Claytronics is a term with multiple meanings.
Programmable Matter
"Claytronics" is an emerging field of engineering concerning reconfigurable nanoscale robots ('claytronic atoms', or catoms) designed to form much larger scale machines or mechanisms. Also known as "programmable matter", the catoms will be sub-millimeter computers that will eventually have the ability to move around, communicate with other computers, change color, and electrostatically connect to other catoms to form different shapes. The forms made up of catoms could morph into nearly any object, even replicas of human beings for virtual meetings.
Claytronics technology is currently being researched by Professor Seth Goldstein at Carnegie Mellon University, which is where the term was coined. According to Carnegie Mellon's Synthetic Reality Project personnel, claytronics are described as "An ensemble of material that contains sufficient local computation, actuation, storage, energy, sensing, and communication" which can be programmed to form interesting dynamic shapes and configurations.
External links
- The Synthetic Reality Project at Carnegie Mellon
- "'Programmable matter' one day could transform itself into all kinds of look-alikes" in the Post-Gazette
- "'Teleporting' over the internet" on BBC
- "Claytronics and the Pario World" on WorldChanging
- A demo video of Catoms in action
Audi RSQ [From The Movie IRobot Will Smith]
I, Robot is a science fiction film set in a world where humans and humanoid robots interact (Chicago in the year 2035). It was directed by Alex Proyas, written by Jeff Vintar, and starred Will Smith. It was produced in the United States, filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and released on July 16, 2004. AUDI says: The Audi RSQ is a two-seater mid-engined sports car of the future with special equipment, created by Audi designers and engineers for Will Smith, alias Detective Spooner. The idea was inspired by director Alex Proyas. He was so impressed by the design of the Audi Nuvolari concept car that he asked Audi to develop Detective Spooners car for the I, ROBOT-film. The face of the future: the Audi RSQ The striking body cutouts for the xenon headlights shape the face of the Audi RSQ. They are combined with side air-inlets and thus, together with the single-frame radiator grille, create a bold front-end to the car. 31 years of Vorsprung durch Technik The Audi RSQ does not transmit its engine output to four wheels, but to four spheres. They endow the sports coupé with supreme agility and manoeuvrability. Detective Spooner gets into his police car using special doors: the rear-hinged gull-wing doors open and close like a butterflys wings and pivot slightly around their longitudinal axis. The interior is similar to the cockpit of a jet aircraft. The large panoramic windscreen offers the best possible field of view. Bucket seats fit like moulds around the driver and passenger. The steering wheel automatically folds into position from the instrument panel thus making it easier for the driver to get in and out. Spooner controls important vehicle functions by means of the Multi Media Interface (MMI). A car made especially for a film The Audi RSQ was the first car specially developed by Audi for a Hollywood movie. It only took designers, engineers and model makers from Audi a few weeks to create the concept car in early 2003. At the beginning of July the Audi RSQ arrived on the set in Vancouver for filming. The experts in Ingolstadt also especially produced a body model of the car to be used in a spectacular crash scene, as well as a separate interior model of the Audi RSQ, for shots inside the car. Wiki Says: The Audi RSQ is a mid-engined concept car developed by Audi AG for use as a product placement in the 2004 sci-fi movie I, Robot. It is meant to depict a technologically advanced automobile in the Chicago cityscape from the year 2035. This sports coupé is a visionary interpretation of Audi's typical automobile design. An important challenge presented to the designers was that despite its extreme character, the car still had to be recognised by the audience as an Audi. To accommodate this demand, the engineers implemented a current Audi front-end design which includes the trapezoidal "Audi Single-Frame Grille", the company's trademark overlapping four rings, and the Multi Media Interface (MMI) driver-to-car control system.[1] The RSQ also includes special features suggested by movie director Alex Proyas.[2] It utilizes spheres instead of wheels, and its two reverse butterfly doors are hinged to the B-posts of the body.[1]. Although this kind of collaboration was a first for Audi, a similar project was developed by Lexus for use in the 2002 film Minority Report.
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Added: November 21, 2008
Claytronics - 2D Sweep
Claytronics at CMU - my masters research project.
Author: gregreshko
Keywords: claytronics reconfigurable systems robotics greg reshko
Added: October 17, 2008
Claytronics - 3D
Claytronics at CMU - my masters research project.
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Keywords: claytronics reconfigurable systems robotics greg reshko
Added: October 17, 2008
Logs and Lifeguards: Using Chip Multiprocessors to Help Software Behave Corre...
Google Tech Talks September 12, 2008 ABSTRACT While performance and power-efficiency are both important, correctness is perhaps even more important. In other words, if your software is misbehaving, it is little consolation that it is doing so quickly or power-efficiently. Google has already done a very impressive job of addressing one of the reasons why software may misbehave, which is that the underlying hardware may fail. In the Log-Based Architectures (LBA) project, however, we are focusing on perhaps an even more challenging source of misbehavior, which is that the application itself contains bugs, including obscure bugs that only cause problems during security attacks. Software bugs are difficult to recognize, and they are particularly problematic because they may cause every node in the system to fail (unlike hardware failures, which tend to be more isolated). To help detect and fix software bugs, we have been exploring techniques for accelerating dynamic program monitoring tools, which we call "lifeguards". Lifeguards are typically written today using dynamic binary instrumentation frameworks such as Valgrind or Pin . Due to the overheads of binary instrumentation, lifeguards that require instruction-grain information typically experience 30X-100X slowdowns, and hence it is only practical to use them during explicit debug cycles. Our goal is to reduce these overheads to the point where lifeguards can run continuously on deployed code. To accomplish this, we create a dynamic log of instruction-level events in the monitored application and stream this information to one or more lifeguards running on separate cores on the same chip multiprocessor (CMP). In our results so far, we have shown that the basic logging approach typically reduces the slowdown by roughly an order of magnitude from roughly 30X to roughly 3X. In a recent ISCA paper, we demonstrated several hardware-based techniques that can eliminate redundancy in the even-driven lifeguards and reduce the slowdown to just 20%. In our ongoing research, we are attempting to achieve similar performance through software-only techniques (by extending dynamic compiler optimization techniques to eliminate redundancy within the lifeguards), and we are extending our support to parallel and concurrent environments. We believe that our techniques are applicable to any event-driven lifeguards that processes streams of events, and are compatible with sampling-based techniques that can further reduce the power and performance impacts of monitoring. This talk will describe the work that we have done so far, as well as our plans for future research. Speaker: Todd Mowry Todd C. Mowry is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994. He currently co-leads the Log-Based Architectures project and the Claytronics project. Prof. Mowry recently served as the Director of the Intel Research Pittsburgh lab, and he is currently on sabbatical at Stanford. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.
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Added: September 16, 2008
Geek Brief TV #412
Robotic breakthroughs are entering our lives quickly in the form of useful by-products. As scientist work to build safe, humanoid robots, the technology they discover shows up in cameras, cars, video games and more. The final Brief for Innovation Week is a couple days late because we did a little Chicken Fried Bacon thing [1] with Kat from RealCookN.TV [2] and it left us feeling a little ill. It tasted great, but two slices of deep-fried battered bacon isn't all that different than eating 50 piece fried shrimp plate. Brief 412 is about robotics starting with information from Intel [3] about research they're doing on catoms (claytronic atoms) [4]. Catoms will be programmable electronic atoms that will form electronic devices and rearranged themselves to form other electronic devices. A research group at Intel is supporting The Big Trip [5] through PaidByPixels.com [6] and we'll get some access to some of their research. I'm hoping we'll get to see what they're looking at that indicates catom technology will be available in my lifetime. iRobot [7] is a leader in bringing practical robots to market for consumers and military applications. They've sold 2.5 million floor cleaning robots to early adopters like me. It isn't a bad number, but it also doesn't indicate mass appeal. The Christian Science Monitor just ran a piece [8] about how different the persception robots is between American consumers and Japanese consumers. Americans are skeptical. Japanese are optimistic. Hopefully, exposing American kids to robotic toys like Pleo [9] will start to change all that. Roboticists like Aaron Edsinger is working on bring robots to market that don't require a manual. Domo [10] is a cute little guy that adapts to his environment and has the ability to put stuff on shelves. Even though the thought of having robots actively involved in our daily lives seems far away, it's actually happened already. Robotics research has lead to discoveries that are already being incorporated into consumer technology. Facial focus technology in consumer cameras came from robotics research. The same is try of all kinds of technologies being used in modern cars. C-3P0 and R2-D2 may be years away, but robots are already working to make our lives better today. Links: ------ [1] http://www.calilive.tv [2] http://www.realcookn.tv [3] http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Intel-Talks-Up-Our-Wire-Free-Robot-Ruled-Future-64265.html [4] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/ [5] http://www.bigtrip.tv [6] http://www.paidbypixels.com [7] http://www.irobot.com [8] http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2007/05/31/robots-advance-consumers-stall/ [9] http://www.amazon.com/Pleo-Dinosaur-UGOBE-Life-Form/dp/B000RWEGCO/cali-20 [10]http://people.csail.mit.edu/edsinger/domo.htm
Author: mdnvr
Keywords: Geek Brief TV #412 cali lewis
Added: August 26, 2008