I would like a mobile graphics/tesla device which would allow me to do high performance computations on an outside device without having to upgrade my laptop. Modular power computing.
Something about the size of a storage backup device.
PETMAN, short for Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin
Marc Raibert, the founder and president of Boston Dynamics, … [says] the biggest challenge was to engineer the robot, which uses a hydraulic actuation system, to have the approximate size of a person. “There was a great deal of mechanical design we had to do to get everything to fit,” he says.
“[The] bot was constructed from four Lego Mindstorms NXT kits, with our old pal the Samsung Galaxy S II serving as the its ‘brain’.”
I recently ran into http://www.khanacademy.org/
I completely believe this is the future of education.
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Fortunate to see this at Microsoft TechFest 2011. Phenomenal work with broad applications.
Papers for reference:
ICP for tracking camera pose:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/rt_model/
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fasticp/
Volumetric Data integration of range data from Kinect sensor with truncated signed distance function:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/volrange/
The digital Michelangelo Project: 3D scanning of large statues:
http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dmich-sig00/dmich-sig00.html
Next, humanity leaves specific robotic applications behind, and begin building cognitive robotics that build on basic skills.
Note: embodied cognition
http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/a-robots-body-of-knowledge
A site like ‘Smallest Program, Largest Impact’ would explore ‘simple’ programs/processes that have had the largest ‘impact’ on people and other systems.
The definition would need to be cleaned up to capture the right kind of content. There is a lot of foundational algorithms/processes across all fields, but I’m not sure all of that content is really what is so interesting – but perhaps it is.
For eg. viruses and Twitter both come to mind as ‘simple’ programs that have had large impact on people.
Discussion of algorithms and ideas to further the product.
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