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Autonomous car to climb Pikes Peak at racing speed

Looks like Stanford is going to tackle climbing Pikes Peak . It will not be the first autonomous car to climb Pikes Peak (a challenging 12.4-mile ascent that includes 156 turns and ends more than 14,000 feet above sea level) but they'll try to do...

Published 11-09-2009 9:46 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics , Adaptation

Robotics capabilities for the next decade

This video provides some impressive examples of the kinds of sensing and robotics capabilities being demonstrated today (e.g. throwing and catching a cell phone). If it takes a few years to make it into production, there are still some tremendous advances...

Published 10-30-2009 4:30 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics

Three laws of robots actually a human restriction

In Computer magazine , there was a recent article Beyond Asimov: The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics. This article addressed a perspective I've always had - Robots will need to have significantly more "perceptual and reasoning capabilities"...

Published 08-20-2009 2:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Robotics , Software Reliability , Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Agentry

Lunar X Prize for kids - Moonbots

There are many different competitions for children held across the globe to increase their science and math skills by building robots. Now there is an extension of the Google Lunar X Prize aimed at kids - Moonbots . Normally the X prizes only reward success...

Published 08-05-2009 11:09 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Robotics , Youth

Self-learning robot learns to walk

This article in the NewScientist describes the use of neural networks in allowing a robot to learn to use new leg features (e.g., joints). Neural networks are a computation technique that reinforces "good" behavior and learns to solve problems...

Published 02-20-2009 8:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Robotics , Vision

First Lego League Competition in Dallas

I mentioned a few weeks back that I was trained to be a judge for the FLL competition in Dallas. The contest took place this weekend and it was exciting and educational for the teams as well as the judges. I think all the judges were impressed with the...

Published 02-03-2009 5:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Robotics, Robotics , Youth

DARPA Challenge and the effect on business

I used to work in the Artificial Intelligence group EDS had in Detroit back in the 80s. We used to joke around that if we could do it, it was not artificial intelligence. The recent success of the DARPA Challenge shows that different approaches to the...

Published 10-19-2005 11:23 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Robotics , Agentry

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