Thursday, April 3, 2008

Steampunk



Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality.
Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

EVENT FOR EXTENDED BODY AND WALKING MACHINE

A six-legged, pneumatically powered walkingmachine has been constructed for the body. The locomotor, with either ripple or tripod gait ,moves fowards, backwards, sideways and turnson the spot. It can also squat and lift by splaying orcontracting its legs. The body is positioned on a turn-table, enabling it to rotate about its axis. It has an exoskeleton on its upper body and arms. The left arm is an extended arm with pneumatic manipulator having 11degrees-of- freedom. It is human-like in form but with additional functions. The fingers open and close , becoming multiplegrippers. There is individual flexion of the fingers, with thumb and wrist rotation. The bodyactuates the walking machine by moving its arms.Different gestures make differentmotions- a translation of limb to leg motions.The body's arms guide the choreography of the locomotor's movements and thus compose the cacophony of pneumatic and mechanical
and sensor modulated sounds

Sarcos' military exoskeleton becomes a frightening reality.




Sarcos' military exoskeleton becomes a frightening reality have you been waiting for a legion of half-man, half-machine storm troopers to descend upon your city and blaze a round of hellfire in all general directions? If you said yes, that's kind of weird. At any rate, you can consider yourself one step closer to cyborg annihilation thanks to a company called Sarcos and its semi-scary exoskeleton -- which will make any regular old soldier into a Terminator-like killing machine (as far as we can tell). Sure, they demo the unit lifting heavy equipment and reducing fatigue of the user, but we know what this thing is really for -- and it doesn't involve food drops. Check the video after the break to have your mind shattered into a million delicious pieces

Chat with A.L.I.C.E

A.L.I.C.E


First of all i want to point out that it is very easy to start chatting with A.L.I.C.E,
and because it is a Robot or a Bot, it is likely that it knows more infos about Robots and Bots.
For a Bot, i think it can not talk about an issue or a subject with a sequence of ideas.
For example i asked It or Her about prequel and sequel it tought we have a lot in common, then i asked her about what is extension of body and mind she said it is a person it didnt know what it is or it couldnt give me the definition of it.
Once again i asked her, that in another chat with A..L.I.C.E, about Extansional she answered right and that is "ALICE: Yippee! "Extensional" refers to the extension of the set, i.e. the set of all things commonly grouped under a single name. The "extensional" definition of a robot is the set of all things

U.S Army and Exoskeleton.

F-117 stealth fighters to make final flight no one will know about
Air Force buffs, prepare to salute a true American hero as it makes it way into the annals of military history: the F-117 stealth fighter. The planes -- one of the most enigmatic members of the military's arsenal -- will be making their final trip on April 21st from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to Tonopah Test Range Airfield in Nevada, the home of their first flight. The aircraft is being replaced by a newer model, the F-22 Raptor, and the government says it has no plans to bring the radar-dodging planes out of retirement. In all, there have only been 59 F-117s that have rolled off the assembly line, 37 of which have already been taken out of the skies, and another seven which have crashed. We'll miss you, F-117, and all the totally awesome, completely secret stuff you did

Exoskeleton and the Army


Sarcos' military exoskeleton becomes a frightening reality.

Have you been waiting for a legion of half-man, half-machine storm troopers to descend upon your city and blaze a round of hellfire in all general directions? If you said yes, that's kind of weird. At any rate, you can consider yourself one step closer to cyborg annihilation thanks to a company called Sarcos and its semi-scary exoskeleton -- which will make any regular old soldier into a Terminator-like killing machine (as far as we can tell). Sure, they demo the unit lifting heavy equipment and reducing fatigue of the user, but we know what this thing is really for -- and it doesn't involve food drops. Check the video after the break to have your mind shattered into a million delicious pieces

CyberPunk


Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." It is also a subgenre of industrial rock music. The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983,[1] although the style was popularized well before its publication by editor Gardner Dozois. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or a radical change in the social order.
The Cyberpunk Project (TCP) is a remotely avaliable data-well net of files about cyberpunk subculture, cyberpunk science-fiction and general cyberculture in the form of collected information. It is the result of years of gathering data and sorting it, to compile a host of cyberpunk-ifnormation related documents and work.