ActiveBuddy and the BuddyScript
Same issue of New Architect (also apparently their last): virtual elves: A write-up on ActiveBuddy and the BuddyScript SDK. “BuddyScript allows developers to create interactive agents either for...
View ArticleConstructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional Developer’s Guide
Couple tidbits from Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional Developer’s Guide. Page 3, an Alan Turing quote: “.. if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be...
View ArticleBluetooth-Controlled Micro Robot
Seiko Epson Develops Power-Saving, Bluetooth-Controlled Micro Robot in Palmtop Size [gizmodo.com]
View ArticleMars Exploration Rover Image
Continuing the thread that started on Tuesday (ie: “Java is everywhere”), this picture adorned a wall at JavaOne. I wasn’t able to attend the session that talked about it, but the Mars Exploration...
View ArticleModular Reconfigurable Robotics
Modular Reconfigurable Robotics, “… an approach to building robots for various complex tasks. Instead of designing a new and different mechanical robot for each task, you just build many copies of one...
View ArticleFuturama: Using Java Technology to Build Robots That Can See, Hear Speak, and...
Fun article on developer.java.sun.com called Futurama: Using Java Technology to Build Robots That Can See, Hear Speak, and Move. It explains how to use the Java speech API to capture speech, the Java...
View ArticleEvolving the wireless robot
Fun article on developer works about robots, “Evolving the wireless robot: From office tasks to life-saving rescues, robots are serving the wireless world“. Did you know that there was an XML language...
View ArticleGoogle IM Bots
I picked up the Google Hacks book tonight at the brick and mortar B&N. Hack #85 talks about googlematic, which lets you search google through your IM client. Turns out this has been a done a couple...
View ArticleinstantFeeds: real time notification of RSS updates via Openfire
I wrote a long winded post a couple months ago with a nebulous title called “IM and RSS: Rome is on Fire” where I talked about the feed bot that I wrote for Wildfire (which is now called Openfire)....
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