The Knuth Cyberphysics Laboratory investigates the fundamental physics governing the processes of information-driven systems.
Cyberphysics is the physics of information-based control in systems that display a strong coupling between computing and control elements. Such systems are called cyber-physical systems. Cyberphysics is closely related to cybernetics, which is the study of regulatory systems.
Posted under laboratory, research
This post was written by admin on March 1, 2010
A Rescue Robot from the Tokyo Fire Department
This rescue robot from the Tokyo Fire Department is performing a drill with a manikin. However, I don’t like the way that it is dragging the victim up the ramp by his neck.
Good Lord! Please don’t let that robot rescue me!!!
This is one of several interesting robot photos in The Big Picture at Boston.com, which focuses on News Stories in Photographs. The caption there reads:
Tokyo Fire Department’s rescue robot transfers a mock victim onto itself during an anti-terrorism exercise in the response to a radiological dispersal device in Tokyo, on November 7, 2008. Tokyo Metropolitan government conducted the exercise with eleven organisations including Metropolitan Police Department. (TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
Posted under photographs, search and rescue
This post was written by admin on March 4, 2009
