This paper describes a shape-changing robotic mannequin. It is designed to imitate shapes of different people to be used in online clothes retail and made-tomeasure garment industry. We discuss the challenges related to creation of a female robotic mannequin and describe the technical solutions. 

Genetic robot is one of artificial creatures and has its own genome in which each chromosome consists of many genes that contribute to defining its personality. By using the concept of genetic robot, this paper proposes personalized robotic doll by applying evolutionary process to generate unique propensity, defined by its genome. A genome population is evolved such that it customizes the genom...

This paper describes the development and implementation of a Bayes network based system for distinguishing terrestrial rocks from meteorites from onboard the mobile robotic rover Nomad. Equipped with a color camera and spectrometer, Nomad autonomously made the first robotic identification of a meteorite, in January 2000 at the Elephant Moraine, Antarctica. This paper discusses rock classificati...

The endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica colonizes the roots of many plant species including Arabidopsis and promotes their performance, biomass, and seed production as well as resistance against biotic and abiotic stress. Imbalances in the symbiotic interaction such as uncontrolled fungal growth result in the loss of benefits for the plants and activation of defense responses against the mi...

Our System is designed and continously enhanced primarily with input from our customers in the Lawn & Garden/Nursery, and Pet retail markets. Software Programs: The Integra System is comprised of modular major software components that can be implemented separately, or combined to form a powerful fully integrated tailored solution for single sites or multiple locations. The major components are ...

Our System is designed and continously enhanced primarily with input from our customers in the Lawn & Garden/Nursery, and Pet retail markets. Software Programs: The Integra System is comprised of modular major software components that can be implemented separately, or combined to form a powerful fully integrated tailored solution for single sites or multiple locations. The major components are ...

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Tracing leaks of airborne radio-active, poisonous or flammable materials is a potentially dangerous activity that could be undertaken by robotic systems. This paper describes a practical investigation of the possibility of developing simple, low cost, autonomous robots to perform this task. It is envisaged that these robots would be used in large numbers. This would improve reliability through ...

We present a zipper-based instruction set for constructing genetic programming variation operators. We study the effects of such variation operators on the lawnmower problem. Operators in this language possess the ability to outperform standard mutation and crossover in terms of both decreasing the average population error as well as the best population error. Furthermore, the expression of sta...