Wow ...
Hirose Fukushima Robotics lab has made this awesome creature..
Following are the technical specs of this robot
| D.O.F | 18 |
| Size | 1750 (length) x 80 (diameter) [mm] |
| Weight | 7.5 [kg] |
| Torque of joint (Max.) | 9 [Nm] |
| Speed of joint (Max.) | 70 [deg/s] |
Found this post at http://www.destraynor.com/serendipity and thought of copyiong it here :)
The Ubiquity of Perl
The likelihood of Perl being involved in a system is directly proportional to the length of time the system has been in maintenance.
Boasting
If you boast about how quickly you developed your product, people will complain about its performance. (Rails)
If you boast about how well your product runs, people will complain about its development time. (Vista)
If you don't boast about either, people will assume you are developing in Java.
Web 2.0
For every 1.6 billion dollar buy out, there are 1.6 million start-ups in garages digging their own websites.
Startups 1
If your target market is the readers of digg, reddit, and delicious then you're trying to sell shelves to a carpenter. If he really wanted them, he would have built them himself, years ago.
Startups 2
If you build it, they might come. If you have a nice website they might stay. If you offer a free service, they might use it. If you've gotten this far without thinking about where the cash comes from , you're in trouble.
Software Development
For every Architecture Astronaut out there, there is at least one coder who thinks that being "Agile" is a perfect substitute for foresight.
Learning programming languages
Every 5 minutes you spend writing code in a new language is more useful than 5 hours reading blog posts about how great the language is.
A not so novel approach towards environment mapping from this company.
Though it can not be used as a solution in day to day robotics but may sound like a good option for not much changing environment (industries,labs etc).
Anywayz, to me it does not looks like an innovation.
