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TMCNet: Braintech Brings Out 2 New Edutainment Products

[May 11, 2008]

Braintech Brings Out 2 New Edutainment Products

(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Braintech announced its development and release of iSpot and BlueVision
products in an initiative to expand its commercial and consumer
products through the capabilities of the company's Volts-IQ Visual
Intelligence Software Suite.

The company said that iSpot software is capable of analyzing images
from a variety of cameras (e.g., USB, Wi-Fi) to provide intelligent
vision information to better define and navigate the camera scene.
BlueVision wireless camera is the first step by the Company into
manufacturing a hardware product as it offers a complete package in the
form of a small low power, Bluetooth wireless camera, which the Company
has designed and will bundle with its own iSpot software.

"We believe iSpot and BlueVision will bring Vision Guided Robotics to
the public in an innovative and exciting way," Braintech Chief
Executive Officer Rick Weidinger said. "Our creation will put people's
minds to work in creating new robotic applications that can be found at
home and school as well as in creative and productive applications in
the commercial space. The use of robotics outside of industry is not
widespread yet, but it has great potential to improve quality of life
and provide projects for the industrious mind."

Volts-IQ (an acronym for visual object location and tracking services)
was originally announced by Braintech in December, 2006, and is
developed out of the Microsoft Robotics Partner Program. It is designed
to support companies in their plan to develop, integrate and market
robotic software, devices and systems utilizing Microsoft's Robotics
Studio for commercial, hobbyist and academic developers in order to
create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms.

The proprietary iSpot Server provides a graphical user interface (GUI)
to robotic developers, commercial users and consumers with intuitive
point-and-click software. The software platform transforms iSpot's
Visual Intelligence into a product that can be used by virtually all
ages. The iSpot GUI allows users to set up visual interaction with USB,
Wi-Fi or other computer-enabled cameras.

The newly announced second product, the BlueVision wireless camera,
began development after Braintech's scientists realized the need for a
low-power consumption wireless camera sensor that could compliment
Volts-IQ in consumer and edutainment robotic development projects. It
is intended for mobile robotic and other intelligent applications. The

camera provides snapshots or video streams by capturing, digitizing and
transmitting data over a robust Bluetooth wireless link. When used in
conjunction with the iSpot Server, images from the camera can be
analyzed to provide visual intelligence to robots and other devices.

Uses for the iSpot and BlueVision products in this dramatically
increasing market are many. The task is to enhance consumer and
edutainment robotic applications with intelligent vision. To this end,
a robot or machine becomes visually aware of its surroundings and is
able to adjust and make decisions. It can recognize objects, faces,
motion, color, and targets. Example of scenarios: Someone walks in to
your room and it senses motion and then recognizes that it is not you;
it starts to record a video and sends it to you via email or SMS.
Another example: You use the object spotter to spot your sister's brown
cat when it enters the room and then use the motion spotter to track
the cat so you can pitch it a ball so it can play in and enjoy your
room.

"They're becoming such a reality, actually, that by the year 2015, the
market for personal robotics components will reach $12 billion,"
according to ABI Research.

"These vision intelligence and machine vision industries are becoming
so much fun. Soon we will not know the difference between play and work
at the office 12 hours a day," commented Weidinger.

((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))

((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com))

Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News

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