Sep 16, 2007
EU researchers implanted an artificial cerebellum inside a robot
Roland Piquepaille reports that "An international team of European researchers has implanted an artificial cerebellum - the portion of the brain that controls motor functions - inside a robotic system. This EU-funded project is dubbed SENSOPAC, an acronym for "SENSOrimotor structuring of perception and action for emerging cognition". One of the goals of this project is to design robots able to interact with humans in a natural way. This project, which should be completed at the end of 2009, also wants to produce robots which would act as home-helpers for disabled people, such as persons affected by neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease."
SENSOPAC website
22:39 Posted in AI & robotics | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: robotics, artificial intelligence
Phone calling from Second Life
Via Textually.org
C/net reports that BT is developing services that will enable users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. "To test the technology it has built a private island in Second Life, which it has dubbed Area 21 - a play on the ultra-secret Area 51 and BT's 21CN network technology, which is being used in the service"
22:21 Posted in Telepresence & virtual presence | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: virtual worlds