Robotics

Scientists, students and entire corporations from the entire world continue to work in the sphere of robot technology, constantly improving and refreshing the possibilities of robots, their interfaces and role in the society. Pilotless machines fly above the war zones, tele-robots create the effect of the presence of man, and robots -[gumanoidy] increasingly more are similar to the people, because of their more [usovershenstvovann ym] motions and answers.

In today's release the fresh photographs of the robots, utilized throughout the world, are assembled. But here it is possible to see the photographs of annual remoteness.1.

1. photograph of the robot of iCub, made on July 1, 2009 during the presentation in the research institute Of [bron] under Leon, who is the aspect of the European project “Robot Of cub�. Robots of iCub by increase approximately from the three year child with the sufficiently rapid hands, the completely mobile eyes and the head. They know how to hear, to walk on all fours, to sit, and they also have “a feeling� of touch. (FRED Of dUFOUR/AFP/Getty Of images)

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2. Japanese of scientist- robot technology establish their service robot “Of eraser� on June 30, 2009 on the eve of the competition “Of roboCup�, the largest in the world event, dedicated to robots, in which participates 408 commands of 2 300 scientists and students, Graz city, Austria. Gerald [Shtaynbauer] , the organizer of event, says that his purpose - to do so that the engineers could create the command of the robots by 2050, which can win in champion of peace of the football acting on that moment.. (DIETER Of nAGL/AFP/Getty Of images)

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3. Photograph is made on April 3 this year; this is the fin “of the tail� of robot, whose actions are dictated by microprocessors, which are located in the plastic container, robot itself is located in the scientific laboratory of John Long into [Pafkipsi], state of New York. Long consists of the small group of researchers from the entire world, robots created, which can float in the water or climb to the coast in order to help in the study of questions of biology and evolution. Scientists assume that the technological improvements with each year make possible for robots increasingly more to imitate the actions of biological essences. (AP Of photo/Mike Of groll)

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4. American servicemen from the second sea expeditionary brigade they learn how to use robot in search of the improvised explosive objects during the training in the camp Of [lezernek] in the Afghan province Of [gilmend], on Tuesday June 9, 2009. (AP of David Guttenfelder' s Photo/)

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5. Visitors were gathered around the woman- robot on the exhibition of science and technologies in Peking on May 20, 2009. China noticeably increases its investments into the region of studies and development of technologies, since the fund for Chinese [sponsorstva] increased by 18% in the last 5 years. (STR/AFP/Getty Of images)

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6. The hand of robot is used for the production of silicone plate in the special illuminated and sterile room at the plant for the production of semiconductor tools in Texas, on Tuesday June 16, 2009. (Jason Of janik/Bloomberg Of news)

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7. 20-year Brazilian student, who studies computer engineering, Gabriel [Franchishini] tune the robot, made for the game into the football before the competitions “RoboCup� at the engineering university FEI into [Sao] of Bernardo to Campo, Brazil, on June 26, 2009. (MAURICIO Of lIMA/AFP/Getty Of images)

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8. Beverly's hospital, the state of Massachusetts: doctor Timothy [Lishing] consults patient with the aid of the robot on June 29, 2009. Itself doctor [Lishing] prophesies from the clinic Of [lakhey] to [Burlingtone] , Massachusetts, in 32 km to the West from this place. (Suzanne Of kreiter/Globe of staff)

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9. Visitor stands before the model of the heads of robots from different films on the exhibition “Robots - From Of motion to Of emotion� (robots - from the motions to the emotions) in the museum “of für Of gestaltung� (museum design) in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Arnd Of wiegmann)

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10. Japanese company ZMP presents platforms for automobile studies on a scale 1 to 10, and also development by the name “RoboCar Z� during the press conference in Tokyo on June 9, 2009. Small machines with the set of sensors were made for study and development of autonomous driving, safety and technologies, which economize energy, and also for the instruction of engineers. (TORU Of yAMANAKA/AFP/ Getty Of images)

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11. The group of students -[robotekhnikov] establishes “football� robot on June 30, 2009 on the eve of the largest event, dedicated to robots, the competitions “Of roboCup� in the Austrian city Graz. (DIETER Of nAGL/AFP/Getty Of images)

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12. Robot- cook “Okonomiyaki Of robot� spills ingredients for [okonomiyaki] (Japanese variety of pastry) to the incandescent frying pan during the demonstration on the international exhibition of technologies and mechanical robot- cooks in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday June 9, 2009. Robot -[okonomiyaki] , developed by the specialist of company “Toyo Of riki Co. �, it can demonstrate entire process of the preparation of [okonomiyaki] : to mix ingredients in the basin, to pour out them to the frying pan, to overturn with the aid of the blade and tax on the plate, and to also ask you, with what sauce or other additives you would want your portion. (AP Of photo/Koji Of sasahara)

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13. Participants in the competition and their robots -[gumanoidy] are prepared at the beginning football match on the competitions “Of roboCup 2009� in the Austrian city Graz, on July 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Leonhard Of foeger)

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14. Robots -[gumanoidy] compete in the football match during the championship “RoboCup 2009� on July 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Leonhard Of foeger)

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15. Working- rescuers govern the robot “of T -53 Of enryu�, developed by Japanese company “Tmsuk� for the selection of fragments, during the demonstration of robot in [Kitakyushu] city on the prefecture Of [fukuoka], western Japan, on July 3, 2009. Fire department [Kitakyushu] accepted in its numbers of robot into 2 meters as height and weighing 3 tons, which it is possible to govern by hand from within, and it is also remote in order to raise heavy objects by two hands. (STR/AFP/Getty Of images)

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16. the Robot- field engineer of American army approaches the improvised explosive object on the road not far from the military post Of [konlon] in the mountains of the Afghan province Of [vardak], on July 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Shamil Of zhumatov)

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17. Robots before beginning football match during the championship “Of roboCup 2009� in the Austrian city Graz, on July 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Leonhard Of foeger)

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18. Prototype “X -47b Navy Of unmanned Of combat Of air Of system� (pilotless Airforce system OF THE X -47b) on the exhibition at the Naval station Of [pakkh] Of [river] Webster into [Seynt] Of [inigos], Maryland, on August 10, 2009. X -47b, created by corporation Northrop Of grumman, was built for the demonstration of the first landings and returns of aircraft on the air base. (JIM Of wATSON/AFP/Getty Of images)

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19. The robot -[gumanoid] “OF KOBIAN� expresses surprise during the demonstration at the university Of [vaseda] in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday June 23, 2009. “KOBIAN�, which can express 7 programmed emotions with the aid of entire body, including the expressions of face, was developed by the researchers of the elder school of science and engineering with the institute Of [vaseda] headed by [Atsuo] [Takanashi] and by the company “Tmsuk�, whose headquarters is located into [Kitakyushu] , South Japan. (AP Of photo/Shizuo Of kambayashi)

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20. Adolescents prepare their robots for the idea during the championship “RoboCup 2009� on July 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Leonhard Of foeger)

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21. In this photograph, made on July 28, 2009, a participant in the largest on-line festival of the electronic entertainments Of campus Of party checks his robot. Valencia, Spain. (DIEGO Of tUSON/AFP/Getty Of images)

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23. The robot -[gumanoid] HRP-4C “Of miim� represents wedding dress from the Japanese designer By [yumi] Of [katsura] during the [feshn]- show “collection Paris grandee 2009� from By [yumi] Of [katsury] in osaka, western Japan, on July 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Toru Of hanai)

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24. Iraqi soldier passes by robot- field engineer on the remote control in the military camp [Besmaya] in the outskirts of the capital Baghdad on July 5, 2009. The Iraqi school of field engineers trains about 900 technicians per year. (AHMAD Al -RUBAYE/AFP/ Getty Of images)

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25. Below in this photograph on the blue platform is located the head of silkworm together with the brain and by antenna, the electrodes are supplied to the brain, connecting it with the machine during the experiment in the laboratory of Tokyo on June 9, 2009. Japanese scientists in the research center of the Tokyo university of the moved sciences and technologies revealed that the commands of motor, sent to machine in response to the pulses of smell can be transferred into the signals for control of machine in the real time, this discovery was made during the experiment on the creation of the hybrid of insect and machine. In the future, possibly, the technicians will succeed in letting out the flock of the robot- gnats, that will be capable are capable of sensing narcotics at a distance. (YOSHIKAZU Of tSUNO/AFP/Getty Of images)

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26. Visitors are enraptured by multifunctional robot- intelligence officer, controlled remotely, on the exhibition of science and technology in Peking on May 20, 2009. (STR/AFP/Getty Of images)

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27. The command of Italian field engineer- policemen prepares robot not far from the center of the press- accreditation of summit G8 on July 7, 2009 in [L]'[Akvila] city, Italy. About 15 000 soldiers and policemen were hired for the protection of region [L]'[Akvila] , where on July 8, 2009 was passed summit G8. (JOE Of kLAMAR/AFP/Getty Of images)

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28. The company Of honda demonstrates its new machine- reasonable interface, and, for control of the robot ASIMO of the sufficiently only thoughts of subject. (Business Of wire)

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29. At the annual conference “Of [roboBiznes]� in the convention center Of [gins] of Christopher [Dellin] - the engineer -[robotekhnik] of company “Barrett Of technology� - it demonstrates the hands of the robot WAM Of arm on April 16, 2009. (Debee Of tlumacki/Boston Of globe)

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30. Modular moved armed system- robot (Modular Of advanced Of armed Of robotic Of system) - the transformed armed robot - passes checking after the walls of firm “QinetiQ of Miller's Foster North Of america� in [Uolteme], Massachusetts, on April 8, 2009. (Essdras M Of suarez/Globe Of staff)

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31. Hand- robot, created by Japanese company for the development of the robots “Of squse�, raises the piece of land during the demonstration on the international exhibition of technologies and robot- cooks in Tokyo on June 10, 2009. (YOSHIKAZU Of tSUNO/AFP/Getty Of images)

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32. The Chinese militarized policemen control the made in China robot, controlled remotely, which is capable to recognize engines, on the exhibition of police and anti-terrorist technologies and equipment, conducted in Peking, on Wednesday May 20, 2009. (AP Of photo/Andy Of wong)

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33. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany and vice chancellor Frank- Walter [Shtaynmayer] sits next to “Eddie's robot� in the technical university in Munich, on August 5, 2009. (OLIVER Of lANG/AFP/Getty Of images)

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34. Model holds robot by the name “Bi- robot� on the international exhibition of robots in [Taybee], Taiwan, on August 5, 2009. “Bi- robot� is developed and made in Taiwan, it 9 cm by height it knows how to walk, to kick ball and to wring out. It costs 12 000 new Taiwan dollars (366 American) and at the given moment it waits the approval of the Guinness book of records as the smallest robot -[gumanoid], after displacing from this post of its predecessor, whose increase was 15 cm. (REUTERS/Pichi Of chuang)

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35. Technician tunes robot during the exhibition of robots in the center of international trade Of [nankan] into [Taybee], Taiwan, on August 5, 2009. In this four-day exhibition participates by 321 exhibition copy of 91 domains of existence, which include the parts of the robots, controllers, and also robots in the sphere of formation, robot- cleaners and robot- guards. (SAM Of yEH/AFP/Getty Of images)

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36. Technician brings into order the head of robot during the exhibition of robots in the center of international trade Of [nankan] in [Taybee] on August 5, 2009. (SAM Of yEH/AFP/Getty Of images)

Create quick animation with stick figures – Pivot

Animation is a great way to express almost anything. Be it fun or be it a serious message and the best part of it is that people notice animations better.

Pivot is one free tool which can let you create professional looking animation which can be converted into GIF image to be used any where you want.

Animation creator

If you have used any flash based animator, this is similar to those tools. You can create frame by frame recording of all the movements of characters and then play it. All stick figures will be flexible to draw and movements can be twisted as much you need them. Download Pivot

Zip Repair lets you extract files from corrupted or incomplete downloaded zip files

Getting a Error while extracting a zip file is probably one of the most common error anybody would have faced when trying to extract a zip file after downloading it from Internet. This happens because of couple of reasons like incomplete download or even when file integrity is lost i.e. you don’t have the exact copy of the same file as on server.

In situations like these software like Zip Repair can help you in extracting files which gives you an error of corrupt header or when you cannot even open a file of which download had failed.

Unlike standard extracting applications, ZIP repair doesn’t got for file integrity test and hence go ahead with extraction process. Though checking for file integrity is a very good option but at times you just need to open up the file.

Extract from corrupted zip files

Once it bypasses the check and opens the zip file, you would get the list of files it can extract along with the status of the file. You might not get all the files in good state but many of them would be definitely recoverable. Download Zip Repair

Convert You tube video into High quality MP3 songs

Youtube is one stop place weather you are looking for any recent videos or all time hit pop songs, however the only problem that surfs around is the amount of bandwidth required for watching the videos all the time.

Instead if you are interested to download you tube videos as MP3 songs with ID3 tag support, Dirpy Studio is an excellent service which can do this job for you.

This online tools accepts a you tube url and then asks you to configure and edit some of the options which is required to convert and added with the MP3 songs which you would download.

Dirpy studio youtube to mp3

Also you can opt to select part of you tube video to be converted into mp3 songs instead of complete one. This helps in trimming down extra part of the you tube video which you can skip. Check out Dirpy Studio

Backup & restore Everything of any browser

I am a person who uses all the browser and each for different reasons. Some for just mails and some for just browsing and stumbling. This practice also leads to scattered bookmarking which has to be retained but never need to come at one place.

So when I do restore things back or sync between computers, I need a way to backup all my browsers settings, favorites, history, bookmarks etc which is little tough when you use 3-4 browsers.

Keeping this situation in mind, Fav Backup tool must have got built which lets you do a backup of any browser you had been using. You can opt for restore or backup on the launch screen and then move ahead for saving or locating files.

Backup restore any browser

Backup restore browser option

Backup restore browser files

However the only drawback of this software is that it doesn’t automate the process and also you need to take backup of each browser one by one. It would have been lot better if this software can do some batch processing for both restore and backup. In my experience this will be a great boon for computers which are fresh installed.

As of now it supports :

• Internet Explorer 8, 7 and 6
• Firefox 3.5, 3 and2
• Opera 9
• Safari 4 and 3
• Google Chrome 3, 2 and 1.

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Shortcut world: Find keyboard shortcuts for common applications

it allows you to browse through categories. Categories are designed on the basis of application names, i.e. Chrome, Excel, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Office, Outlook, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Ubuntu Desktop, VLC Media Player, Winamp, Windows, Windows Media Player, etc.

Keyboard Shortcuts for almost all the often used apps can be found here, I hope it gets richer with time in terms of the number of applications for which the keyboard shortcuts are mentioned here.

Try shortcut world, hope you like it.

Find sound for anything : Sound Search Engine

We look into the world wide web for everything right from music to images to text but have you ever searched for sounds ? No No, Not music I am talking about sounds i.e. Ever searched for a sound file which can play for you on “How alligators sound ?”

Welcome to Find Sounds, A search engine dedicated to find a sound file for the word which you are searching which you can download or listen and tell your kids, this is how this animal would sound like.

Find sounds for any text

Well this might not become a regular search but then when you need it this place can work better than any search engine, as this is more dedicated and works like dictionary of sound files which relates to text.

This can also be useful in increasing your vacab and pronunciations and exploring new ways of saying things. Try Find Sounds

Find your misplaced cell phone by making it ring (US and Canada only)

Consider those scenarios, like you are sitting in your bed, watching your favorite show on the TV and somehow you get reminded to make a call, you start searching for your cell phone, or maybe you just returned from office and while entering your house you casually through your phone on the couch in the living room and later you start hunting for it as you don’t have any idea where have you kept it.

There could be several such scenarios when you feel so helpless, and it takes a worse face when you don’t have another phone so that you can simply make your misplaced phone ring to locate it.

‘Where’s My Cell Phone’ is a service which is damn helpful if you have misplaced your cell phone. All you have to do is, simply key in your number and click on ‘Make it Ring’, as shown below.

As soon as you click on ‘Make it Ring’ your cell phone starts ringing, and so this way you can easily get it.

Later you can Tweet about it as well if you want.

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Puny PNG : Reduce Image size up to 35%

Today we found another tools called as Puny PNG which uses a dirty transparency trick to remove additional layers which are useless.

Using the service is pretty is very simple. You can use the service to upload all the files and then download all of them as one zip files.

You can use this service to reduce file size to greater extent, specially very large image files. Check out Puny PNG

you convert it: Download online videos, convert and send files, unit conversion etc.

‘you convert it’ is an awesome online tool which comes with a handful of tools. Using this tool you can convert files from one format to another, download online videos or convert them to desired format before downloading, it also allows you to send files to specific email addresses and unit conversions can also be done.

As soon as you reach on the ‘you convert it’ page you come across an interface where you first need to make a choice, i.e. what do you want to use it for, as shown below.

Features of ‘you convert it’ –

• You can convert up to 5 files in one go, and the converted files can be downloaded using the download link delivered to your email address.
• Several file formats are available under the categories, Audio, Video, Document, Archive and Image. List of available file formats is long enough, with some unheard file formats.
• ‘Convert Online Video’ tab allows you to download/convert/convert to audio or other video format and then download.
• ‘Send File(s)’ lets you upload a file up to 1000MBs and email its download link to others.
• ‘Convert Units’, several unit conversions can be done under this section, simple and easy.
• No sig-up required, simply access the page and go.

I tried ‘you convert it’ using some small files and results were satisfactory, go ahead and bookmark this multi-utility combo.

Do share with us your views about it.

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Favorites Town: A visual tool to manage your favorites

Managing favorites and bookmarks is an important task and also headache for regular computer and internet users. The major issue is with saving bookmarks is many people don’t know how to manage the bookmarks, they end up stacking the bookmarks at one place and finally when they need to access a page they came across a couple of months ago, it almost becomes unsearchable from the huge list.

Making folders to categorize the bookmarks is probably the best thing to handle and keep your bookmarks sorted, so that the list can be easily browsed and searched when needed.

Well, here is a nice application which can be used your favorites organizer, Favoritestown. This is probably the first tool of its kind. It gives you a window which shows a toy town like interface, as shown below.

Bookmark town

Now, all the buildings shown here are the ones which almost every town has, like a Railway Station, a Florist, a Shopping Mall, a Library, a Bank, your Home, your Garage, your Business place etc.

How does this town help me organizing my favorites?

The idea is simple, you move around your mouse cursor and the description on brown colored board at the bottom right of the window can be seen, which tells you what is every building shown on the town, there you also get to see what type of favorite (either a webpage, a file or folder on your computer) can be saved there.

For example –

Visual Bookmarking

Here when the mouse cursor is hovered on this building, it read ‘This is MY HOUSE. In here I can watch TV or a Movie. I can play music or read a newspaper, magazine or book or look at my favorite photographs’. That means you can save your favorites (both online and offline favorites i.e. webpage, file, folder etc.) which have movies, newspapers, music, photos etc.

In the same way you can add favorites in very building, however to keep things simple, you can view these buildings as folders which help you to categorize you favorites so that searching is easy.

How do I save my favorites in these buildings?

Simply click on any building to enter it, let us try entering ‘MY HOUSE’

Saving bookmarks and favorites

Here you get the options to add and delete a favorite, clicking on any of them takes you to a self descriptive procedure, which allows you to add any kind of Favorites you want.

Favoritestown needs to be running on your system, so that you can use it as a launcher for your favorites at any point of time.

Try it out; I am sure it is going to have a huge fan following, organizing favorites using a visual tool sounds good, isn’t it?

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