Thursday, May 29, 2008
Humanoids
Humanoids are the robots built to look like people and do tasks that are meant for the common man.The most famour example is the bot built by HONDA which is called Asimo after the great scientist. It is the years of hard work and millions of yen spent to create a single humanoid robots but the coming of nano technology has revolutionsied the process. This is just an initial post we will discuss more of it later on.Enjoy the video on the home page. Its fun.
AI what is it??
There have been countless Hollywood flicks that show robots which were supposedly designed to help humans in their day to day life revolt and enslave or kill their masters. We wonder from where did they get such a kind of idea. Aint they just programed to do a certain set of tasks. Basically, yes . But these kind of robots can only be used for a specific kind of purpose. They cannot adapt themselves to the environment if any other kind of situtaion arises which is not present in their programming.Their they have a need to analyse the situation and act accordingly. For example if we have a household robot which cooks food and maintains the house, it cannot be resilent if a fire breaks out in the house or nearby, it must immediately act consequently. If a robot is made aware of such kind of innumerable things and has a lot of flexibility built into its programming such that it acts appropriately to any type of situation then we call it artifical intelligence since its behaviour is replicating that of a human being. We have seen the interface named "VIKKI" which acts for the greater good of the mankind in the hit movie "I,ROBOT" which stars Will Smith and explains the 3 laws for robots. But AI is now a reality and are in a very progressive stage of development.
There is this site which will give us all we need to know about Artifical Intelligence
Smart Machines : The German Touch
One of the most exciting branches of Germany’s mechanical engineering industry is robotics and automation. Encompassing a broad range of sophisticated products, this industrial sub-sector represents the cutting edge of technological development. German firms working in this field have been utilizing the country’s advanced research and development resources to come up with new applications for markets clear across the economic spectrum, from the automotive sector to medicine.
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The past two years have brought significant gains for German robotics and automation companies. From 2005 to 2006, sales rose 6 percent to €7.3 billion. That accounts for about 4.5 percent of totalsales volume in the German mechanical engineering industry as a whole. For 2007, the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) estimated that sales of German-made robotics and automation technology would reach €7.9 billion, an increase of 8 percent.
Over 60 percent of sales in this sub-sector are generated by handling and assembly products, followed by robots (23 percent) and industrial imaging – or “machine vision” – technology (15 percent). The largest export markets for German handling and assembly equipment are the United States, France, Italy, and China.
Among the most prominent trends in the German robotics and automation sector is the broadening of the customer base beyond the automotive industry. The VDMA cited this development as the chief factor responsible for sales growth in 2006 within the German robotics sector.
Particularly noteworthy was the increased demand for robots from the metalworking, furniture, and plastics industries. Some 48 percent of all sales by German robot suppliers in 2006 went to buyers from outside the automotive sector.
The fastest growing product segment for German robotics and automation companies in 2006 was machine vision technology. This small but important segment recorded a 9 percent sales increase across the board. Most of that growth was generated by a surge in demand for “configurable” systems, which can be adapted to support changing production needs. Sales of such systems – which integrate cameras, computers, and software – jumped a full 45 percent.
Aside from its role as a supplier of topnotch robotics and automation products to the world, Germany itself also represents a huge market for such products. The country’s share of all industrial robots installed in Europe in 2006 amounted to 36 percent. Altogether, nearly 130,000 industrial robots are currently operating in Germany, more than in any other country except Japan.
Looking to the future, German engineers and researchers are actively shaping the industry’s development through a series of collaborative ventures with international partners. One of these promising projects was unveiled last October at the newly founded Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) at the University of Bielefeld. In cooperation with the Japanese technology company Honda, CoR-Lab has become Europe‘s first university-based institution to utilize Honda’s state-of-the-art ASIMO humanoid robot as a research platform. The institute is focusing its research on artificial perception and neurological motion control systems.
The CoR-Lab institute and dozens of others like it around Germany are being supported with generous public funding. Federal and state authorities in Germany are pouring millions of euros into research and development aimed at spawning viable industrial ventures.
© Gerber/Fraunhofer IuK (copywrited)
The past two years have brought significant gains for German robotics and automation companies. From 2005 to 2006, sales rose 6 percent to €7.3 billion. That accounts for about 4.5 percent of totalsales volume in the German mechanical engineering industry as a whole. For 2007, the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) estimated that sales of German-made robotics and automation technology would reach €7.9 billion, an increase of 8 percent.
Over 60 percent of sales in this sub-sector are generated by handling and assembly products, followed by robots (23 percent) and industrial imaging – or “machine vision” – technology (15 percent). The largest export markets for German handling and assembly equipment are the United States, France, Italy, and China.
Among the most prominent trends in the German robotics and automation sector is the broadening of the customer base beyond the automotive industry. The VDMA cited this development as the chief factor responsible for sales growth in 2006 within the German robotics sector.
Particularly noteworthy was the increased demand for robots from the metalworking, furniture, and plastics industries. Some 48 percent of all sales by German robot suppliers in 2006 went to buyers from outside the automotive sector.
The fastest growing product segment for German robotics and automation companies in 2006 was machine vision technology. This small but important segment recorded a 9 percent sales increase across the board. Most of that growth was generated by a surge in demand for “configurable” systems, which can be adapted to support changing production needs. Sales of such systems – which integrate cameras, computers, and software – jumped a full 45 percent.
Aside from its role as a supplier of topnotch robotics and automation products to the world, Germany itself also represents a huge market for such products. The country’s share of all industrial robots installed in Europe in 2006 amounted to 36 percent. Altogether, nearly 130,000 industrial robots are currently operating in Germany, more than in any other country except Japan.
Looking to the future, German engineers and researchers are actively shaping the industry’s development through a series of collaborative ventures with international partners. One of these promising projects was unveiled last October at the newly founded Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) at the University of Bielefeld. In cooperation with the Japanese technology company Honda, CoR-Lab has become Europe‘s first university-based institution to utilize Honda’s state-of-the-art ASIMO humanoid robot as a research platform. The institute is focusing its research on artificial perception and neurological motion control systems.
The CoR-Lab institute and dozens of others like it around Germany are being supported with generous public funding. Federal and state authorities in Germany are pouring millions of euros into research and development aimed at spawning viable industrial ventures.
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