Stanford University hosted a Robot Block Party on the eve of National Robotics Week. National Robotics Week is an event organized by the Robotics Caucus of the U.S. Congress and leading robotics companies, and schools to give more exposure to the resources and ideas around robotics research and education.
A solar-powered, remotely controlled robot roams the floor at the Robot Block Party at Stanford.
Photo by James Martin/CNET
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R2, short for Robonaut 2, is heading to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Discovery in September. R2 is able to perform experiments in micro-gravity, working with astronauts on multiple experiments.
During the last three years, a team of General Motors and NASA employees, at the Houston’s Johnson Space center, designed, engineered and build the 300-pound, human-like machine, today known as R2.
On board the ISS, R2 will be in testing phase and is said to undergo various enhancements in the future to make it truly ideal as a Space Robonaut.
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Are you a stat’s fan?, then pick up your copy of SAS for free starting this fall at your university!
On-Demand for Academics is an online program for teaching and learning data management and analytics. It allows professors and students to use several applications, including SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner for free. More applications may be added in the near future. Is SAS Institue following in the foot steps of software giants?, its something which we should wait and watch!
Recently, we did read about large corporations using data mining especially partnering with social networking sites to improve there product offering. Yes, social data is now a valuable commodity. Facebook, Twitter and other online forums, provides a rich source of user sentiment, which is of immense value. Today companies are building tools which would help make sense of the data. Once such tool in focus is SAS Social Media Analytics by SAS Institute.
SAS Institute, the leader in advanced business intelligence and data analytics software, thinks it can do better. It is introducing a software service on Monday called SAS Social Media Analytics that analysts say seems to represent a step ahead in social media analysis tools.
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