Nexi is a robot developed by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She visited the Milano Senior Center in Melrose this week to allow her developers to conduct research on how she — the robot — interacts with seniors.
Jun Ki Lee, a researcher with the Personal Robots Group at MIT’s Media Lab in Cambridge, said Nexi is an MDS robot — Mobile, Dexterous and Social — meaning that she can move around on wheels (mobile) and pick up objects (dexterous). The “social” aspect comes from Nexi’s unique face, which is modeled after an actual human face, complete with eyes with eyelids, eyebrows and a mouth — all of which helped her land at number 17 on Time magazine’s list of the “Best Inventions of 2008.”
Truly amazing!
fredag 21. august 2009
mandag 17. august 2009
Business Model Innovation in the Public Sector
Check out the slideshare below. It demonstrates how visualization of a business model can highlight essential improvement possibilities. It is interesting to reflect on how technological infrastructure changes can dramatically innovate a public sector business model.
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