onsdag 28 april 2010

Over 1,100 people attend ABB Technology Days to learn about robotic technology.


2010-04-28 - The two-day event at ABB’s USA, Auburn Hills, MI training facility featured live, on-floor demonstrations and seminars from ABB Robotics and its technology partners... [read the full article]


ABB robots for manufacturing success - practising what we preach


2010-04-28 - ABB actively promotes the use of industrial robots in manufacturing; but it is also "walking the talk" by using them to manufacture its own products.... [read the full article]


söndag 25 april 2010

Brain-like computing on an organic molecular layer


One big advantage a brain's circuitry has always had over a computer's is its ability to evolve as it tackles complex problems. Now, scientists have created a tiny computing device with a brain-like "evolutionary circuit."... [read the full article]


Car steered with eyes, computer scientists demonstrate


"Keep your eyes on the road!" Scientists in Germany have given a completely new meaning to this standard rule for drivers: Using software they developed, they can steer a car with their eyes.... [read the full article]


tisdag 20 april 2010

ABB robots increase productivity by 43% for Australian engineering company.


2010-04-20 - Producing perfect aluminium welds and eliminating harmful dust during polishing operations has been achieved by the robotic solutions supplied to Frontline Australasia Pty.Ltd in Melbourne by authorised ABB Partner CSF (Complete Surface Finishing).... [read the full article]


söndag 18 april 2010

Patients gain limb movement years after stroke with help of robotic aids


A clinical study has found that stroke patients can regain limb movement long after an injury through intensive therapy with specially trained personnel and newly created robotic aids.... [read the full article]


fredag 2 april 2010

Grand unified theory of AI: New approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in artificial-intelligence research


In the 1950s and '60s, artificial-intelligence researchers saw themselves as trying to uncover the rules of thought. But those rules turned out to be way more complicated than anyone had imagined. Since then, artificial-intelligence (AI) research has come to rely, instead, on probabilities -- statistical patterns that computers can learn from large sets of training data. The probabilistic approach has been responsible for most of the present progress in artificial intelligence, such as voice recognition systems, or the system that recommends movies to Netflix subscribers. But MIT research scientist Noah Goodman thinks that AI gave up too much when it gave up rules. By combining the old rule-based systems with insights from the new probabilistic systems, Goodman has found a way to model thought that could have broad implications for both AI and cognitive science.... [read the full article]


World record: Largest simulation of an ideal quantum computer


A quantum computer could provide an tremendous enhancement in the handling speed of existing computers. However, as yet they only exist in the laboratory in the form of small prototypes with a capacity of a few bits. They can now be explored in more detail, at least in simulations. The Julich supercomputer JUGENE can now simulate the largest quantum computer system in the world with 42 bits.... [read the full article]