Updates on OCR and the OCR API...
Do you have an idea for an app that uses image recognition but do not want to reinvent the wheel? Are looking for a quick proof-of-concept without spending months plowing through the latest computer science papers? Then one of the following commercial services might be right for you:
There is nothing more boring than driving a car from A to B. You are a slave to the machine, and have no chance to do something else - even listening to an audio book can be risky if you are as multi-tasking challenged as the author of this post.
And while the only way to get a half-way working self-driving car for your daily commute is to work for Google X, the good news is that money can buy you certain parts already: This post gives an overview of the type of autonomous car technology that is available for sale already.
Pretty much every IT and news Blog I saw in the last days had some coverage on the Darpa Robotics Challenge 2013 trials, including BBC.
What I am missing in all of the reports is an accurate summary of the state of the art of robotics… so what do we have here? Just fancy, expensive RC-controlled toys or autonomous robots that operate on basic instructions such as “climb ladder”?
Lets see:
