Tag: robotics

Social digital cyborgs

May 12, 2023

in AI, Note, Robotics

artificial intelligence, culture, cyborg, dance, robotics, social interaction, surgery

Papadopoulos, L. (2023, May 7). Spider-like robotic AI arms can be attached to and controlled by humans. Interesting Engineering. The primary goal of Jizai Arms is to ensure that human beings can act with robots and AI in a way that feels natural and comfortable as if the artificial components are but mere extensions of…
Contact is a complex phenomenon…

Apr 20, 2023

in Note, Robotics

physiotherapy, robotics

It’s interesting to think that we’re building systems to help robots understand physical contact (granted, it’s mainly from a physics perspective), when we don’t yet really understand human touch.
Comment: Opening up a physics simulator for robotics

Oct 25, 2021

in AI, Note, Robotics

biomechanics, deepmind, MuJoCo, multi-joint dynamics, open source, physics, robotics, simulation

When you walk, your feet make contact with the ground. When you write, your fingers make contact with the pen. Physical contacts are what makes interaction with the world possible. Yet, for such a common occurrence, contact is a surprisingly complex phenomenon. Taking place at microscopic scales at the interface of two bodies, contacts can…
WCPT poster: Introduction to machine learning in healthcare

May 5, 2019

in AI, Clinical

decision-making, expert systems, healthcare, image recognition, judgement, machine learning, natural language processing, nlp, poster, prediction, robotics, wcpt

My poster and list of references for the WCPT 2019 conference in Geneva.
Who is planning for the future of physiotherapy?

Jan 23, 2019

in AI, Physiotherapy, Technology

artifiicial intelligence, emerging technology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, physiotherapy, physiotherapy education, robotics

In the middle ages, cities could spend more than 100 years building a cathedral while at the same time believing that the apocalypse was imminent. They must’ve had a remarkable conviction that commissioning these projects would guarantee them eternal salvation. Compare this to the way we think about planning and design today where, for example,…
The evolution of Atlas from Boston Dynamics

Oct 18, 2018

in AI

ai, atlas, boston dynamics, embodied intelligence, robotics

This overview of the changes in capabilities of the Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics is both fascinating and bit unsettling. In 5 years Atlas has gone from struggling to stand on one leg, to walking on uneven surfaces, to running on uneven surfaces, to doing backflips and now, in October 2018, to bounding up…
Rodney Brooks | Robotics & AI – Their Present & Future

Oct 12, 2018

in AI

machine learning, robotics, rodney brooks

Rodney Brooks was one of the leading developers of AI coding tools throughout the 80s and early 90s at MIT, where he spent a decade running one of the two largest and most prominent AI centres in the world. There are few who can match the breadth, depth, and duration of Rodney’s purview on the…
Physiotherapy in 2050: Ethical and clinical implications

Jul 17, 2015

in Education, Physiotherapy, Technology

3d printing, aging, algorithms, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, brain computer interfaces, clinical education, ethics, gene therapy, genetic modification, nanotechnology, physiotherapy education, professional ethics, prosthetics, robotics, virtual reality

This post describes a project that I began earlier this week with my 3rd year undergraduate students as part of their Professional Ethics module. The project represents a convergence of a few ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a couple of years and are now coming together as a result of…