Group items tagged

The 5 feet, 300 pound scooting robot is stacked with quite the resume of capabilities and because it delivers real-time data to a secure monitored location, it will minimize threats for human security officers that take on these dangerous jobs.

this venture gets some backing as security companies are looking for more innovative solutions to counter their turnover rates, some as high as 400%, Knightscope reports.

hese autonomous patrol units are doing the jobs that may be too dangerous for people and doing them better, backed with day and night 360-degree video capture, infrared and thermal scanning, proximity sensors, radar for real-time 3D mapping, and optical character recognition, allowing the K5 to never forget a face. Knightscope confirmed though that K5s are NOT intended to replace law enforcement, instead “to help and assist officers, improve response times and keep them out of harm’s way if possible.”

Петербуржец запустил Locolo: Airbnb для аренды вещей

Бывший издатель онлайн-журнала Apparat Артем Игнатьев анонсировал запуск сервиса для аренды вещей от пользователя к пользователю. Locolo обещает помочь, если вам понадобятся колонки для вечеринки, дрель на сутки или фрак на свадьбу.

Люди перестали хотеть обладать самими вещами, им нужна лишь их временная польза. Именно поэтому развиваются сервисы по шерингу машин, аренде квартир и прочего.

Что скоро уничтожит Uber, Gett и «Яндекс.Такси»?

После удачного тестирования системы Ethereum консорциумом крупнейших мировых банков появилось сообщение о первой небанковской компании, которая будет работать на принципах заключения контрактов, уже несколько лет используемых криптовалютой Bitcoin

Blockchain грозит изменить мир: в Калифорнии появился сервис такси, создатель которого грозится «похоронить» Uber и подобные ему буквально за несколько месяцев. Arcade City, основанный на принципе Blockchain и созданный бывшим водителем сервиса Uber Кристофером Дэвидом, абсолютно децентрализованный, как распределенная облачная технология: водители и клиенты могут самостоятельно устанавливать в нем тарифы и совершать платежи.

making robots look like humans or cute animals, we may develop emotional affinity toward the machines

. This could help promote trust with users—but perhaps also overtrust?

Robots are tools, but they are tools that sometimes hold meaning for people that interact with them, or through them, as when robots are teleoperated at a distance

What makes this device very interesting is that it is extremely cheap to make. Replicating the human skin involves creating a device that can detect pressure, touch, proximity, temperature, humidity, flow, and pH levels all at the same time. In order to achieve this, one would expect that highly sophisticated sensors and circuits will be used. That does not happen to be the case. This team used common household items such as sticky notes, napkins, aluminum foils and sponges to create the paper skin. The whole device cost only $1,67 to make.

“My vision is to make electronics simple to understand and easy to assemble so that ordinary people can participate in innovation.”

Compared to various pricey sensors out there, the paper skin looks to be a good alternative with many potential applications. According to test results, it has already been seen that the paper skin performs on the same level as the more expensive sensors currently available.

“We’re in a new world in terms of the way healthcare is going to be practiced, based upon these data-driven insights.” A future which combines both evidence-based and practice-based medicine is likely to produce the best outcomes for patients

That robot you see being pushed around is the latest generation of Atlas, the insanely advanced humanoid robot as built by the Google-owned Boston Dynamics.

they’re hitting stuff out of Atlas’ hands and pushing him around to test its compensation systems. All that pushing and shoving only makes him stronger.

An average human made of metal instead of meat

Twitch announced it’s channelling that same appeal in its new service, which lets users zone out as they watch videos of artists making art.

Its structure is similar to that of a bone, in which the outside is rigid but the inside is mostly hollow

to save weight

efficient

M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.

Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom

has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones

Соответствующий сервис Social Attributes запустило Национальное бюро кредитных историй (НБКИ) совместно с IT-компанией Double Data.

Первый опыт использования системы, по информации издания, показал, что подписка заемщика на группы о сетевом маркетинге, быстрых кредитах или антиколлекторах увеличивает риск невыплаты кредита в 2-4 раза. При этом позитивные действия пользователя, например, публикация фотографий о путешествиях, наоборот, снижают риски для кредитора.

в чрезвычайных ситуациях люди слишком сильно доверяют роботам. Причем доверие сохраняется, даже если робот совершает ошибки и дает нелогичные указания.

Исследователи предполагали, что если робот зарекомендовал себя как ненадежный и совершал ошибки, то добровольцы не будут ему доверять в чрезвычайной ситуации. Однако все без исключения участники эксперимента последовали его инструкциям независимо от того, как хорошо он действовал до этого.

По мнению ученых, робот мог стать «авторитетом» для испытуемых из-за давления обстоятельств.

Starting tomorrow, users on the Gear VR platform will be able to create their own user profiles and search for friends by username who they can interact with in virtual space.

Social Trivia, which will allow you to hang out with buddies’ avatars in a social space and compete in trivia battles. Users will also be able to create VR chatrooms of sorts with Oculus Social where they can watch videos together from Vimeo or Twitch.

retty soon we’re going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes as if you’re just there right there in person

Using partners that have existing payment systems would be one option, but many of the most obvious partners have become direct or quasi-competitors to Facebook over recent years, including both Amazon and Apple. Once a user’s first transaction is completed, the rest is straightforward, but it’s that first transaction that’s going to be the hard part. Crack that, and Facebook should quickly become a major player in e-commerce, adding yet another arrow to its quiver and opening up a whole new set of revenue streams.

The Dutch team who have grown the world's first burger in a lab say they hope to have a product on sale in five years.Researchers are to set up a company to look at making the burger tastier and cheaper

The burger is made from stem-cells: the templates from which specialised tissue such as nerve or skin cells develop.

The motivation for the research is to find ways of keeping up with the growing demand for meat. Traditional farming methods will need to use more energy, water and land - and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emission will be substantial.

The financial magazine has published its first ever list of top earners on the video platform, with the irrepressible Felix Kjellberg (better known as PewDiePie) heading the charts with pretax earnings of $12 million,

most of these individuals’ income comes from advertising such as sponsored videos and previews, although four of those on the list also have book deals, while a few even offer their own product lines.

Imagine a world where the narrative, background music, colour grading and general feel of a drama is shaped in real time to suit your personality.

Visual Perceptive Media is a film which changes based on the person who is watching the video. Rather than drawing on sensor data to profile the environment, it focuses on the user themselves. It uses profiled data from a phone application to build a profile of the user and their preferences via their music collection and some personality questions.

A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex have developed the world's first functioning sonic tractor beam able to operate outside of a lab environment.

These waves create an "acoustic hologram" (read: force field) capable of moving pea-sized objects without physically touching them. Adjusting the output of individual speakers allows the researchers to move, rotate and hold items at will.