“Ghost or Self Portrait” 2011, Charles Hobbs This piece is a robotic sculpture that autonomously roam throughout the gallery. The piece is basically a human-sized armature standing on two “bristle-bots” to provide simple, yet effective locomotion. Turning and obstacle avoidance is achieved by using two ultrasonic sensors to “read” the distance between it and the nearest object and turning “off” the motor of the opposite foot when the distance is less than 3′. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Lytro Founder Ren Ng has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO and will be transitioning into the company’s Executive Chairman effective immediately. Charles Chi, the current Executive Chairman, has been named interim CEO until a more permanent CEO has been found.
Ng will remain a full-time employee but will shift his focus to product 100 percent, according to his blog post.
I will remain a full-time employee, 100% focused on Lytro. In my new role I will shift attention from day-to-day operations, to focus again on product vision, technology, and strategic direction for the company. I am very excited to have the opportunity to focus on these areas where I am most passionate.
For years now, researchers have been exploring ways to create devices that understand the nonverbal cues that we take for granted in human-human interaction. One of the more interesting projects we’ve seen of late is led by Professor Peter Robinson at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, who is working on what he calls “mind-reading machines,” which can infer mental states of people from their body language. By analyzing faces, gestures, and tone of voice, it is hoped that machines could be made to be more helpful (hell, we’d settle for “less frustrating”). Peep the video after the break to see Robinson using a traditional (and annoying) satnav device, versus one that features both the Cambridge “mind-reading” interface and a humanoid head modeled on that of Charles Babbage. “The way that Charles and I can communicate,” Robinson says, “shows us the future of how people will interact with machines.” Next stop: uncanny valley!
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Charles Davies might not be as immediately recognizable as some other industry veterans, but anyone that’s been following this business since the early days of PDAs will no doubt be familiar with his work. Davies was Psion’s very first employee way back in 1981, and stuck with the company all the way up until 2003 when he left to join Symbian, before moving on to Nokia with the rest of the Symbian staff a few years later. During that time, Davies helped Psion pioneer the use of flash memory and custom silicon in handhelds, served as Symbian’s CTO, and helped Nokia head up the strategy and architecture team for its R&D division. What’s more, as The Register notes, Davies move to TomTom only further bolsters the ex-Psion ranks at the company — he’ll be joining former Psion CTO Mark Gretton, and former hardware exec Ken McAlpine, who joined TomTom two years ago after a stint at Apple. Still no word on what Davies’ exact role at TomTom will be, but the company has confirmed the move, and promises to provide more details at some point.
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