team holds PhDs and other advanced degrees. Team members have received numerous accolades including the Fulbright scholarship, MIT’s TR100 award, and more. Our leadership has built multiple successful analytics businesses with aggregate annual revenues in the $100′s of millions. We have a great team, a solid track recorded of success, and a great culture.”
[Via: recordedfuture.com]
Robots for Daily Life
And they can run, WOW! A new version – amazing Robot Asimo
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P3 Honda Advances
The Latest Updated Humanoid…
It Walks! WATCH THE VIDEO UPDATE
Human footsteps are actually a controlled kind of falling. Robot technologists try to be as brave as human toddlers, on the path to building truly mindful Artificial Intelligence.
Credit: Thomas Lucas, Producer / Rob Goldberg, Writer
Robot-Human Convergence
They are increasingly made in our image; yet their core technologies are changing us into entities more like them. They will “take care” of us; one way or the other…
Credit: Thomas Lucas, Producer / Rob Goldberg, Writer
SCIENTIFIC AMERICA
Analyzing What Robots Tell Us About Human Nature:
A Q&A with Will Wright
You don’t truly appreciate the complexity of life until you try to reverse engineer and recreate it, he says.
By Larry Greenemeier
The land of Japan is universally renowned for its stupendous contributions in the domain of global science and technology. From the beginning of the post-World War II period Japan is leading the way in the fields of scientific research, particularly technology, machinery and biomedical research. According to reports, almost 700,000 researchers share a US$130 billion research and development budget, the third largest in the world.
What are the greatest technological contributions of Japan therefore? Well, they happen to be in the fields of electronics, automobiles, machinery, earthquake engineering, industrial robotics, optics, chemicals, semiconductors and metals. It is to be noted, that Japan leads the world in robotics production and use, possessing more than half (402,200 of 742,500) of the world’s industrial robots used for manufacturing.
2008 AWARD WINNER
The same vigor was found, in the recent days, when HRP-4C humanoid robot got introduced before the assembled audience. The HRP-4C humanoid robot was found to display her stormtrooper-like silver and black frame and bowed to a fashion-savvy audience at the start of the annual Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo. What was the outcome? Though the approach was applauded, it was also realized that there are still plenty of room for improvement.
Now let’s focus on the exciting features of this HRP-4C humanoid robot. The very robot consists of battery-powered motors in her body and face that enables her to simulate the expressions, pace and poses of a supermodel to a certain extent. Speaking on this Shuji Kajita, director of humanoid robot engineering at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) stated, “Our robot can’t move elegantly like the real models that are here today.” “It’ll take another 20 to 30 years of research to make that happen.”
What was the total expense? As stated by the AIST designers, only the eyes, face and hair of the robot did cost about $2 million to develop. What are the immediate plans? Japan has the firm conviction to go on with the experiments that will lead to more improvements. Remember that Japan is home to just about half of the world’s 800,000 industrial robots.
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