{"id":41196,"date":"2013-07-17T12:57:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=41196"},"modified":"2013-07-18T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:29:38","slug":"the-science-fiction-world-continues-to-develop-but-its-often-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/07\/17\/the-science-fiction-world-continues-to-develop-but-its-often-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The science-fiction world continues to develop &#8212; but it&#8217;s often for real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nSome items that made me think of this posting:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/humanoids\/darpa-unveils-atlas-drc-robot \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DARPA unveils Atlas DRC Robot<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from spectrum.ieee.org by Stephen Cass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/img\/Atlas_4437_shrunk-1373567699341.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Specs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Six feet, two inches tall (1.88m)<\/li>\n<li>330 pounds (150kg)<\/li>\n<li>On-board real-time control computer<\/li>\n<li>On-board hydraulic pump and thermal management<\/li>\n<li>Tethered for networking and 480-V three-phase power at 15 kW<\/li>\n<li>Two arms, two legs, a torso and a head<\/li>\n<li>28 hydraulically actuated joints<\/li>\n<li>Carnegie Robotics sensor head with LIDAR and stereo sensors<\/li>\n<li>Two sets of hands, one provided by iRobot and one by Sandia National Labs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Done home -- from time.com by Lev Grossman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,2135132,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Drone Home<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from time.com by Lev Grossman\u00a0 &#8212; also see <a href=\"http:\/\/robotfuturesbook.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/03\/time-rise-of-the-robots-special-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIME: \u201cRise of the Robots\u201d Special\u00a0Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Flying a drone, even just a Parrot, makes you realize what a radically new and deeply strange technology drones are. A drone isn&#8217;t just a tool; when you use it you see and act through it \u2014 you inhabit it. It expands the reach of your body and senses in much the same way that the Internet expands your mind. The Net extends our virtual presence; drones extend our physical presence. They are, along with smart phones and 3-D printing, one of a handful of genuinely transformative technologies to emerge in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2013-04\/24\/3d-printed-liver\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bioengineers 3D print tiny functioning human liver<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2013\/07\/tesla-plant-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peek inside Tesla\u2019s robotic factory<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from wired.com<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/image.motortrend.com\/f\/roadtests\/alternative\/1206_2012_tesla_model_s_first_drive\/38656552\/Tesla-factory-2.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Image from<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/roadtests\/alternative\/1206_2012_tesla_model_s_first_drive\/photo_11.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/roadtests\/alternative\/1206_2012_tesla_model_s_first_drive\/photo_11.html<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<br \/>\nAnd, if you are up to filtering through a great deal of content, create some<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/alerts\/?page=faq.html&amp;hl=en#175925\" target=\"_blank\">Google Alerts<\/a><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">on the following things to see what&#8217;s happening with them:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Internet of Things<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Augmented reality<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>WebRTC<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Artificial intelligence<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Self-driving cars<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wearable technologies<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Some items that made me think of this posting: &nbsp; DARPA unveils Atlas DRC Robot &#8212; from spectrum.ieee.org by Stephen Cass &nbsp; Specs: Six feet, two inches tall (1.88m) 330 pounds (150kg) On-board real-time control computer On-board hydraulic pump and thermal management Tethered for networking and 480-V three-phase power at 15 kW Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,224,45,72,9,82,95,63,276,55,7,437,480,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-augmented-reality","category-computer-science","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-video","category-engineering","category-global-globalization","category-google","category-interactivity","category-internet","category-learning-ecosystem","category-robotics","category-society","category-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41196"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41309,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41196\/revisions\/41309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}