Summer

One of the most interesting summers i've had so far.
Summer in Athens 2005....
-chairball-resume impressions-noam tokman-in the pool at 2:30 am-phil of the future-kickball tournament champions-wild horse cafe -mothman statue-slurpees-steve commons-moonville-bottomless bowls of chili-chipotle

Thanks for keeping track - holko.

Qrio

Its hard to really put in a paragraph what the qrio is about. So here's a quote: "...The head of it is the most sensitive component, as it contains the two camera that enable QRIO's all-important stereo vision. QRIO understands this and does everything it can to protect it. In the rare times that it does feel itself moving to a fall, it moves very quickly to shift its weight to correct it. If the needed correction is too large it will then move to fall on its arms, thus protecting its head.

Interestingly, when they're doing demonstrations, they have found that the AI in QRIO is so strong that if you haven't been friendly with it before hand, for examples, by not kicking back a football it kicks to you, it will refuse to do what you ask it in the demonstration. Effectively it is expressing its annoyance...."

speaking of demonstrations: here are some from sony's website: click here

It can see in 3d,walk, sing, recognize and remember people, and pretty much anything. it can also carry on conversations with you by keeping track of what you like and dislike. such AI already exists on the internet but combining so may features in such a little robot is just out of the world.

Check out the four major technologies involved with the qrio.

The qrio is a mobile robot and that means it has to be away from the charger which means it needs to be battery charged and a very high capacity one at that because of the immense amount of power required by its sensors, motors and processors. The maximum time it can get away with is an hour. So how does it charge itself? using magnetic induction through this chair! When it gets low on power, it sits on the chair to charge itself!


And to top it off: watch the qrio Get jiggy wit it!

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