Selfridges in association with Asahi beer has unveiled the world’s first personalized robotic barman that has a potential to serve you with a drink within two-minutes of taking the order, hence saving your 13- minutes. Called ‘Mr Asahi,’ it is developed using Robotics and Animatronics, and essentially is expert in serving ice-cold beer as half pints within de-cap bottles of beer. Mr Asahi’s simulation technology is accessible upon a condensed air feature that is monitored and synchronized through its numerous valves and electrical switching mechanisms connected to a PC.

They say 200 man hours were invested by a pool of eight-engineer to create such a product with robotic bar keeping skills. Weighing a quarter of a ton, it always offers a smiling face and responds patiently to the customers’ needs.

After making its manifestation in this week, the Mickey Metal functional caricature is reserved to move on for a national sampling tour with a schedule appended here.
· Manchester: 10-14 July
· Nottingham: 18-19 July
· Edinburgh: 24-26 July
· Glasgow: 25 July
· Newcastle: 1-3 August
· Birmingham: 6-7 September
· Leeds: 10-13 September
· Birmingham: 18-20 September
After an exhaustive oration, I suggest you to run through the video and applause his skills.

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With every week we put you across latest versions of foosball table and following the exercise is this week’s offering of Robotic Foosball Table from The University of Adelaide by engineering students Tammy Chau, Jason Then, Matthew Turnbull, Sam Wan and Steven Cheng. An out product of their final engineering project, the table is formed utilizing a 96-pinhole camera, LED sensor grid, custom-written software and a precision actuation system, hence offering an access to the table to beat the pants off of a human player.

A logic-monitoring and servo-motor actuation system based on the PC-based SoftLogix podium and Kinetix 2000 motion control technology persuade the game’s controls. I sit back and wonder if the similar amounts of efforts were made upon fighting the global warming issues, which is now being tagged as an eternal debatable issue with no hope to be resolved soon.

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We have been covering magnificent to minuscule forms of computer but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have ventured into a different domain to develop a device called ‘mind-reading’ computer. Hoping to be a fully functional mind-reading machine, it aims at predicting the activity prototype a brain tends to create for a specific word, hence offering a better indulgence of how and where brain stores facts. They are also hoping that the mechanism would enable them improve treatments for language chaos and learning disabilities.

Around nine volunteers have taken the initiative to undergo this training process. They were provided with 58 words and were asked to enquire about the connotation and value of the words. As a part of the process, brain scans were done via magnetic resonance imaging, thereby capturing their thinking process amidst different words.

Then the computer was assigned with two new words and images and was anticipated to pair them up correctly, which finally happened. Tom Mitchell, leading then study disclosed the next step is to test brain motion for idioms rather than individual words.

Via ComputerWorld

Developed in 1928, Gakutensoku is houred as the Asia’s oldest yet contemporary robot for the ascension of the Emperor Showa (aka Hirohito). Measuring almost two-fold of the height of emperor at 10 feet, 6 inches, it can roll its head, wink, smile, and even wisp up its coffer and cheeks, thanks to inflatable rubber tubes accessibility. They say it got lost in Germany before returning to Osaka; where it is reinstated and brought back to life with a $200,000 computer-controlled pneumatic servo arrangement. Truly, respecting its age it walks like any 8-year old man. Take a look at the video below to tap its motion that assuresc its entry from the small world. It is undoubetdely creepy.

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Germany is known to be a land infused with Ideas and the history proves it has had its share to offer. Mind you the aspirin, the airship, the printing press and the diesel engine are all invented by Germans. And now they have one more to be added to the list. BBC News crew lately visited Germany to get a feel of SBaggers, the robotized, fully mechanical restaurant with no single waiter standing and also plates ride over your head on steel rails to arrive at your chair. A complete futurama feel!

Good part is its functioning is admired by all. Located in Nuremberg, this fully mechanical restaurant follows an elite way for placing an order. It makes use of a touch screen that gives you access to surf net while killing time before the order flies to your color-coded seat. It is only at the cooking front that some manual exercise is done by some Elzar apprentices (70% human, 30% iron chefs) within the building. The great mind behind Baggers technology welcomes the huge market for such restaurants that are undoubtedly offers ultra fun while cutting costs to the owners as well as clients.

And BBC agrees to their argument that it is fun, delicious, fast, and no tips. Moreover, it absolutely erases the need for a terrible job of waitressing.

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