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Robotics

The Best Robots of 2009 51

Posted by samzenpus from the best-of-show dept.
kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."

Comment Wrong! (Score 1) 942

by Fengpost (#29869925) Attached to: Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog
Did the study take in account the methane the dog produces? Dogs are even more of a threat to the environment than cattle! Having said that, you would need to get pass me to kill my dog!

Comment Pricing (Score 1) 398

by Fengpost (#28590497) Attached to: We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks?
I am taking an off campus courses of a top American University graduate program here in Taiwan. The exactly same text book sold here in Taiwan is about 1/5 the price of U.S. book store. Our U.S. professor always come to Taiwan to buy the text book they need. It is a total rip off for the U.S. students IMHO.
Privacy

"Privacy Baseline" For European EID Cards 24

Posted by timothy from the you-don't-need-to-know-to-that dept.
giles hogben writes "This paper from the European Network and Information Security Agency looks at the roll-out of privacy features in electronic identity card technology (PDF) over Europe. It includes numerous tables for easy comparison but doesn't make too much comment on the relative privacy-merits of different cards. Readers can draw their own conclusions though ..."

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