Robot Self-Assembly by Folding: A Printed Inchworm Robot

3d printed robot!!

機構教學

學生找到機構教學的網站

蠻不錯的~~

http://sparc.nfu.edu.tw/~cml/meeting(20070323)/2.htm

Shadow Dialogue_by Kumi Yamashita

Shadow Dialogue_by Kumi Yamashita from SHADOWMESSENGER on Vimeo.

好的藝術品有時候真的極簡單卻又有極大的震撼力~~

Windswept by Charles Sowers

Windswept by Charles Sowers from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Kinetic Art / Interactive Art

吉米哥捎來的藝術訊息，一座隨風旋轉活動的紋理藝術。
藝術家：

http://charlessowers.com/

http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/charles-sowers/

HygroScope

HygroScope - Centre Pompidou Paris from ICD on Vimeo.

隨著濕度變化而改變型態的裝置。

[新書預告]仿生微生系 運作中

這是正醞釀中的新書 仿生微生系。

距離活潑建築出版也差不多四年有了，期間繼續發展自己的理論架構，一方面應用在設計教學的實驗上，很興奮也近關情怯，趕稿中，加油！

snake robot

ieee spectrum inside technology

自我建構 self-assembly

可動式藝術

responsive bio-mimetic tutorial

2 weeks ago, i had a conversation with my students talking about our final review's goal. along the hard working of this semester, we tried to articulate a view point about a responsive pattern, which is based on the mechanism of the target bio-creature each group is being asked to research. and then the knowledge is materialized into a proto-device, a mimetic prototype. the step followiong is the mutation of its variation and composition of its pattern. the final step is the artificial life formulation wuth the help of arduino and sensor to create a responsive pattern.

flowing rain trace as an adjustable formation

i took a bus the other day. it was raining and freezing in taipei. i looked outside through the window to see the cityscape. to some degree, a bus window is an excellent observing tool to experience the city life and culture. due to the rain fall and the uneven bus roof, so there came a continuing little "river" flowing vertically passing on the window surface. i am so attractive to this tiny urban spectacle, more charming than the taipei 101 fire work at the new year eve, that i was suddenly isolated from the other city events and focused on the changeable water trace i was witnessing. what is more graceful and astonishing is the story the rain and bus scriped together, sharing the same key structure to the generation of animated forms, vivid forms, or the forms with life. from an embryo in a womb to the landscape of earth, from the baking bread in the oven to the rushing stream of the boiled water demostrates the process of form making and its moveable nature in form. i have to say it is a tiny opening ocasionally happening in daily life, but also a deep insight that sees through the apprearance of the enormous structure that functions steadily in the universe.

【轉貼】Google研發自動駕駛車 反應比人靈敏 ； Google tests cars that drive themselves

The cars have done thousands of miles, Google says


Nobody spotted the Google car crossing the Golden Gate Bridge


【聯合報╱編譯組／綜合報導】 2010.10.11 04:27 am


網路巨擘Google最近在加州對他們研發的自動駕駛車進行試車，它以豐田的Prius油電車改裝而成，駕駛座有人，但不開車，車頂的漏斗狀圓筒，也是汽車的「眼睛」十分吸睛，不過，Google擅自在加州進行自動駕駛試車，更讓道路安全專家側目，當局正調查是否違法。

Google正祕密研發自動駕駛汽車，它利用人工智慧軟體感應汽車的周遭環境，再模仿人類，作出一連串的駕駛決定。Google有七輛車同時試車。每車的駕駛座有一人，於車子出差錯時隨時接手，後座有一技師，負責監控導航系統。根據紀錄，自動汽車可完全無人為干預狀況下行駛一千六百公里，測試過程總行駛里程已超過二十三萬公里，僅偶爾須人為介入。

七部原型車目前僅有一次車禍紀錄，而且並非自動車本身的問題，而是停在紅綠燈前被後面的車輛追撞。

工程師表示，自動駕駛系統反應比人類靈敏，擁有三百六十度全方位感應，且不受分心、打瞌睡或酒精、藥物影響，自動駕駛汽車一旦上路，工程師相信，車禍死亡人數可望減半。

Google堅稱他們上路前，已問過律師，並無違法問題，且Google的自動駕駛汽車不會危及其他駕駛。該公司強調，研發自動駕駛汽車即是為減少車禍發生，且他們試車時，均有人在車上。


Engineers at Google have tested a self-driving car on the streets of California, the company has announced.

The cars use video cameras mounted on the roof, radar sensors and a laser range finder to "see" other traffic, software engineer Sebastian Thrun said.

They remain manned at all times by a trained driver ready to take control as well as by a software expert.

Google hopes the cars can eventually help reduce road traffic and cut the number of accidents.

In a posting on the company's official blog, Mr Thrun said the self-driven cars had so far covered 140,000 miles on the road.

They have crossed San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate bridge, negotiated the city's famous sloping streets, driven between Google offices, and made it around Lake Tahoe in one piece.


'Exciting future'

Engineers told the New York Times that the forays onto the highways have been largely incident-free, apart from one bump when the car was reportedly hit from behind at a traffic light.

In his Google blog post, Mr Thrun - professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University - insisted that safety was the "first priority" in the project.

Routes are pre-planned, mapped first by real drivers, and local police are briefed in advance, he says.

But he pointed to figures from the World Health Organization which show that more than 1.2 million people are killed each year on the roads, and said that number could and should be reduced.

"We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half.


"While this project is very much in the experimental stage, it provides a glimpse of what transportation might look like in the future thanks to advanced computer science. And that future is very exciting," he added.

Google has rapidly branched out from its previous core business of search in recent years.

The company already has significant interests in location services through its Google Maps and Google Street View offerings.

cellbot

結合android手機，arduino機械控制，一台小機械人出現了！
看看！頗好玩。

原址：http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/android-and-arduino-packin-cellbot-features-voice-recognition

MIT Flyfire

MIT 將LED與微形直昇機結合，成為3D畫素，可以空中成像。
當然很好玩！很棒！
只是將它當成電腦螢幕與突現理論應用是截然不同的。
編排蒙那麗莎！OMG!

MIT確實很強，有些成就獨步全球！
不過有時候其實還有點笨，只強調技術實踐既有的想法，蠻死板的。
不過到是與實業界接合的蠻順暢的，大概就是其中的原因吧！
賺錢不能太本質，俗就有"利"!
(不要打我！)
不過萬丈高樓平地起，有很大的潛力！

消息來源：http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/#

玩具機械人

紐約玩具展展出許多玩具機械人(生物)，小孩、大人應該都很愛。

da issue9 out on shelves 夯9上架

夯第九期上架。主題是紙上建築。有收錄之前參加第一屆先進建築競圖獲得佳作的作品。urban rhizome 都市地下莖。是有關環保的集合住宅。

tenga 原型設計、包裝、銷售 ─ 太屌了

我必須承認一開始我搞不懂這是什麼，但是看了一陣子之後，我必須讚嘆日本人對於生活細節的觀察與專注，實在有過人之處。除此之外，從創意的發想、產品製作到包裝、行銷真的形成一個很縝密的系統。很佩服！

下次朋友生日可以送喔！

生物機械

由生物出發探尋其機制而衍生人造物的想法，一直在我的創作、實驗、教學扮演重要的角色。這次在元智帶的設計課，因為結合了機械系與藝創系，所以在技術方面獲得機械系同學的幫助，讓作品能更進一步朝我的理想前進。多謝這幾位同學的努力，他們是廖尹瑄、顧和容(藝創系)，王竹安、呂南璋(機械系)！good job

bioloid robot kit

根據維基這是韓國製造商開發出來的機械人套件，真的只有一個字“屌！”

機械人的動作姿態可以透過動畫模式設定，完成一系列的choreography!想到幾乎十年前同樣的邏輯用maya做動畫，十年後是在規劃機械人的animation！對於科技的進步，設計面對新時代的回應有很深的感觸。

bioloid robot climbing up!!

這學期在元智帶了一個結合機械系與藝創系的設計課，將之前仿生的思考帶入機械人的技術，還不錯的一種組合，也是我一直嘗試的方向。機械人、人造生命等觀念在許多科幻電影推波助瀾之下，一般主流價值並不會排斥，主要在於創意如何進入實質的運作世界，這其中還有許多需要努力的地方。

曾經瀏覽看過一本書，書名忘了，是一本關於日本設計容易閱讀的軟書，它提到日本在八零年代很早就積極研發機械人，企圖引導世界走向一個取代人工的世界。同時期的美國發展網路世界，一個資訊無遠弗屆的遠景。回顧歷史，網路在這二三十年間壓倒性地將機械人工業排擠到次要的角色，網路銀行提供在家裡操控金融，比櫃檯小姐由機械人取代的便利性，確實讓日本的機械人夢想吃了悶虧。

不過時代改變，機械人科技的人造生命絕對是下一個人類文明的里程碑，會重新更替人類文明的思考軸象，勾勒下一個世界奇景。