Showing posts with label Spectrum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spectrum. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2010

AR Drone: Augmented Reality Flying Robot

AR Drone is a flying robot which has 4 propellers, two cameras and can be controlled with device with WiFi, for example iPhone.

This drone use two cameras to know its position and then to build Augmented Reality. The drone is robust against the wind. It can transform its surrounding into augmented reality for iPhone.

It is said that the AR Drone is future of AR gaming industry.

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More about the Drone can be seen from IEEE Spectrum article.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The way robot play music in 2009

I read two articles from IEEE Spectrum. One is from John Boyd about robot which can play music. The robot play flute. The other is the videos of the robot. The robot is from Takanishi Laboratory in Waseda University, Japan.

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The robot learns music from human.

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The robot plays music.

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It is a wonderful breakthrough in machine intelligence.

To make an orchestra, a person should cooperate with others. I hope research in machine intelligence and swarm intelligence can make a better performance the next 10-20 years.