Saw this photo on Facebook.
Thought this was just too excellent.
Yes, a new hybrid car.
– The chassis goes one way.
– The passenger compartment goes the other way.
Was the engineer on hallucinogenics?
Or perhaps, this is some super secret new technology for easy parallel parking.
Think about it, if the car is driverless than what difference does it make anyway? 😉
(Source Photo: Facebook)
Had some fun driving around this cool little Robot in Rockville Town Center.
I like to try out the latest gadgets.
It’s funny people’s reactions when they see these.
They’re still not quite sure what to make of these.
Robots on the street.
Drones overhead.
Submersibles in the water.
Soon they will all be autonomous, ubiquitous, and essential.
And people will be the side attraction. 😉
(Source Video: Dossy Blumenthal)
I love FANUC industrial robots.
They are made by a secretive company in Japan and they are #1 in workplace automation worldwide!
They have over half a million installed industrial robots around the world.
Their robots are on assembly lines making everything from “cars and smartphones to beverages and drugs.” They also are in Tesla and Amazon…so you know they are pretty much everywhere.
FANUC has customers in 108 countries supported by 263 service locations.
Their robots are made by…that’s right other robots…80% is automated.
These robots are strong, fast, and precise, and they can do dangerous work.
This company is the future of jobs, productivity, efficiency.
But of course, people are still the brains behind the brawn. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
This is one incredible video.
It shows the killing power of micro killer drones.
With a host of cameras and other sensors including facial recognition and GPS, plus a small amount of explosives, these drones can target individuals or critical infrastructure and take them out!
The drones can work alone or in swarms to get into and kill or destroy anything.
No VIP (very important person) or CIP (critical infrastructure protected) is safe.
We can wipe out entire cities or the nuclear infrastructure of our enemies.
Despite the warning about artificial intelligence at the end of this video, rest assured these killer microdrones are coming.
Big is the new small, and small is the new big.
In fact, big things come in small packages–exactly!
Iran and North Korea are chasing obsolete technology to harm the U.S. and Israel, and within a short time, they will see the error of their malevolent ways
G-d foretells us all in the Bible and like David and Goliath–a slingshot to the forehead and the fight with the evil is over. 😉
(Thank you to Itzchak for sharing this video with me).
Quantum Computing (QC) + Artificial Intelligence (AI) = Singularity (S)
Quantum Computing – Computers using subatomic particles to superprocess atincredible speeds and with less energy–it’s similar to massive parallel processing, but in the case of Qubits, they can store more than just 1s and 0s (bits–a binary state), but rather can be both o and 1 at the same time (a “superposition”). So for very large problems (“exponential scaling”), instead of processing (computing one step at a time), you can process all options simultaneously to find the very best (“optimized”) solution by eliminating all options that don’t fit the algorithm.
Artificial Intelligence – Computers simulate intelligence, using language, perceiving their environment, reasoning to draw conclusions, solving problems usually done by humans, being creative, and where they can actually learn and self-improve!
Singularity – A state of runaway hypergrowth from the attainment of computing superintelligence, where computers are able to autonomously build ever smarter and more powerful machines that surpass human understanding and control leading to unfathomable changes to human civilization.
The Information Age is giving way to the Intelligence Age, and it is all ready to explode.
We are getting to the point of no return…
(Source Photo: Screenshot from YouTube with attribution to the move, Lucy“)
While da Vinci is fully controlled by the surgeon, this Drone from Drexel University that can turn valves, or door knobs and other controls, is on the road to doing this autonomously.
Think of robots that can manipulate the environment around them not on a stationary assembly line or doing repetitive tasks, but actually interacting real-time to open/close, turn things on/off, adjust control settings, pick things up/move them, eventually even sit at a computer or with other people–like you or I–and interface with them.
Drones and robots will be doing a lot more than surveillance and assembly line work–with artifical intelligence and machine learning, they will be doing what we do–or close enough. 😉
I took this photo in downtown Washington, D.C.
Unlike the Google Car, which is purported to drive itself…this one let’s the rider sit on top (that’s a joke people)!
Doesn’t matter if you bend the roof with your butt.
The view is much better from on high, and it’s oh so comfortable on the white aluminum with your pants bottom shining it up.
Maybe this is a give-a-way for the next carathon or something equally prizeworthy. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
The military air fleet of the U.S., U.K., and Australia already have installed such devices to protect them.
Another system by Northrop Grumman is installed for heads of state like on Air Force One and Germany has ordered it for their Chancellor’s plane.
But the Elbit C-Music is being used already on Israel’s commercial airlines, El AL and Israir.
The thermal targeting device of C-Music uses a precise laser to deflect the incoming heat seeking ground to air missiles and save the passengers and plane.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a bill to mandate such devices for American commercial airlines would cost approximately $43 billion over 20 years.
While this system would not work against the type of sophisticated multiple launch rocket systems that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, it would go along way to enhance our anti-terrorism measures and protect Americans and other travelers coming to/from the U.S.
Please don’t shoot down this idea… 😉
So robots have reached the clouds before many of our government agencies have–who would’ve thought?
Bloomberg Businessweek reports how robotic activities are being stored in the cloud and are then accessible to other robots to learn from and repeat as necessary.
The “cloud servers essentially [are] a shared brain” where memories and experiences are uploaded and accessed by other robots with a need to know the same thing.
The cloud is the means of transfer learning from one robot to the other.
It serves like a master neural network where the Internet provides the how-to for everything from serving juice to patients in a hospital to functioning as autonomous warbots in battle.
Like the Borg on Star Trek with a collective brain, the cloud may become the mastermind for everything from day-to-day functioning to taking over the species of the universe.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Absolutely amazing development in robotics…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Harvard University researchers have developed autonomous robots inspired by termites or ants.
They can build complex structures by working in a group or swarm.
Each robot is independent, yet by being programmed with the target structure, they work harmoniously together to build the structure without further guidance.
They have sensors along with a set of rules that enable them to interact with each other and the environment to get the job done.
They can even build stairs to enable themselves to get to higher levels of the structure and add the next set of building bricks.
The robots are 8″ by 4.5″ with pinwheel tires for traction and are powered by off-the-shelf motors.
“Each robot ‘walks around the structure until it sees something that needs to be done and then does it…they can recognize errors and correct them.'”
Perhaps, the robots can not only learn from the termites, but we can learn from the robots. 😉
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