Dust Busters Gather

Operational Gather

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Bye, bye blockbusters, hello niche busters.

time for a great white shark named Bruce. A mechanical beast weighing 1.5 tonnes, Bruce was the star of Jaws, a movie that grossed US$260 million in the United States, ushering Hollywood into the summer blockbuster era. Like the movie industry, the pharmaceutical sector has in recent decades come to rely on annual blockbusters to drive profits. But it appears the blockbuster model is broken. Un...

Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals

W report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that s...

First, gather the data.

Hunt and Gather Robotics

This paper describes a generic approach to generating intelligence systems for robots that perform an operation we call “hunt and gather”. While, there have been various solutions proposed for complete systems that perform hunt and gather tasks within specified domains, the focus of the research presented here is to develop a minimalist system that can be used across a variety of problems witho...