Posts Tagged «mapping»
New indoor positioning system lets you do Batman-like echolocation on your phone July 31, 2014 at 1:27 pm
Echolocation has worked helped bats navigate for millions of years, and now Berkeley researchers think your laptop could do it too.
Google’s Street View neural network can now decrypt captchas better than a human April 17, 2014 at 5:25 am
Google has created an artificial neural network that is as good at reading addresses in Streetview as a person. It has already figured out 100 million of them on its own.
New LIDAR chip will sharpen aerial mapping and autonomous car vision February 18, 2014 at 2:29 pm
A new type of LIDAR being developed by the Air Force could create aerial maps of the ground in minutes where it used to take hours.
Astrophysicists create the first accurate map of the universe: It’s very flat, and probably infinite January 9, 2014 at 12:57 pm
Astrophysicists have compiled the most accurate map ever of the universe. Spanning a distance of over six billion light years, the new map plots the location of 1.2 million galaxies with an accuracy of 99%. This means that the distance between galaxies on the map is accurate to within 1% of the actual distance — an astonishing feat when you consider that we’re doing the measuring from a single point of space and observing tiny specks of light that are trillions of miles away. The new map provides some of the best evidence that the universe is flat, and that it’s “likely” the universe is infinite, extending forever into space and time.
A swarm of cyborg insects used for mapping collapsed buildings October 18, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Researchers from North Carolina State University finally have a use for insect brain-jacking: use a swarm of cyborg cockroaches to map dangerous or uncertain areas like collapsed buildings. Could this tech help at Fukushima Daiichi?
Kinect-based robotic mapping puts autonomy back on the menu (with video) August 29, 2013 at 10:53 am
Real-time robotic mapping could let robots stride confidently into new places.
The best of SciStarter: DIY bioprinters, AR drones, and 19th century sailors June 17, 2013 at 7:30 am
We collected some of the most interesting, important, or and just plain cool projects to come out of the still-burgeoning resource for scientists that is Sci-Starter.