Software / A.I.

The video surveillance system developed by BRS Labs, called Behavioral Analytics, is able to perform cognitive reasoning similar to human brain and learn autonomously with fewer errors than a usual object classification and video motion based software. The system analyzes and learns human behaviour patterns in a totally autonomous manner, including the surrounding scenes without needing any human calibration or programming. It does this by […] Read More

IBM has received a grant for a research project known as SYNAPSE, which stands for “Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics”, from DARPA. The goal of the project accordig to DARPA is to create intelligent machines, which will have the capability of analysing vast amount of data in a very short duration, and improve military’s decision making ability for a particular situation. Current machine […] Read More

Robot designing and building benefits greatly from common operating platforms, where different teams of designers can build on others work. Currently there exists quite a few operating systems, that have found use in many different applications and locations. See Robotic Magazine software page for a list that summarizes major systems. However, a common operating system such as windows for computers is not yet there for […] Read More

The Blue Brain project at Swizerland’s EPFL was launched in 2005, is looking into reverse engineering of the human brain.The team has been picking apart the sturcture of the neocortical column since 15 years and indexing all the types and shapes of connections, icluding their functionality, describing their rules of communication. The project is at the stage of constructing an artificial neocortical column, which has […] Read More

The software designed by scientists at the University of Oxford, enables the computer program to learn sign language just by watching hand gestures and subtitles displayed on TV. The algorithm first recognizes the gestures made by human signer. The software determines the rough location of hands by making use of arms and then identifies the flesh coloured pixels to determine precise hand shapes. The program […] Read More

As an upgrade to existing 2008 version robotics developer studio, microsoft has just released version 2008 R2. The new release includes new DSS Log Analyzer tool, enhanchements to Visual simulation environment, additions to the documentation and bug fixes. The express edition is available at no cost, and there are also the Academic and Sandard editions. One of the new features for version 2008 R2 is […] Read More

Sony XCI-SX100/XP Smart Camera Driven by eVF Lite Software Assembles Lawnmower EngineROSEMONT, Ill., June 9, 2009. Sony Electronics and Braintech Inc. are demonstrating a new robotic solution for performing precision assembly tasks at the 2009 International Robots & Vision Show. The demo features a Sony XCI-SX100/XP Smart Camera with an embedded PC running Braintech eVF Lite software to operate a Motoman HP20 robot and attach […] Read More

The recent study done by DARPA to uncover mysteries of human intelligence, approaches the subject from a different perspective. The study seeks to model how intelligence works by creating a new theory that is based on principles of thermodynamics. The laws of thermodynamics deal with the total energy within any given closed or open system, and it relates the work done and the heat produced […] Read More

British Scientists have created a robot navigation system that is based on visual recognition of a set of different objects in a particular scene,which enables the navigating robot recognize the location if it has been visited before. The robot does this by assigning a definitive description to the scene which consists of 1000 words, every two seconds. In addition, just like humans, the navigation system […] Read More

It is now a reality that after decades of computer history, we are nowhere near to a real artificial intelligence. This is not like the computer programmers of the past were probably envisioning our age. The common thought a couple decades ago was, as soon as the computers have enough processing capability, the Artificial Intelligence would emerge naturally. Yet we still have to see a […] Read More