Old post from Luis brought back from graveyard.....
At least two good ideas to put there:
1) tipping points prediction
2) planetary phases for trajectory transfer
and probably many more if we think about it a bit more
"Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research, start-ups, business, and education from around the world."
What is nice about robohub is that they generally give a look behind the scenes of interesting robotic studies.
This is currently a very trendy subject in navigation, indeed. In your case, how exactly do you resolve the ambiguity? why only one 2D marker? what would be the conclusion exactly?
After previously investing in the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in Brad Stone's Businessweek story about Google X, and judging from Stone's story, the team will join Google X.
this is a parody on the Norvig-Chomsky debate that has been going on for the last year or so. You can read more about it here: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Recently, many competitions in the computer vision domain have been won by huge convolutional networks. In the image net competition, the convolutional network approach halves the error from ~30% to ~15%! Key changes that make this happen: weight-sharing to reduce the search space, and training with a massive GPU approach. (See also the work at IDSIA: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/vision.html)
This should please Francisco :)
"Sergey Brin has said he wants to build a benign version of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey"
... didn't they try to do that in that movie called "2001: A Space Odyssey" ?
The Robobee takes off without guide wires!
It is still powered via a wire, and the control is done with the help of a VICON system and on an external computer, but this still is an amazing feat!
The way they make this thing is just as impressive. The manufacturing technique is "pop-up book" folding, a method that has been developed by the same group and that allows a two dimensional monolithic MEMS structures to be easily assembled into a 3D structure. I actually put this as an item of the "Technology List 2020" on the wiki this morning.