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Leaked Video Reveals New Boston Dynamics Robot That Can Perform Amazing Stunts on Two Wheels
If this new leaked footage is any indication, it seems like the robot creators at Boston Dynamics finally found a way to improve on humanity’s primitive two-legged design: By adding a pair of wheels to their new self-balancing robot, giving the bot some impressive new capabilities.
Jump to 3:45 for the wheeled bot.
Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber – Deep learning neural network researcher
How do I not know this guy ?!
Since age 15 or so, the main goal of professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself, then retire.
[via idsia.ch ]
EU is looking into the need to give robots/AI person hood in the eye of the law…
MEPs have called for the adoption of comprehensive rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots.
The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a “new industrial” robot revolution.
It looks at whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons”.
Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends.
Meanwhile users should be able to use robots “without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm”, it states.
Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.
But questioned the need to give future robots legal status.
[via BBC]
90 hacker friendly boards
Our New Year’s guide to hacker-friendly single board computers turned up 90 boards, ranging from powerful media playing rigs to power-sipping IoT platforms.
Community backed, open spec single board computers running Linux and Android sit at the intersection between the commercial embedded market and the open source maker community. Hacker boards also play a key role in developing the Internet of Things devices that will increasingly dominate our technology economy in the coming years, from home automation devices to industrial equipment to drones.
Acoustic Tractor Beam
Tractor Beams are mysterious waves that can attract particles towards the source. Here, we will show you how to build an Acoustic Tractor Beam with components that can be bought directly on the Internet for less than 75$.
With this Instructable you will be able to get in your hands a device that it was only seen on SciFi movies such as Star Wars or Star Trek.
An art project on e-waste
Behind the Smart World from Andreas Zingerle on Vimeo.
“We Need Free Thinkers Or Society Will Shrivel Up and Die”
Artists, writers, poets, activists, journalists, philosophers, dancers, musicians, actors, and renegades must be tolerated if a culture is to be pulled back from disaster.
By Chris Hedges
ESP8266 notes 10-12-16 – Problem uploading sketch – MEM CHECK FAIL
Discovered an issue when I attempted to upload a sketch for the ESP8266 that results in a MEM CHECK FAIL error message. The fix is to make sure there is no load on the GPIO pins.
Life is better with Open Source
In my humble opinion ….