Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Vision and Robotics Joint special issue has 8 free online articles on computer vision and robotics.

Articles:
+Editorial: Special Issue on Vision and Robotics Parts I and II
+Omnidirectional Vision Based Topological Navigation
+Monocular Vision for Mobile Robot Localization and Autonomous Navigation
+Detecting Loop Closure with Scene Sequences
+Reverse Optical Flow for Self-Supervised Adaptive Autonomous Robot
+A Study of the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter for Efficient and Accurate Vision Based SLAM
+Design Through Operation of an Image-Based Velocity Estimation System for Mars Landing
+Vision-Based SLAM: Stereo and Monocular Approaches

International Journal of Robotics has articles:
+Editorial: Special Issue on Vision and Robotics Parts I and II
+Recognizing Assembly Tasks Through Human Demonstration
+Homography-based 2D Visual Tracking and Servoing
+Image-based Visual Servoing of a Gough
+Real-Time Hybrid Tracking using Edge and Texture Information
+Visual Servoing for Nonholonomically Constrained Three Degree of Freedom Kinematics
+Autonomous Stair Climbing for Tracked Vehicles
+A fly-locust based neuronal control system applied to unmanned aerial vehicle

for fun:

Can They Be Trusted? – 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood – TIME

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Adapted from the Cold War-era stories by Isaac Asimov, I, Robot feeds from our worst fears and asks: what would happen if robots controlled every aspect of our lives, from commerce and public safety to handy housework? Yes, they’d work more efficiently than humans, but they would also lack our values, logic and reasoning.These fears are harbored by a troubled and bigoted cop, Del Spooner. Spooner hasn’t trusted robots since one plucked him out of dangerous waters but let a little girl drown. The robot had calculated that Spooner had a higher chance of survival. In Spooner’s view the honorable choice would’ve been to save the child. “A human being would’ve known that,” he says.
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This is just a small start but as smart phones get faster processors and more memory I expect to see lots of artificial intelligence coming to cell phones.

. . . Paperless data exchange between field workers and their offices is not new. But Florida startup JumpStart Wireless is bringing it to regular cell phones with software that bridges incompatibilities among handsets.

Using artificial intelligence, the Delray Beach-based company’s application fits most business software, and works with nearly every cell phone brand. Users like the Indianapolis university say it saves time and money on paperwork, data entry, labor costs and auditing . . .

My Palm Treo has a 312Mhz processor and 128 Mb of ram. That would have been cutting edge technology in the mid 1980s. Add in the internet and that it is portable and all sorts of possibilities arise.

More information:
Visual search coming to a cell phone near you
JumpStart Wireless
Workers Use Cell Phones to Submit Data
US boffins design ‘iPod supercomputer’