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by gene-h 11y ago
So will we finally get the eyetap?
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by gene-h 11y ago
So in short, you are monetizing procrastination?
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Scientific American has a great article on why airships will probably not be part of our transportation infrastructure[0]. In short the energy required to move a specified payload is about the same as that of an airplane, but the payload ge
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by gene-h 11y ago
It might be helpful to elaborate on what applications a 3d ultrasound scanner would have.
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by gene-h 11y ago
part of the reason thermal cameras are cheap and ultrasounds are not is that thermal cameras have consumer uses. One can use thermal cameras for hunting or determining home energy efficiency, an ultrasound can pretty much only be used for m
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by gene-h 11y ago
The part at 1:23 is not that impressive. It is a carefully controlled lab environment, all flat surfaces, no obstacles, with a cubical box that has carefully placed AR tags which tell of the box's exact position and orientation. Not to
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by gene-h 11y ago
The biggest problem is that we still don't understand the principles of walking, locomotion, and manipulation. Biology doesn't come with any documentation. This is much more than the problem of not having good sensors, not having
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by gene-h 11y ago
Here's a bit more on the specs of MIT's design: http://hyperloop.mit.edu/ From the lift to drag ratio(14) and cruising speed provided(110 m/s), we can compare it's performance to other forms of transport
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by gene-h 11y ago
Title is a bit misleading, what they were doing was a lot closer to a precursor to calculus.
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by gene-h 11y ago
Now the question is, how applicable are the approaches developed for AlphaGo to other tree search problems? The beating a professional Go player with less evaluations than it took Deep Blue to beat Kasparov is certainly very exciting.
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NASA is currently trying to do something like that: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/haw...
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by gene-h 11y ago
Perhaps one of the "stubby hubble" telescopes the NRO donated to NASA would be useful for this task[0]. They are essentially the hubble telescope with a much shorter focal length(hence the nickname), so one of the uses suggested f
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by gene-h 11y ago
Of course, the author seems to be ignoring the fact that 3d printers can't make everything and will not for the foreseeable future. Not to mention, the issue with some of the 3d printing processes themselves being patented.
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by gene-h 11y ago
They are here right now, you can buy them at walmart. But the tech that could change everything is HP's new printer. It prints strong parts fast in color. If HP doesn't fuck it up(they probably will), they could have them in walma
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by gene-h 11y ago
Well if congress is really that cheap, perhaps someone should make a kickstarter to buy back our government.
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by gene-h 11y ago
In my opinion, I don't think inflatable robots are very practical.(except for niche applications) One of the most important things in robotics is reliability, the more work your robot does before breaking down or needing maintenance th
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by gene-h 11y ago
If it is like the original big dog then it doesn't use electric motors/actuators it uses hydraulics that are driven by the gas engine.[0] Supposedly it gets ~0.5 miles per gallon. [0] http://www.bostondynamics.com/
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by gene-h 11y ago
You should check out the idea of function structures. Functions structures are a symbolic means of representing the functions a electromechanical product must perform in order to do its job.[0] The cool thing about function structures is th
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by gene-h 11y ago
So can you prevent javascript in the browser from accessing android sensors without permission now?
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Well a much better way to do optical guidance would be to do what some cruise missiles do, look at the ground below and find the most similar image in a big database of aerial photographs. The insane thing about this approach is that it was
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by gene-h 11y ago
Japan has hardly lost the robot race. Why? Well japanese robotics companies held ~61% of the industrial robot marketshare in 2011[0]. Second, they're a big producer of actuators for robots, so they're in a good position to supply
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by gene-h 11y ago
It's not trivial. Imagine trying to computationally model this. And this does have practical applications too, better understanding of how ants flow in aggregates could have applications in modular robotics and claytronics. https:&#x2
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by gene-h 11y ago
It appears you are assuming 100% efficiency for conversion of solar energy. The maximum efficiency possible for solar cells is the carnot efficiency at 86%.
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by gene-h 11y ago
Plants suck at solar conversion. Plants are typically 3-6% efficient at converting solar energy, while commercially available solar cells are 14-19% efficient. We even have solar cells in the lab that are 44.4% efficient.
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It has been found that various organisms can degrade carbon nanotubes, so they won't irreversibly permeate the ecosystem[0]. But we really shouldn't be dumping them into the air. [0] http://www.nature.com/nnano&#x2
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I don't know what definition of carbon nanotube includes something with a long chain of carbon, but in general carbon nanotubes refers to tiny tube structures composed of aromatic carbon( carbon connected to 3 other carbons). Vehicle e
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This is the first time they have been found in humans and not just engine exhaust. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Especially considering there have been some rather heated "anti-nanotechnology" protests in france
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Well if you really want to drive down the cost, the best thing to do would be to mass produce the actuators for the purpose. The actuators MIT used aren't really intended as actuators, they're some weird part for moving knobs arou
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by gene-h 11y ago
Now the interesting thing to do would be to take one of these iceberg pictures for real. Since we can't see through this much see water the thing to do is make a huge grid of cameras and put it directly up against the iceberg. Alternat
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by gene-h 11y ago
well you can buy a chinese knock-off of the actuators the MIT people used from spark fun: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10976

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