A Mobile Robot For Modeling The World In 3D

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Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Indiagames secures global rights to bring the WCG Mobile Game Competition. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

World Expo Robot Custodian

World Expo Robot Custodian 03/24/2005 07:58 AM

Another day, another robotic debut at the Aichi World Expo. Subaru shows off their RoboHiter, which is effectively a street cleaning robot. It's equipped with GPS and position recognition and uses laser sensors and triangulation to, you know, move around and stuff. The RoboHiter "cleans floors and can pick up a garbage can" and will work with two other RoboHiters to confirm an area has been cleaned before moving to the next. And being made by Subaru, I'm sure it has all-wheel drive, too. Even still, they have the cutest little cartoonscapes on the side to remind you that even street cleaning can be fun!

Robo Details [Nedo via WMMNA< /a>]

Is the world ready for the self-aware
robot?

Is the world ready for the self-aware
robot? 04/13/2005 01:43 AM
ZDNet Apr 13 2005 5:32AM GMT

World Robot Declaration Issued by Japan

World Robot Declaration Issued by Japan 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
The International Robot Fair 2004 started off with a "World Robot Declaration" yesterday. The declaration states three specific expectations that future robots must meet and declares 5 resolutions on what must be done to bring the next generation of robots into existence. It puts into words the Simak-like Japanese philosphy towards robots that we've been aware of in a general sense for years. Basically robots will be the companions of the human race and assist humans physically and psychologically while helping to keep the world safe and peaceful. The full text of the declaration is included below.

Pekee Mobile Robot Platform

Pekee Mobile Robot Platform 06/07/2004 07:29 AM

Forget all that half-assed consumer robot crap -- the Pekee Mobile Robot Platform is a real robot, designed as an open platform for students and researchers who want to know more about robotics and the subjects it touches, like AI, networking, signal analysis, and particle destabilization rays. Hell, you could even build your own Roomba, if that's what you wanted, using the capabilities of the embedded microcontrollers (Mitsubishi M16c) , video camera, 802.11b, gyrometers, and temperature, light, shock, and infrared sensors. You can even program it in good ol' Visual C++ (or something more robust, probably, if you're bright enough to code your own interface). Sure, its casing looks like a Volkswagen dropping, but for $10k you can't expect to get ED-209.
Read [WanyRobotics via SensoryImpact]

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SpyBot Wall Climbing Camera Bot [Gizmodo]
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery Revealed [Gizmodo]
Eroti c Robotic [Gizmodo]

Robot Security Guards Debut At World
Expo

Robot Security Guards Debut At World
Expo 03/23/2005 04:53 AM

The flow of robots just doesn't stop at the Aichi World Expo. This time, they take the form of Ligurio, a prototype security robot made by Tmsuk. The bot can recognize strangers from 30 miles away and is equipped with a voice warning system. Ligurio also sports two folding arms allowing it to grab explosives and relocate them to a place you wouldn't mind asploded.

World Expo to showcase Japan's robot technology [BigBlogRobotics via WMMNA< /a>]

Go Digital Honda's humanoid robot Asimo,
teaching PCs to see and fashion video on
your mobile

Go Digital Honda's humanoid robot Asimo,
teaching PCs to see and fashion video on
your mobile 02/16/2004 12:08 PM
BBC Feb 16 2004 3:23PM GMT

NASA Tests Computer Mobile Agents And
Helper Robot In Utah Desert

NASA Tests Computer Mobile Agents And
Helper Robot In Utah Desert 04/28/2004 04:32 AM
Space Daily Apr 28 2004 7:56AM GMT

Go Digital 1500 GMT Honda's humanoid
robot Asimo, teaching PCs to see and
fashion video on your mobile

Go Digital 1500 GMT Honda's humanoid
robot Asimo, teaching PCs to see and
fashion video on your mobile 02/16/2004 05:26 AM
BBC Feb 16 2004 9:48AM GMT

TECHBITS: Mobile protest, wireless
motes, grim IT jobs outlook, offline
commerce, pool-playing robot

TECHBITS: Mobile protest, wireless
motes, grim IT jobs outlook, offline
commerce, pool-playing robot 08/11/2004 05:24 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Aug 11 2004 7:38PM GMT

Going Mobile (PC World)

Going Mobile (PC World) 01/05/2005 06:50 PM
PC World - From Windows XP micro-machines to Web-savvy phones, a new generation of portable devices lets you take data and the Net just about anywhere. We rate 12 contenders.

Mobile & Wireless World: Less can be
more

Mobile & Wireless World: Less can be
more 05/27/2004 05:01 PM
Enterprises that have developed mobile applications for internal or customer use say that keeping it simple and using plain text is often the best route to success.

MapQuest Goes Mobile (PC World)

MapQuest Goes Mobile (PC World) 01/05/2005 01:36 PM
PC World - New service sends color maps and directions to cell phone users.

Microsoft's Business IM Goes Mobile (PC
World)

Microsoft's Business IM Goes Mobile (PC
World) 04/19/2005 11:06 AM
PC World - Live Communications Server will be available on handheld devices later this year.

PC World, Mobile Pipeline on MIMO

PC World, Mobile Pipeline on MIMO 03/14/2005 05:47 PM
PC World's advice: go MIMO if you need range: A very sensible array of advice from Becky Waring over at PC World based on testing several of the current MIMO (multiple-in, multiple-out) Wi-Fi gateways and adapters on the market. Waring offers the same recommendation that I have, which is that for homes or small businesses for which the price premium overcomes the cost and/or hassle of installing many individual access points, a MIMO gateway makes a great deal of sense. I would add that for networks in which throughput over Wi-Fi is a significant issue over short distances (up to about 50 feet), MIMO is the only technology on the market that can increase throughput even with existing 802.11g cards to their highest level at their greatest distance. If you don't need range or speed and adding access points is not a big deal--you have Ethernet installed throughout a house or office or understand how to configure Wireless Distribution System and can deal with its limitations--then the price premium is probably worth sitting on your wallet as the cost of this technology drops rapidly because of unit sales and competition. Meanwhile, Mobile Pipeline's editor writes about MIMO's early use in business: It's not ready for the enterprise yet, but even consumer-scale and early small-office MIMO gear has unmistakable benefits in certain cases that Haskin lists....

BEA Rethinks the Mobile Browser (PC
World)

BEA Rethinks the Mobile Browser (PC
World) 05/27/2004 12:12 PM
PC World - Technology would allow easier offline viewing of Web pages on laptops and PDAs

Mobile & Wireless World: It's still
about security

Mobile & Wireless World: It's still
about security 05/27/2004 05:01 PM
Companies are certain of productivity gains from the use of wireless and are mostly sold on its ROI. But security concerns remain paramount, and balancing the two isn't always easy.

Soap Operas Go Mobile (PC World)

Soap Operas Go Mobile (PC World) 01/19/2004 05:06 AM
PC World - European mobile phone users can get a daily dose of drama on the go.

Mobile Phones Cleared for Takeoff (PC
World)

Mobile Phones Cleared for Takeoff (PC
World) 09/16/2004 07:32 PM
PC World - Cell phones and wireless devices pass Airbus's onboard tests with flying colors.

Real-World Hyperlinks Via Mobile Phone

Real-World Hyperlinks Via Mobile Phone 05/05/2004 06:33 PM

UPDATED Semacode "allows any person with access to a computer to tag their local and urban environment, and anyone with a cellphone to read those tags and follow the virtual links." Very, very interesting... I should have realized -- the SmartMobs folks had this months ago. It's still cool.

Opera Lands on Windows Mobile (PC World)

Opera Lands on Windows Mobile (PC World) 08/31/2004 11:56 AM
PC World - Alternative browser will be available on portable devices running Microsoft's OS.

Wireless World: Veepers for mobile
phones

Wireless World: Veepers for mobile
phones 03/26/2005 05:39 AM
World Peace Herald Mar 26 2005 6:51AM GMT

Researcher ups world mobile sales
forecast

Researcher ups world mobile sales
forecast 07/30/2004 11:50 AM
But warns component shortages may yet spoil things

Supernova '05: "Apps. for a Mobile,
Connected World"

Supernova '05: "Apps. for a Mobile,
Connected World" 06/24/2005 09:22 PM

Hm. So I spent a good forty-five minutes yesterday writing the next post in my series on Supernova '05, only to lose it catastrophically when Safari collapsed under the weight of 150 open tabs. So this will probably be a slightly shorter version of that post. It may also benefit from having had more digestion time. Who knows.

The first panel of the day was "Applications for a Mobile, Connected World" and featured Lili Cheng of Microsoft, Caterina Fake of Flickr, Amy Jo Kim of SocialDesigner.net, Mena Trott of Six Apart and Evan Williams of Odeo. The area that these people stake out between them could probably be summarised as individual-focused social software, weblogs/personal publishing and amateurised media distribution. All these subjects are very close to my heart and many of the people on the panel are my peers and friends. So again, I should probably throw out a quick warning about perspective and potential bias from the start.

Looking back on the panel, it basically fell into discussions about three main areas: (1) The individual's creation of media, what it means to them and how it can be supported; (2) The effects of taking that personal creation and embedding it in a wider social context - what new things become possible; (3) The role of human psychology, trust and trusted networks in the whole enterprise.

Discussion about individual creation really started with some comments from Ev - probably doubly appropriate because both his work with Noah Glass at Odeo and his previous life at Blogger confront these issues head on. He started off the session by saying, "at Odeo we're here to enable lots of the ideas that we saw with blogging and to take them to a new medium". His starting point was the individual's participation in media in general and their ability to create and share media of their own. As an example of how that could be immediately harnessed, he cited the work that Amazon undertook in enabling participation and the enormously positive effect it had on their business.

Between them, Caterina, Amy Jo, Mena and Lili focused more on the individual's desire to express their identity online and to capture memories. Caterina pointed towards Friendster as the moment when the idea of creating a digital presence for yourself suddenly stopped being strange, alien and geeky. She said, in a comment that I personally found very resonant, that "When I first started weblogging, people thought it was very strange".

Amy Jo picked up on this idea of expressing identity, saying that user-generated content - specifically in her case focused on games - was an incredibly important form of expression and that it was appearing at a whole range of new and interesting registers from overtly publishing in weblogs to the more tacit expression through playlist sharing on services like iTunes.

Mena really brought memories to the fore. She stated that she wished she had a record of everything that had happened in the first twenty-seven yearas of her life like she has since she first started weblogging. She revealed that she takes a picture of herself every day as a hook to hang her memories around - saying that she could see immediately her mood and her background and her surroundings and very quickly get a sense of what she was feeling at that precise moment, even years after the fact... Although there was a bit of scepticism in the backchannel about this concept, Lili Cheng supported it very rapidly by talking about how important she felt it was to capture as much information about what you were doing as possible (presumably connected to her work on Wallop and/or to Microsoft's stuff around MyLifeBits). Her position was really interesting - saying that it was very difficult to know which memories you were going to come to cherish in the future and that having these records gave you a structure to narrativise around.

Later, in the question and answer session, an audience member expressed their anxiety that their weblog wouldn't be there in twenty years time - that it would get lost somehow - and said that they would find that 'devastating'. Mena answered that with a really interesting characterisation of SixApart as a company that 'held memories' for their users. She said they took that responsibility very seriously.

In terms of the social dimension, the panel focused on two major areas - the increasing desire to communicate in small groups of real-life friends and the larger implications / possibilities of being embedded in space where your actions became part of something larger and more powerful. Caterina was particularly interesting. She talked about how one of Flickr's major selling points was the sharing aspect and that this is what differentiated it from the other photo-publishing services online. She pointed out that 80% of all photos on Flickr were public. And she moved on to say that many technologies developed entirely new possibilities when connected to social networks. Her prime example here was the folksonomic tagging approach that Flickr and del.icio.us have pioneered - and she pointed out that this was generating an entirely new way of organising and categorising content online. This wouldn't have been possible with the substrata of the social networking functionality.

Mena and Lili were the particular evangelists of the power of communication within small groups rather than to the world at large. One quote from Mena rang particularly true:

"One of the biggest things that I've been able to see - this whole idea of inward conversations - smaller audiences really matter. I believe that this internal-facing weblog is really important - the kind of conversaiton that you're goign to have with smaller audiences is different to conversations you have in public. We really realised this when we bought LiveJournal this year. An audience of six people really matters to a lot of people.

Lili took this even further by talking about the qualities of the conversations themselves, pointing towards a concept of 'energy' and suggesting that this quality was something that she was now able to move into the rest of Microsoft's work:

"Sometimes you want to find a critical mass in really small circles. What's most important is whether I'm having a dialogue with people which feels like it has energy?

At this point, Ev Williams came up with a point to balance this discussion, talking a bit about his time at Blogger again:

"Of course there are a lot of people out there who only write for strangers. We used to put everyone's name under their posts and people used to really protest. They didn't want people in their every day life seeing stuff they'd written online.

But probably the biggest focus of the panel, and a recurring theme of the conference as a whole was the concept of 'trust' and what it meant. This was a more heavily contested area - related to the idea of social networks and small groups but understood differently by different people. Caterina made a particularly nice high-level and inspiring comment about trust that I enjoyed:

"It's trust that enables us to go out in the world. It's the thing that makes the internet possible."

A slightly more formally expressed and nuanced position (but perhaps a less practical one to implement) came from Amy Jo:

"You don't build trust by 'throwing crap up on your website', even though a lot of the work that people are doing is foundational in building trust - personal control in who sees what. Trust is contextual - I trust my husband to be a good man and a good guy, but I don't trust him to get the right kind of bleach. it's contextual, it's not global.

Finally - moving on from the concept of trust - one other interesting comment came from Ev Williams when talking about the future of podcasting. I'm not completely sure that I agree with it. It was in response to a question from audience about the future of podcasting. His response:

"The future of podcasting is not on the pod but on the phone - and it takes these ideas not only to a new medium but to a whole new audience".

I've heard this particular sentiment from a lot of people recently, but as yet it seems to me entirely unproven. As I understand it, radios on phones have - on the whole - not been an enormous success to date - whether that's because of implementation or use cases is unclear to me at the moment. But podcasting to phones also feels like something whose time is further off, when the handset has been more substantially abstracted from the concept of voice / data connectivity. But that's all speculation, and probably a good point to end this particular batch of notes.

[You can find my full notes from the session here]

Wireless World: Mobile-phone ads growing

Wireless World: Mobile-phone ads growing 04/09/2005 07:29 AM
World Peace Herald Apr 9 2005 10:02AM GMT

Mobile and Wireless World to focus on
Wi-Fi, security, RFID

Mobile and Wireless World to focus on
Wi-Fi, security, RFID 06/17/2005 03:37 PM

Researcher ups world mobile phone sales
forecast

Researcher ups world mobile phone sales
forecast 07/30/2004 11:53 AM
The Register Jul 30 2004 3:28PM GMT

Digital Gear: Gadgets, Networks Go
Mobile (PC World)

Digital Gear: Gadgets, Networks Go
Mobile (PC World) 09/07/2004 02:58 AM
PC World - A high-capacity cigar, keys to the Internet, disc repair tools, Bluetooth add-on kit, and more.

Research and Markets: Winning in the
Mobile and Wireless World

Research and Markets: Winning in the
Mobile and Wireless World 07/27/2004 04:24 PM
SymbianOne Jul 27 2004 6:37PM GMT

Bluetooth worm world’s first
mobile virus

Bluetooth worm world’s first
mobile virus 06/16/2004 11:59 AM
DMeurope.com Jun 16 2004 4:00PM GMT

HP's H6315 Phone on Hold at T-Mobile (PC
World)

HP's H6315 Phone on Hold at T-Mobile (PC
World) 03/24/2005 10:36 PM
PC World - Users reported a myriad of software glitches with the Treo competitor.

How to achieve Business Success in the
Mobile and Wireless World?

How to achieve Business Success in the
Mobile and Wireless World? 07/29/2004 02:56 AM
[PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]

New Cabir Worms Target Mobile Phones (PC
World)

New Cabir Worms Target Mobile Phones (PC
World) 12/28/2004 12:54 PM
PC World - Latest variants are able to spread more quickly between vulnerable devices.

* Internet and mobile phones bring wider
world to Tajikistan

* Internet and mobile phones bring wider
world to Tajikistan 07/19/2004 06:24 AM
Taipeitimes.com - Mon Jul 19, 08:04 am GMT

Mobile & Wireless World: Combo Wi-FI
cell phone due out by fall

Mobile & Wireless World: Combo Wi-FI
cell phone due out by fall 05/28/2004 04:55 PM
Avaya, Proxim and Motorola have teamed up and plan to introduce a dual-mode Wi-FI and cellular phone this year that will require the use of an 802.11a WLAN.

Aussie technology start-up taking its
mobile content to the world

Aussie technology start-up taking its
mobile content to the world 09/24/2004 03:04 AM
moodmessaging to launch their IamEmo™ mobile content in the UK on the back of a global distribution deal with Nokia [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

Internet and mobile phones bring wider
world to Tajikistan

Internet and mobile phones bring wider
world to Tajikistan 07/19/2004 01:17 AM
Taipei Times Online Jul 19 2004 5:59AM GMT

Mobile & Wireless World: Rogue user
problem persists

Mobile & Wireless World: Rogue user
problem persists 05/26/2004 04:58 PM
Companies are struggling to provide the benefits of mobile/wireless technology to workers while reining in unauthorized devices and applications.

Prominent Speaker From BP At
Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World
2005

Prominent Speaker From BP At
Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World
2005 04/08/2005 12:36 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Apr 8 2005 3:31PM GMT
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