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Blue light on the ground on the road? (In the middle of a lane)?
What is the blue light on the ground that I see occasionally when driving. It will be in the middle of a lane, only on one side and not the other.
They are the lights that only show when a light (head beams, etc) are lit onto them.
What do they mean/what are they there for?
These are reflectors that mark the location of fire hydrants. This makes it easy for the Fire Department to spot them at night.
Meet Mask-bot, the human-like plastic head (Cnet - Crave )
Going face-to-face with Mask-bot. Is this what the video conference of the
future will look like?
(Credit: Uli Benz/TU Muenchen)
Let's face it. Disembodied robot heads have not yet reached their maximum
potential. They can sing and chat, and channel your personality post-mortem,
but they don't always look particularly human doing so.
Uncanny-Valley problem meet solution--in the form of a plastic head called
Mask-bot.
To make Mask-bot, researchers from the Technische Universitat Munchen in
Germany, along with Japanese and Australian scientists, eschewed traditional
robotic-realism methods of placing motors under artificial skin. Instead, they
used a small, powerful projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back
of a transparent mask, and a computer to control voice and facial expressions.
Foremost, the researchers hope to give future robots a more human face. But
they also imagine their method being used to create avatars for video
conferences, and possibly even to keep isolated seniors company.
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