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Intention recognition has developed significantly in fields like security and military. Additionally, it has been considered in health care to help patients with communications disabilities. The aim is to be able to decode people intentions through the observation of their behavior and through analyses of their interactions. Our brain has …

An aspect of human augmentation being considered in the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative (see the first White Paper) is the possibility to re-generate organs. Our organs get older, as we get older (actually some say that we get older because our organs age…), and their performance decreases. By substituting a …

Following on the previous posts in this series, a third area of awareness, covered in a specular way in the next subsection, relates to the potential perception of context and actions carried out by the “aware” entity by other entities. This is, by far, a higher level of awareness and …

A second area of awareness relates to Goal Awareness. The statement I made in the previous post in this series “… and select the most appropriate one” implies that there is a metric, a framework, to identify the good one. This has been so in autonomous systems where the criteria of …

Augmented reality has been applied in a variety of niches, including some areas in health care. As technology progresses, both in rendering data and making them visible on a variety of surfaces and in processing of the data, more effective uses of AR are proposed. At the University of Maryland, …

Context Awareness A first area of awareness technologies relates to Context Awareness. Sensors embedded in the artefact, able to detect the shape of the environment, its characteristics and of its various components, are becoming more sensitive, performant and affordable. Smart materials (like sensitive skin for robots) will be playing an …

In the second White Paper on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems, that is now in the drafting stage, I am looking at the area of Awareness technologies and I am looking forward to get your feedback. The growing availability of sensors and machine intelligence is creating an ambient more and more aware …

I wrote this article for Age of Robots and I like to share it with you on this blog since many of the ideas discussed derive from the work being done in the IEEE FDC Symbiotic Autonomous System Initiative. By the way, this will be one of the key topic …

Back in 2017, that’s long time ago!, a university project Brainternet, made the headlines of several news. The project was (and still is) carried out at the Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, and by leveraging on portable (wearable) EEG harvested the signals resulting from the electrical activity of the brain …

Chip manufacturing technology has reached the single digit nanoscale and is now facing the quantum mechanical tunneling: basically you have to  imagine that the electron is not a particle but a wave and as such it is not in a specific location but it is spread out in space (particle-wave …