Telepresence has taken many forms over the years, Education, Health, Emergency services have all experimented with various iterations and combinations of form-factors and bandwidth. I have been involved in many promising, yet ultimately doomed trials and implementations. The team at Double Robotics appear to have something genuinely innovative, well designed and most importantly, practical. Combining the mobile utility of a…
Monthly Archives January 2013
The greatest policy challenge of our (or anyone's) lifetime. Australia recently experienced its hottest day since records began a century ago. The national temperature is the average of hundreds of daily readings across the country and it hit 40.3 degrees. Australia's first six days of 2013 were all among the hottest 20 days on record in terms of average maximums…
Watch this Rook closely. It is playing. It is having FUN. http://youtu.be/3dWw9GLcOeA Sensory consciousness in Birds? A fascinating field of research in to the human brain, machine learning and the nature and purpose of consciousness. Where does consciousness come from? And does it exist in other animals? Nicholas Humphrey, Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics, Darwin College Cambridge,…