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Internet of Things Will Morph To Internet of Humans: Neuralink

September 9, 2020September 22, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

In The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990), inventor and visionary computer scientist, Raymond Kurzweil predicted that there will be a huge increase in the use of technology and an exponential growth in the internet. And by mid-21st century, AI would overtake human brain in computational capabilities. Eventually it would lead to intelligence explosion resulting in a powerful super intelligence that qualitatively surpass all human intelligence.

Robot Fiction Defines Robotics: Japan vs The West

August 28, 2020September 17, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Skynet, Terminator or maybe Matrix these are the names that might come to our minds when we think of robots combined with artificial intelligence (AI). And what does these cults represent, fear!

No One Wants To Be A Part Of The Truman Show: Facial Recognition Technology

August 14, 2020August 28, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Internet based technologies are moving at a fast pace. At least within a decade we have witnessed an unprecedented enhancement when it comes to technologies behind remote working, digital education, IoT and biometric surveillance technology.

Hyperdimensional Computing System: Inspired from Cerebral Attributes of Neuronal Circuits

July 6, 2020July 7, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is the budding computational paradigm based on cognitive model which distillates to higher dimensionality and randomness.

Xenobot: AI is Pushing the Best Way to Construct Itself

June 6, 2020December 1, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Scientists at the University of Vermont, have created a new class of artifact, called xenobots. They have used frog’s stem cells to fabricate first living robots.

Caper Smart Shopping Cart (w/Video): Trolley with Deep Learning and Machine Vision

January 14, 2019May 29, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Autonomous, by far, has limited with the use of robotics or car but lately, the concept has encircled shopping carts as well. In the coming future, retail stores would offer “consumer has it all” experience by simply grabbing and going option.

Muscles Powered Biohybrid Devices: Robotics with Tissue Engineering

August 22, 2016August 21, 2016 Pooja Kashyap

Let’s picture the word, “Robot”, immediately, we get a glimpse of self operating machines, with nuts-and-bolts as building blocks. These machines are permeating all sections of our society. Machine human relationship has crossed the realms of science fiction. In fact, machine learning has become one of the most interesting and sought-after science, sprouting artificial intelligence (AI).

RoboRacing: Fusing AI with Automotive Technology

July 26, 2016 Pooja Kashyap

Driverless cars are the future of private transportation, where crashes are rare occurrences. Raj Nair, Ford’s head of product development claimed that the year 2020 will mark autonomous vehicle at SAE Level 4 [1 step below full automation] into the mainstream auto market.

Pepper Robot for Sale: World’s First Personal Bot the Reads Emotions

June 18, 2015 Pooja Kashyap

Softbank’s Pepper robot will be hitting stores by 20th of June that is coming Saturday. The robot is furnished with heart like designed that not only helps in identifying human emotions but reacting with simulations of anger, joy and irritation.

PR2 can prepare coffee autonomously: The Robo Barista

April 22, 2015 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at Cornell have unleashed PR2, a robot that can prepare coffee autonomously. All the bot require is coffee maker of course and a manual of natural language instructions.

Robots to Run Futuristic Japanese Hotel: Kokoro’s Actroids

February 11, 2015February 11, 2015 Neha Shukla

A hotel run by humanoid robots is no more a far fetched dream, especially from a country that is famous for robotics and technological innovation, Japan. The Henn-na Hotel located in Nagasaki plans to recruit 10 humanoid robot also named as actroid androids. These lifelike bots would greet the guests with a smile and would assist the guests by carrying their baggage, prepare coffee and even clean their rooms. Actroid, woman robot of Japanese descent Kokoro is the robotics company that is developing theses actroid robots since 2003 that looks…

Pepper selling Espresso Machines in Japan: Humanoid to collect Customers’ Opinions

December 1, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

George Clooney, the brand ambassador of Nespresso has a stiff competition now, I say stiff because the new face is cute, chatty & cuddly and it happens to be an android. Pepper is the name of the droid that Nestle has lately launched. It’s not just a single robot but a fleet to bots taking the Japanese stores. The four feet tall bot has a cute human like face mounted on top of a plastic body. The interface in tablet form is located at the chest of the machine while…

The Autonomous K5: A Bot for Predicting and Preventing Crime

November 20, 2014 Neha Shukla

Silicon Valley, the renowned center for invention and development, is always in news. Lately, Microsoft’s robo cop has been creating waves in the tech ocean of the Valley. Start-up, Knightscope has named its security robot K5. Makers of the robot using high tech robotics, predictive analytics and social engagement, wanted to use the bot in predicting and preventing crime. Till now, the company has designed seven robots and envisions positioning four more by the end of this year.

PIBOT will be the next Flying Captain: Humanoid Learns to Fly Real Airplanes

September 21, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Last week, we talked about NAO, the humanoid learning to steer wheels and now we have a similar humanoid that is learning to fly real planes. PIBOT is the name of the small and affordable humanoid that is ready to take off our expectations into the skies. PIBOT has been fabricated to operate a toned down, simulated aircraft cockpit. The intelligent synthetic creature is able to make out and use the entire controls comprising of buttons and switches present in the cockpit of a light aircraft that is especially designed…

Google’s First Quantum Computer: A Combination of D-Wave and Universal Gate-Model

September 16, 2014September 15, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Quantum logic gate based on qubits is what most of the quantum computing labs is working on to make the product a reality. However, these labs show no or less confidence in companies like D-Wave, the Canadian based that came out with world’s first commercially available quantum computer functioning on 128-qubit chipset, in 2011. Lately, in an interesting turn of events, Google went a step ahead by hiring a team of researchers for building their initial Google quantum computer using quantum annealing as per the D-Wave approach than the conventional…