Archives for the 'Inventions' Category
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 [...]
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Robotic Toddler? WHY???
Published on 18 Dec 2007 at 3:14 am.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Seriously???, Technology.
Tonight on the Colbert Report, I learned of a Japanese research project to make a robotic toddler. I am sorry, but not only am I not at all sure why one would endeavor to do this, but I am also not sure why one would choose this particular design.
With all due respect to the researchers [...]
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Walking LEGO Machines
Published on 11 Dec 2007 at 1:15 am.
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Filed under Fun, Inventions, Lego, Mathematics, Robotics, Technology.
On Philippe ”Philo” Hurbain’s LEGO site, I found these amazing 8-legged LEGO walkers. Here you can find a movie of this walker… its very impressive!
These are designed after Theo Jansen’s amazing walking kinetic sculptures that are powered by wind or solar power. Here are some great videos of these Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures.
Here are two [...]
Walking Tree Harvesters
Published on 1 Dec 2007 at 11:14 pm.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Robotics, Technology.
Some time ago I saw YouTube videos of walking tree harvesting machines. These are made by John Deere and are being used in Finland. These walking machines can maneuver in forests much more easily than wheeled vehicles and cause far less damage.
Enjoy the videos.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Why Intelligent Machines Appear Intelligent (or Not)
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 5:58 am.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Information, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, Programming, Research, Robotics, Technology.
I have been working for about 48 hours (straight with intermittent cat naps) on my robotic arm, which is equipped with a point light sensor. I have re-programmed it to characterize polygons as well as circles. However, the main purpose of this research project is to develop an inquiry engine that is generally engineered to [...]
