Although the first association with the word "robot" may bring images with negative connotation (Terminator, his father Skynet, the Matrix, etc), one of the most promising, and lucrative, market to be colonized by robots will be in the health sector, and in particular robots that assist elderly, as a recent article in the Boston Globe points out. Read the rest of this entry »
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Robotic maids
| September 21, 2010 -
Boston University Team SyNAPSE presentation, August DARPA site visit
| September 8, 2010
This post contains the videos of the Boston University team presentation during the recent DARPA SyNAPSE site visit occurred in August 2010, in Palo Alto. This presentation talks about the ongoing projects undertaken by the Boston University team in SyNAPSE since March 2010, with some of our most recent results and plans for the near future. Read the rest of this entry » -
HP and Hynix
| September 1, 2010
It was less than 24 hours ago since the last post echoing an article on the NYT on memristors, and two more articles have appeared on both the NYT and CNN with the reports of the announcement, made on Tuesday by HP, that it would commercialize a new computer memory technology with Hynix, the South Korean chip maker. Read the rest of this entry »
