Watched Before Sunset. thanks to umang for recommending it :-). Its just 80 minutes of conversation without any time slips. The movie revolves around a chance meeting between Jesse, an author and Celine, an environmentalist at Paris, 9 years after they had a met only for a day at Venice. The movie seems to be freaking real, as if the characters would ( Read more... )

I got interested in self-reconfigurable robots towards the end of my engineering after reading a paper on Millibots developed at CMU, in an IEEE publication ( Read more... )

well, here i am

http://jd.roboteers.net/

Never before have i felt so satisfied. I watched the whole Live 8 show, *live*, from 6:30pm to around 5am. And Boy, wasn't i breathless when Floyd was on stage. Dunno what was there about their 25mins on stage, but i was feeling totally awed ( Read more... )

i am trying to find out about universities at the frontiers of robotics research. Can anyone provide me with some info on the prospects of MS at Japan?

also, general info on other universities around the world doing serious robotics stuff. my interests are mainly distributed/collaborative robotics, self-reconfigurable robots...

sigh. life is so darned dis-illusioning at times

Yesterday we played at the finals of Unmaad, the IIMB cul-fest. Phenom with its new lineup needs more practice to deliver a tight performance. However, over the last weekend, having played on 3 occasions i realised something else ( Read more... )

I am the King of Procrastination

Over the past few months i have been dreaming about several abstract ideas. Its sad that i have been able to start work on only one of them. Lack of a good lab, lack of time. Even when i have time, lack of energy ( Read more... )

seems we are now a year closer to the end of the world :-p