Iobs––Adding Intelligence to Real-Life Objects

Real-World Limits to Algorithmic Intelligence

Recent theories of universal algorithmic intelligence, combined with the view that the world can be completely specified in mathematical terms, have led to claims about intelligence in any agent, including human beings. We discuss the validity of assumptions and claims made by theories of universally optimal intelligence in relation to their application in actual robots and intelligence tests. ...

Bringing Semantic Services to Real-World Objects

The last few years have seen the emergence of two parallel trends: the first of such trends is set by technologies such as Near Field Communication, 2D Bar codes and RFID that support the association of digital information with virtually every object. Using these technologies ordinary objects such as coffee mugs or advertisement posters provide digital information that can be easily processed. ...

A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Counting Stacked Symmetric Objects

In a manufacturing environment it is often necessary to perform a manual inventory of finished goods and raw materials. These raw materials might be wood, plastic or metal and often represent a large investment of capital to procure and store. While the economic value of an accurate inventory is high, the process of obtaining a good count is tedious and fraught with human error. As a precursor ...

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Virtual Objects Real World

Computing at the intersection of two realms. T HE TERM VIRTUAL REALITY USUALLY REFERS TO SYSTEMS THAT generate a totally synthetic environment, in which the end user is able to specify all the characteristics of the new environment. A head-mounted display and an orientation and position tracker enable the user to roam around the new virtual world, look up and down, and walk into rooms that don'...