The show will:

o Discuss what matters to the Lebanese people
o Involve citizens in their country’s public life and allow them to contribute to its development by presenting their ideas or projects for a better tomorrow
o Implement effective and innovative solutions for socio-economic problems via sustainable business models
o Select the best candidate with the sharpest and most feasible solution that can have a nation-wide impact
o Uncover a future generation of young “leaders” who share common interests and values

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An AI (Artificial intelligence) researcher in Singapore, has developed a kiss-transmission messenger that can emulate in a shape or a Robot.

The robot is like a bunny that has artificial lips. The lips are touch-sensitive. The size is about the tennis ball.

You have to buy two kissingers so that you can be kissing your sweetheart. The Kissengers transmit your lip movements from one to the other, thus replicating a real kiss in a virtual world.

It is a funny way to kiss but still better than nothing at all.

Source(s): Kissenger; news.com.au (Image)

Our strategy is to combine exciting trends in technology – cloud computing, omnipresent networks, advanced smartphones – with our own hard-earned robotics knowhow to deliver the most advanced and compelling personal robotics products the world has ever seen.

The Tovbot is a small phone dock that uses your phone’s processor to move to the music. It contains multiple motors that help it wag its arms, head, and feet. The program Weinberg created also “senses” beat based on clapping and can find matching songs automatically. For example, you can clap out songs like Coldplay’s “Yellow” and it will find a matching tune.

Thanks to smartphone and cloud robotic controls, Tovbot is highly complex yet surprisingly affordable. The robot builds choreography on the fly and can even follow you around the room using your cellphone’s camera.

Tovbot’s Page

Source(s): Tovbot; TechCrunch.

Robonaut 2 is the International Space Station’s friendly 300-pound robotic assistant. It has been built and deployed on the stations to assist the team with science experiments and capture alien life. After being fitted with more heat-sinks to enable its delicate machinery to work for longer, it was given the job of monitoring the on-board air velocity to ensure the humans on the ship didn’t choke to death.

The robot , doesn’t have any legs to move around so for now it is only able to monitor the air in the Destiny Laboratory, but the test proved so successful that NASA hopes future robots will take over the more repetitive or mundane tasks of space work .

Here is a video showing Robonaut 2 in action!

You can learn more about Robonaut on Nasa.gov

Meet Octavia, a robot developed by the US Navy that can help extinguish fires!

The robot is part of a research project at the U.S. Navy’s  Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research LASR. The bot is based on technologies from an earlier MIT project dubbed Nexi, including its somehow robotic  face.

Octavia responds to a series of voice commands and gesture inputs, which it then translates so it can carry out the commands for setting off a fire. Here is an awesome video which demonstrates Octavia in action!

The firefighting robot is still in development, it moves a little slowly, and might not be able to respond appropriately to a panicked human. However, as the video suggests, the researchers hope that Octavia will eventually be more and more human like in terms of perception and fast response.

Despite the current technological limitations, we think it has huge potential in the future for saving lives as it becomes smarter and faster.

What do you think about this topic? Will Octavia reach the stage scientists are expecting? Will it be able to save lives? We’d love to hear your comments!

You can check out the LASR for more information about the project.