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...