Showing posts with label Python. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Python. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2018

How do you write the Kannada word ಅರಮನೆ using Python?

Kannada (South Indian language) characters have the Unicode range from 0C80-0CCF 

UTF-8 is Python's default encoding.


 Let us take a simple word:
ಕಲಹ
Which means 'quarrel'. The letters are simple and you could use their Unicode equivalents
using this chunk of code block.

To form the word we concatenate the characters as shown,



What about a word such as this, ಅರಮನೆ? (means Palace)
The first three letters are simple but the fourth letter is a rendering with a diacritic of a simple letter 'ನ'. The fourth letter requires concatenating the two shown above:

In order to form the word ಅರಮನೆ we need to do the following:




Friday, August 12, 2016

Meet Pepper, he can read your emotions...

Another 6 days to go, Pepper the humanoid robot that can sense emotions will be in Palo Alto store b8ta between August 11 and 18.


  Pepper2.png
Robot developed by SoftBank and a robotics company Aldebaran Robotics  was unveiled in 2014 and it can read human emotions and respond to them accordingly. For all the sophisticated features, it sells cheap, about $1900+. Pepper still needs battery and needs a charge after every 12 hours of use. It uses programming languages like C++, Python and Android.

It is a hot sell in Japan after it started selling in 2015, but may not come to USA any time soon as the local demand is high.

Because of its ability to read and respond to emotions it appears to be ideal for customer facing situations and has even gone on cruise ships to assist passengers.

The images are from Aldebaran's site.


Pepper.png

Read more about Pepper here:

https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/robot-invasion-softbanks-pepper-lands-in-the-us/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/softbank-aldebaran-launch-pepper-an-emotional-robot/