Google Earth to offer inside imagery!

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:07:07 +0000

Google well-known digital globe application Google Earth will soon offer new imagery that is being got from inside buildings. This new layer will provide ultra-high resolution artwork photos to the viewers from places like Prado Museum in Spain.

The detailed outside views of the museum’s buildings have also been included in this Prado project. This Prado project neither provides an absolute catalog of different artwork nor does it present an impressive 3D experience.

All you get are 14 pictures of different masterpieces that can be navigated through a pop-up that appears when clicking on the building of the museum in Google Earth.

You may find that gigapixel or high- resolution imagery for the exterior as well as for the building of the pictures too much to handle with something like an old ThinkPad T60. Google Earth stammered and happened to be unresponsive. Most of the present day computers should do well.

Photosynth from Microsoft and Everyscape are some other projects that are trying to bring outside and inside navigation collectively.

The Photosynth quite smartly connects photographs into 3D navigable online scenes. The Everyscape develops inner 3D scenes from images for various businesses. Google has also added Sky View in its Google Earth to turn it outward.

Heart Robot is on display at London’s Science Museum

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:12:29 +0000

David McGoran designed ‘Heart Robot’ that likes being hugged and stroked is on display at London’s Science Museum
The new Robot is being hyped as an example of future ‘emotional machines’ and it would be deployed in hospitals to offer medical treatments to humans.

The Heart Robot has a beating heart that slows down when the machine is treated gently and rises when shaken. It also flutters eyes and responds to touch.

McGoran, a researcher in the Department of Robotics at the University of West England, told in an interview that he had his background in puppetry and dance and it was full of fun for him to work on this project.
The EPSRC has funded for the Heart Robot project that is working to bring people in the researches related to social and emotional robotics.

“Wall-E’s new robot is a good example of social and emotional robotics as it’s a nice expression robot,” McGoran states.
“Robots are usually considered cold, hard, steel machines but now we are trying to change this image trying to make them cute, cuddly and infant-like those respond to us just like pets.” McGoran adds

You can get more info related to Heart Robot project at Heartrobot.org.uk.

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Heart Robot is on display at London’s Science Museum