Robots

Since I've been working on high throughput biological image analysis looking for patterns and modeling 3D visualizations, I've been reading about computer vision. Beside the beauty of mathematical formulations for image processing, I found many related papers about robotics and the impressive development of robots which a specific use.

Reading this Gizmodo article I noticed the Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab at Tokyo Tech, check the movies section for examples of their fantastic robots like this:



I always like the robots in SciFi, from R2D2 to Megatron, but when you see the actual research in robotics, you can believe in a close future we'll have more sophisticated robots (complete robots, not only robotics arms or autonomous vehicles).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Code evolution

I like computer generated graphics, but if can be generated by real data and can improve some insight I say: WOW look this! Last day I saw Michael Ogawa's works about how some codes had an evolution, I think he is using the data captured in the CVS, parsed and input to create a really amazing animations. He worked with Eclipse, Python, PostgreSQL and Apache, which are good examples of open source projects with many releases and people coding. Eclipse required HD because the enormous data. The videos: Eclipse HD Python PostgreSQL Apache From: SlashDot
Read more

Advice for potential graduate students

I found this text,copy and paste because it's an advice and must be in every biological laboratory. ADVICE FOR POTENTIAL GRADUATE STUDENTS We currently have room in the lab for more graduate students. But before you apply to this lab or any other, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, be realistic about graduate school. Graduate school in biology is not a sure path to success. Many students assume that they will eventually get a job just like their advisor’s. However, the average professor at a research university has three students at a time for about 5 years each. So, over a career of 30 years, this professor has about 18 students. Since the total number of positions has been pretty constant, these 18 people are competing for one spot. So go to grad school assuming that you might not end up at a research university, but instead a teaching college, or a government or industry job. All of these are great jobs, but it’s important to think of all this before you go to school...
Read more