Eternal Sunshine of the Moving Mind

Science is Art

I am slowly going there, getting exciting images from my research

Paris, City of Light

I was in Paris this weekend and the cliche is true, this really is the city of Light and Love. Even though I slept between 3 or 5 hours every night , I feel perfectly refreshed now, life is beautiful!

Movement Space

The movement trajectory analysis I am doing reminds me strangely of some cubist paintings of Marcel Duchamp, depicting people in motion. It will be cool to make cubism with my robot simulator...

Robotics Stuff

I read some cool articles about robotics today. First, a philosophical piece about war and loss and making machines die instead of us , then I jumped about to a video to this funny robot-mongoose cyborg smelling explosives , then I read 2 more cool articles about everyones favorites: Big Dog and Little Dog

Life is good

Recently I was on vacation for 10 days in Iberia, it was wondeful, so I feel now really refreshed and in in perfect mood. I post here a picture of some modern artist from the CCB museum in Lissabon, the river Duro flowing into the ocean in Porto, and "The Triumph of Death", by Bruegel, a painting in the Prado in Madrid that fascinated me,as well as this one of "The three ages and death".

Now i am trying to make up for my vacation time and i am working hard back at the university.
I am progressing at my job in the robotic grasp research, this could turn to be really interesting, I post a screenshot of a succesfull grasp...


I also want to experiment with some new algoritms for image processing in matlab, combining my old work on Voronoi diagrams. Unfortunately, matlab is a bit slow with images, mich slower than java, so so far i am doing single image, video may have to be done in java... I post here an artsy colofful image, which reminds me a bit of some Andy Warhole I saw recently in some museum somewhere...

2 Articles

An interview with Professor Noel Sharkey and an speculative article about human-like robots

Robots and war

A not too scientific article, which however rises interesting political and ethical quetions for robots that can become terrorists or soldiers. Right now all such devices have a human controller that decides to push the trigger and kill , or abstain. How will be responsible if a AI robot does this?
Consider this article about Korean military robots as well.

An Inspirational article

An interesting article about future robotics progress and several robots that will enter human life in the next few years.

BCI meets Robotics

A cool article about monkey brain controlled robotic bodies.

more Robotic articles

A good Wired article

Robotic Articles

I am finding more and more articles about robotics. The google news web page has cool custom sections and gathers interesting robotics information, like this article here, where some 10 coming robots are briefly discussed.

A book partly available online for manipulation techniques

Some interesting videos and papers

I want to start collecting the best robotics articles I have read. It is easier to post information on my blog instead of on my website, so I will gather here cool links and tag them "robotics"