Robots And Tech

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Reading robots' minds

A new visualization system developed by MIT researchers, combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot's intentions in real time. (Learn more about the system: http://bit.ly/1thQBSQ)

The researchers say the system may help speed up the development of self-driving cars, package-delivering drones, and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles.

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional footage and computer animations: Shayegan Omidshafiei

Behold The Future (E011 NASA's Superhuman Robot)

An UPHIGH Production. NASA's Valkyrie DRC 'Superhuman Robot'.
NASA has created a robot for DARPA's upcoming Robotics Challenge Trials. The Valkyrie is a 6-foot-2-inch humanoid machine with detachable arms, sonar sensors, mounted cameras, and a glowing Tony Stark-esque circle in the middle of its chest. The space agency says it's mobile and dexterous enough to enter disaster zones to provide search and rescue functions.

NASA JSC - R5 Valkyrie Robot Unveiled [720p]

NASA JSC - R5 Valkyrie Robot Unveiled [720p] NASA JSC - R5 Valkyrie Robot Unveiled [720p]

NASA JSC - R5 Valkyrie Robot Unveiled [720p]

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Special exploration Robot.MOV

Special exploration Robot.MOV
by Momoka Murata
http://ashitanohako.com/

NASA_ Propylene On Titan.

With a thick atmosphere, clouds, a rain cycle and giant lakes, Saturn's large moon Titan is a surprisingly Earthlike place. But unlike on Earth, Titan's surface is far too cold for liquid water - instead, Titan's clouds, rain, and lakes consist of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane (which exist as gases here on Earth). When these hydrocarbons evaporate and encounter ultraviolet radiation in Titan's upper atmosphere, some of the molecules are broken apart and reassembled into longer hydrocarbons like ethylene and propane.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft first revealed the presence of several species of atmospheric hydrocarbons when it flew by Titan in 1980, but one molecule was curiously missing - propylene, the main ingredient in plastic number 5.