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Google's Peter Norvig: 'I Have the Best Job in the World'
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Google's Peter Norvig: 'I Have the Best Job in the World'

Google's director of research talks artificial intelligence, personal computing, mapping, and what the Internet giant is planning next.

How a Soccer Robot Led to a Mathematician's Non-Reversing Mirror
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How a Soccer Robot Led to a Mathematician's Non-Reversing Mirror

When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself in reverse. But one odd mirror invented by mathematics professor R. Andrew Hicks at Drexel University shows...

Driving Drones Can Be a Drag
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Driving Drones Can Be a Drag

Study shows distractions may alleviate boredom and improve drone operators' performance.

The True State of Artificial Intelligence
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The True State of Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Korb, from Monash University's Clayton School of Information Technology, will be discussing what stage artificial intelligence has reached in an upcoming...

Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving
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Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving

While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...

DARPA Throws Down Gauntlet to Human-Style Robots
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DARPA Throws Down Gauntlet to Human-Style Robots

The DARPA Robotics Challenge, one of the most rigorous tests of robotic ability ever conceived, kicked off last week. The contest sets teams of engineers from around...

5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab
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5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab

You probably expect all the latest and greatest high-tech gear to be out in force at the MIT Media Lab innovation complex. And you’d be right. Holograms? Check....

Robots in the Home: Will Older Adults Roll Out the Welcome Mat?
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Robots in the Home: Will Older Adults Roll Out the Welcome Mat?

Robots have the potential to help older adults with daily activities that can become more challenging with age. But are people willing to use and accept the new...

Drivers' Ed for Robots
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Drivers' Ed for Robots

How do you teach a robot to get into vehicle and drive it? Three University of Delaware professors plan to figure it out as part of a team competing in a new U...

Training Your Robot the Par-Par Way
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Training Your Robot the Par-Par Way

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute have developed a biology-friendly, easy-to-use robot programming language...

Shark Social Networking
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Shark Social Networking

University of Delaware researchers are using an underwater robot to find and follow sand tiger sharks that they previously tagged with transmitters. The project...

Tufts Graduate Program Will Focus on Soft-Bodied Robots
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Tufts Graduate Program Will Focus on Soft-Bodied Robots

A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Tufts University will help launch an interdisciplinary graduate program to enable scientists and engineers...

Why Becoming a Data Scientist Might Be Easier than You Think
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Why Becoming a Data Scientist Might Be Easier than You Think

Several novice programmers who signed up for a free machine-learning class on Coursera have gone on recently to win predictive-modeling competitions.

What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?
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What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?

What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? The scientists and researchers at DARPA and the White House Office...

Robots ­sing Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'macgyver' Robot
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Robots ­sing Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'macgyver' Robot

A Georgia Tech research team has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research to work on a project that intends to teach robots how to use objects in their...

Research Predicts Combo Warning, Braking Systems on Autos Will Help Save Lives
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Research Predicts Combo Warning, Braking Systems on Autos Will Help Save Lives

Virginia Tech researchers studying rear-end collisions determined that 7.7 percent of such crashes would be prevented by use of three intelligent vehicle systems...

Ibm's Ginni Rometty Looks Ahead
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Ibm's Ginni Rometty Looks Ahead

Ginni Rometty's first customer conference as CEO of IBM was an unusual affair, especially by Big Blue's buttoned-up standards.

Meet the Man Who Gave the Mars Rover Its Eyes
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Meet the Man Who Gave the Mars Rover Its Eyes

Iconic pictures from the latest mission to the Red Planet are coming courtesy of space-imaging expert Michael Malin.

Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality

The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.

Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation
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Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation

Using a novel method of integrating video technology and familiar control devices, a research team from Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute is...
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