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Computers match humans in understanding art

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A computer-generated graph of similarities between 34 different painters, reflecting the similarities between the artistic styles of painters as were automatically deduced by the computer. The analysis shows that the computer was clearly able to identify the differences between classical realism and modern artistic styles, and automatically separated the painters into two groups, 18 classical painters and 16 modern painters. Inside these two broad groups the computer identified sub-groups of painters that were part of the same artistic movements. For instance, the computer automatically placed the High Renaissance artists Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Michelangelo very close to each other. The Baroque painters Vermeer, Rubens...

Intuitive visual control provides faster robot operation

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Matt Marshall, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Mechanical Engineering, uses a joystick controller based on visual servoing to command the motions of a robotic arm (with a 3-D camera attached) to grasp a cup. Shown left to right are Michael Matthews, a research engineer; Gary McMurray, a GTRI division chief; Ai-Ping Hu, a GTRI research engineer, and Marshall. (Credit: Georgia Tech photo by Gary Meek)

TechAndComputer (Sep. 25, 2012) — Using a novel method...

Wearable sensor system automatic maps building while wearer is moving

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MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving. (Credit: MIT)

TechAndComputer (Sep. 24, 2012) — MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving. The prototype system, described in a paper slated for the Intelligent Robots and Systems conference in Portugal next month, is...

Sociable trash box: Proxemics in dynamic interactions

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Interactive distances between children and STB. (Credit: Image courtesy of Toyohashi University of Technology)

TechAndComputer (Sep. 24, 2012) — Toyohashi Tech researchers use 'robotic social trash boxes' to investigate interactions between humans and robots for improving robot-to-human communications.

This report is featured in the September issue of the Toyohashi Tech eNewsletter: http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/

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NASA app features inflatable spacecraft for returning station cargo

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The main screen of the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, or HIAD, app. (Credit: NASA)

TechAndComputer (Sep. 20, 2012) — Want to try your hand at landing an inflatable spacecraft? All you need is a smart phone, a computer or a tablet.

NASA's new educational computer game based on its Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project can be played on the Internet and downloaded free on Apple and Android mobile devices. (See...