by admin | Jan 27, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
There are already 9 million robots on our planet. They are developing so rapidly, it’s like the arrival of a new species. What has taken humans millennia, robots have achieved in just decades. Now they are tackling their greatest challenge, trying to think like...
by admin | Jan 26, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
fig.1 Eric, Britain's first robotImage by NPR, 2016 In the West, it’s a different story. Many people are afraid of robots and I want to know where this fear comes from. This is Eric, a scary, mechanical man born in 1928. He is the very first British robot. He is...
by admin | Jan 25, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
This blog is a transcription of the BBC documentary “Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots” and is part of my research on robotics in preparation for the Open University TM129 module ‘Technologies in Practice’. ‘In labs across the world we...
by admin | Jan 25, 2020 | Computing and IT
The following blog is a compilation of exerpts from Open University text modules TM111 and TM129 and serves as a mean to better help me understand and remember certain physical and computing principles and ideas, and therefore all credit goes to the Open University...
by admin | Jan 24, 2020 | Computing and IT
The following blog is a compilation of exerpts from Open University text modules TM111 and TM129 and serves as a mean to better help me understand and remember certain physical and computing principles and ideas, and therefore all credit goes to the Open University...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
Nabi and Alphred are two of the latest examples, in the fields of bipedal and humanoid robots developed by RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at UCLA. This is a transcript of the TC Sessions Robotics 2018 demonstration given by by Dennis Hall, professor...