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Cool stuff! But some of it makes say, “Why?”

TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future.

3DSeek from Imagenistics

Search for 3D objects by sketching. Pretty cool! (Thanks, Nathanael Miller!)

3DSeek.

MCAD Industry View - A May 2006 Update

My friend Russ Henke and his colleague Jack Horgan provide not only a careful analysis of the MCAD industry, but also a far-ranging view of the global economic context, with strong opinions. A fascinating read!

MCAD Industry View - A May 2006 Update

Popular Mechanics - Report on the 2006 IEEE Robotics conference

Fascinating brief update with links

A Meeting Of The Metal Minds

ORLANDO, Fla — Robots vacuum our homes, search for landmines, perform surgery, and explore Mars. They’ve been taught to dance, play chess, arm wrestle, and ballroom dance. For all of this service and goodwill toward men, robots deserve credit, but fictional and cinematic slams are the norm. You know the plot: Machines rebel, humanity is enslaved, and Asimov rolls in his grave.

One hears of no such silliness at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), held this week at the Walt Disneyworld Hilton in Orlando, Florida. One of the largest conferences of its type, ICRA attracts more than a thousand leading roboticists from North America, Europe, Japan, Japan, and Japan. This year’s theme is “Humanitarian Robotics.” If you’re willing to brave presentations with titles such as “Force Tracking Control for Constrained Robot with Uncertainties”—and can stomach industrial-grade linear algebra before you’ve finished your morning coffee—this is the place for learning the latest on robotics. ICRA draws the scientists, programmers, and engineers who really have their heads under the hoods. Or torsos. Or . . . you get the idea.

Popular Mechanics - A Meeting Of The Metal Minds.

Two interesting blogs by Bob

http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/

http://artifacturing.blogspot.com/

Two interesting blogs by Bob

http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/

http://artifacturing.blogspot.com/

Zee News - India to embark upon robotics, remote tech weapons: PM

Clearly this is a big and important trend in warfare.

Zee News - India to embark upon robotics, remote tech weapons: PM.

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Korea Unveils World's Second Android

'Intelligent' Robots Hold Rich Potential for Korea
R2D2 May Soon be Your Household Companion
Korea's Smart Robot Ambitions Catch Int'l Attention
October to See Venture Into Space-Age Robot Utopia
Korea has developed its own android capable of facial expressions on its humanoid face, the second such machine to be developed after one from Japan. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy invited some 60 children to the Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan in Seoul to introduce Ever-1 to the public. The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the "r" in robot.

The Korean Institute for Industrial Technology (KITECH) said the android, which has the face and body of a woman in her 20s, is 160 cm tall and weighs 50 kg. Ever-1 can move its upper body and “express” happiness, anger, sadness and pleasure.

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea.

Nanotechnology: Economics

Economic Impact of the Personal Nanofactory
by Robert A. Freitas Jr.

Deflationary forces resulting from mass availability of desktop personal nanofactories can be opposed by inflationary forces competently initiated by governmental monetary authorities.


Originally published in Nanotechnology Perceptions: A Review of Ultraprecision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Volume 2, No. 2, May 8, 2006. Reprinted with permission on KurzweilAI.net, May 8, 2006.

Is the advent of, and mass availability of, desktop personal nanofactories (PNs) [1] likely to cause deflation (a persistent decline in the general prices of goods and services), inflation (a persistent general price increase), or neither?

KurzweilAI.net.