Incredible World Fair in Japan robots

A growing global demand for industrial robots.
A record 199 companies and 66 organizations listed in the Irex 2007 to December 1 of the robot types, from industrial machines to humanoid bipedal. Specialists noted that the large number of exhibitors is due to increasing demand for industrial robots.

Attention is drawn to robots that serve people in areas like aged care, cleaning and monitoring of facilities. Other skills of the apparatus may be viewed by visitors on the last day, when bipedal robots face off in a fight. The organizers of the fair expect some 130,000 visitors this year.

Technology, economy and environment

A couple of weeks ago I saw Wall-E and I must admit I quite liked. In principle, it is refreshing to see the ultraconservative Disney takes its original spirit (that of its founder, Walt) to tell a story of this nature. On the one hand, they risk making a story that (at least in the first half) has a minimum of dialogue, and poetic images that border on Dystopia, but more importantly, Disney is no longer politically correct speechifying and finally launches a clear message against consumerism and monopolies. Once again, corporations demonstrate something that is lacking many governments: self.

It is good to see the issue of ecology is slowly gaining strength in audiovisual speech. Glad to see that not everything died with the Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth and the Nobel Prize for Al Gore. Hopefully that of hybrid cars, as well as finding other sources of renewable energy are not only fashion.

It is also hopeful that some companies are discovering that recycling not only helps the earth, but their pockets. For example, the increasing price of oil and the increasingly high cost of air travel, Delta Airlines decided to remove the printing of tickets. Now everything will be through e-tickets, which not only simplifies the process and saves millions of dollars to the company but will also save tons of paper ...

It is also very interesting what happens in the world of free software. It's good to see companies like AMD are increasingly becoming involved with the development of operating systems with Linux kernel. And what has to do with the Linux environment? The truth is that the consumer does not have a philosophy, can be very helpful to the environment, not only for its philosophical aspect, but for its functionality.

Last week I spoke with a soundman who is considering purchasing equipment for post-production sound independently. When I asked him about his plan, he told me he is already preparing, but it first needs to sell his "pot" of Pentium III. It is right that the technology moves quickly, but ... Is that why we have to call pot a computer to do anything that helped us do our work perfectly for day to day? That is what philosophies as those of Microsoft or Apple do with us ... Require us to have 1.5 GB of RAM to use the new version of Word ... Almost two jigs to use a word processor! Same goes for Internet browsers, spreadsheets and other applications that are most common among regular users ... Do not use these applications with a lot less hardware requirements?
Of course it does, and this is where Linux distributions come . The last version of Debian, for example, can run with only 64 megs of RAM and 1 GB hard drive. That is enough power to run a good office suite, a good web browser and the most common programs that people need ... The best part is that a computer of these characteristics is achieved in almost given second-hand market, so it's a good way to recycle,And for my friend soundman at the end he recommended distribution argentina Musix, which is based on Knoppix and has dozens of applications for the production of audio ... I hope you can help.

Create a technology that allows you to control a robot with the mind

Controlling a robot with the mind is no longer a fantasy of science fiction to become a reality, thanks to new technology developed by Honda that allows a machine to move orders through the brain.
For now, the technology that Honda has defined as "brain machine interface," only to transmit commands to the robot movements involving simple.

The researchers reported that focus on making the machine smaller and lighter, and they hope that in future this technology may help people with problems in the spine to move their limbs.
In a video demostrasion in Tokyo, the brain orders a person registered by a team of MRI were relayed to the hands of a robot. The person next to the machine resonance closed fist, then stretched her fingers and finally made a mark on V. A few seconds later, the robot repeats the same movements.