n-rd » Business http://blog.n-rd.com Everyone has an inner n-rd. Mon, 24 May 2010 14:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 ASIMO avoids moving obstacles http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/24/asimo-avoids-moving-obstacles/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/24/asimo-avoids-moving-obstacles/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:46:16 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=136 Here’s an interesting video found via Make. It shows work done on the vision system of an ASIMO robot to detect and avoid moving obstacles in it’s environment. It’s amazing to watch this robot navigate and calculate trajectories completely on the fly.

Make: Online : ASIMO avoids moving obstacles

At this rate the robot is going to get mad that humans keep moving it’s blue dot around. Poor little guy, he just wants to stand on his dot.

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]]> http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/03/12/dadhacker/feed/ 0 How Americans spend their money. http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/13/how-americans-spend-their-money/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/13/how-americans-spend-their-money/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:50:48 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/13/how-americans-spend-their-money/ Here is an interesting graph made by The New York times. It’s a break down of how Americans spend their money across income groups. I found the tax areas particularly interesting. It seems that it’s very true that you have a hump to get over before your taxes actually go down. It’s easy to visualize how much Americans are spending on housing as well.

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Dear CNN, you know it’s bad when a site with the tag line “Media gossip and pop culture round the clock.” pans your headlines. Please do some real reporting now. kthxbye.

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