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Monkeys Navigate a wheelchair with their thoughts

 

 

In this article it shows how at Duke university scientists have been making progress in Brain interface technology. A team of scientist lead by professor named  Miguel Nicolelis. In this article it shows how his team made a breakthrough with the brain interface. It says how they connected the brain interface to the monkey and was able to control the wheel chair with his or hers thoughts.

 

 

I personally don't believe that monkeys are getting smarter than humans because we are just evolved versions of the monkeys.       

 



cybernetic third arm for drummers.

In this article published by Evan Ackerman posted February 18 2016. This article starts of stating that a professor at Georgia Tech had designed and created a robotic arm for a former drummer who had his arm amputated. Later it would be used as a third arm while drumming to project more sound, The article states how the robotic arm works by watching the human drummer. Robot will track a wrist band that the human drummer will ware while performing the task. The author of this article dose not have much faith in this arm considering that its main use is for drumming. If you ask me there always at least two ways to use or do something.            

Drones recognise and follow forest trails in search of lost people

 

 

 

 

In this article it talks about how new drones who are designed to find lost travelers and patrol the forest trails. According to recent research the rate for missing hikers has raisin from the last year. Scientist are still working on these patrol drones, and will still take time to perfect.  

Robotics in the military

In this documentary the narrator talks about how robotics are quickly becoming more reliable in the battle field. The first time a military used robots was during world war 1, was a small drone that can be controlled by a cable, the drone had a many explosives in it, enough to bring down a small building. This drone was created by the Germans.




       Years later the first drone for urban warfare were the SWORDS, small drones with a front and back camera, also equipped with high caliber machine gun. The next stage of the urban warfare for drone was a updated version of the sword that can move fast has front, back, and side cameras, equipped with a high caliber machine gun, grenade launcher, and a high powered sniper rifle. Toward the end of the video military officials were saying how robots will always be controlled by a human and not thinking for it self. 

Final part of robotics documentry

In the final part of the video the narrator talks about how some robotics groups or companies are working on humanoids (robots that look and move like humans). In this video I saw how some scientist are talking about A.I. (artificial intelligence), they are saying how AI are in almost everything, there in the ATMs. Also a scientist in Japan is saying how machines should stay machines, how a machine should have intelligence not be caution.         

2014 the year of robotics for apple and amazon

In this article it talks about how Amazon has announced that they will be offering their amazon prime air service. This service is a small drone that takes packages to clients (package has to be 5 pounds or less). Amazon says how the air service would be legally-flight ready. This has been a long process because the Avilation Administration are still making rules to allow companies to use drones.

  Apple is investing a big part of it's $10.5 billion of capital expenditures for 2014 in factoring robotics to help the production of iPad, iphone and other apple products. All this information was reporte in November by Bloomberg. Following the November purchase of Israel-based prime scene, announced they may also develop new artificial intelligence innovations. These innovations also helped design the 3-D depth sensors for the Microsoft Kinect on the Xbox 360. Google also ha a busy 2013 acquiring eight robotic engineering companies, and two of those firms bought by the tech giant proved their worth by earning the top two score at the robotics challenge trials obstacles course managed by the Defense advanced projects agency.