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May 30, 2008
Chatterboxes – autonomous robots at work
Harvesting energy
SFU Contemporary Arts gets ready for its close-up
Chatterboxes – autonomous robots at work
These robots decide for themselves when and where to work and when to recharge. Dubbed Chatterboxes, they use light and sound to communicate with each other and with humans and are designed to work together on projects with no human intervention. They’ll show off their fine-tuned skills during SFU’s Open House on May 31. The 12-centimetre cubes can see with infra-red eyes. One of their first jobs was to map the TASC1 building in which they live, wandering throughout and taking measurements - all the while remembering to get recharged. When they run low, two large mother robots deliver electricity to the chatterboxes. The 20 robots are the work of computing science professor Richard Vaughan, whose research focuses on how robots perceive their environment and interact with each other. The Chatterboxes will be on display all day in the Applied Sciences Building.
Harvesting energy
Kinesiologist Max Donelan’s bionic energy harvester – a device strapped to the knee that can generate and story energy as a person walks – attracted international attention when it was introduced earlier this spring – now the general public can have a first-hand glimpse of the device and see how it works during SFU’s Open House on May 31. A demonstration will be held at 2 p.m. in ASSC1, room 10041. For more on the device see the release.
SFU Contemporary Arts gets ready for its close-up
It'll be a day of dance, drama and drumming when SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts struts its stuff at SFU's Open House event on Saturday, May 31 from noon to 4:30 pm. Head to the atrium, near Renaissance Coffee in the NE corner of the AQ, to catch a rare gamelan performance, colour your own mini-movie, make a little "moog" music with a vintage synthesizer and stomp up a sound-and-light storm. Pick up a program when you arrive on campus--it's the last big blowout before SFU Contemporary Arts moves its seven disciplines downtown to become the anchor tenant in the new Woodward's building.
Marianne Meadahl/Fiona Burrows, PAMR, 778.782.3210
Harvesting energy
SFU Contemporary Arts gets ready for its close-up
Chatterboxes – autonomous robots at work
These robots decide for themselves when and where to work and when to recharge. Dubbed Chatterboxes, they use light and sound to communicate with each other and with humans and are designed to work together on projects with no human intervention. They’ll show off their fine-tuned skills during SFU’s Open House on May 31. The 12-centimetre cubes can see with infra-red eyes. One of their first jobs was to map the TASC1 building in which they live, wandering throughout and taking measurements - all the while remembering to get recharged. When they run low, two large mother robots deliver electricity to the chatterboxes. The 20 robots are the work of computing science professor Richard Vaughan, whose research focuses on how robots perceive their environment and interact with each other. The Chatterboxes will be on display all day in the Applied Sciences Building.
Harvesting energy
Kinesiologist Max Donelan’s bionic energy harvester – a device strapped to the knee that can generate and story energy as a person walks – attracted international attention when it was introduced earlier this spring – now the general public can have a first-hand glimpse of the device and see how it works during SFU’s Open House on May 31. A demonstration will be held at 2 p.m. in ASSC1, room 10041. For more on the device see the release.
SFU Contemporary Arts gets ready for its close-up
It'll be a day of dance, drama and drumming when SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts struts its stuff at SFU's Open House event on Saturday, May 31 from noon to 4:30 pm. Head to the atrium, near Renaissance Coffee in the NE corner of the AQ, to catch a rare gamelan performance, colour your own mini-movie, make a little "moog" music with a vintage synthesizer and stomp up a sound-and-light storm. Pick up a program when you arrive on campus--it's the last big blowout before SFU Contemporary Arts moves its seven disciplines downtown to become the anchor tenant in the new Woodward's building.
Marianne Meadahl/Fiona Burrows, PAMR, 778.782.3210