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In the Virtual Cockpit: What It Takes to Fly a Drone
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In the Virtual Cockpit: What It Takes to Fly a Drone

Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There's no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to...

Flipperbot Reveals Principles of Motion
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Flipperbot Reveals Principles of Motion

Researchers studied sea turtles and a robot with flippers, called FlipperBot, to learn principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such...

Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...

'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley

It doesn't look like much.

Crash Course: Training the Brain of a Driverless Car
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Crash Course: Training the Brain of a Driverless Car

Early attempts at driverless cars have had little difficulty gathering the loads of data required to operate autonomously.

Autonomous Modular Datacenter Takes to the Sea
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Autonomous Modular Datacenter Takes to the Sea

Not every datacenter is comprised of a large building stuff full of computers. In the case of Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider SV3, the datacenter is an autonomous...

Avatars, Virtual Classroom Aid as Teacher Preparation Tools
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Avatars, Virtual Classroom Aid as Teacher Preparation Tools

Student teacher candidates at Southeastern Louisiana University are practicing their skills in a virtual classroom before having to experience the real thing.

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Technique Finds Software Bugs in Surgical Robots And Helps Developers Fix Flaws, Ensure Safety

Surgical robots could make some types of surgery safer and more effective, but proving that the software controlling these machines works as intended is problematic...

Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'
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Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'

d Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for...

Businesses Bet on Iron Man-Like Exoskeletons
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Businesses Bet on Iron Man-Like Exoskeletons

In the 1960s, the Incredible Hulk rose to fame as Marvel Comics' green mutant antihero with superhuman strength and some serious anger issues.

States Answer Help Wanted Ad to Be Drone Test Site
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States Answer Help Wanted Ad to Be Drone Test Site

It's the land where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, where the space shuttle fleet rolled off the assembly line and where the first private manned rocketship...

So It Begins: DARPA Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
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So It Begins: DARPA Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves

The Pentagon's blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves—while...

Terradynamics Predicts Robot Motion on Granular Surfaces
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Terradynamics Predicts Robot Motion on Granular Surfaces

Using a combination of theory and experiment, researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots — and potentially...

Why It's Time For Our Devices to ­nderstand What We Mean, Not Just What We Say
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Why It's Time For Our Devices to ­nderstand What We Mean, Not Just What We Say

It wasn’t just cost and Moore’s law. The graphical user interface—now known as the GUI ("gooey")—is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous...

Robot Meets World
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Robot Meets World

A new way of reasoning about what happens when a robot’s limb strikes an object could lead to more efficient and reliable robotic-control systems.

Robots to Spur ­.s. Economy, Improve Quality of Life, Report Says
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Robots to Spur ­.s. Economy, Improve Quality of Life, Report Says

A group of more than 160 experts from universities, industry, and government came together to evaluate the use of robotics across various applications. They will...

The Secret of the Wonder Weapon That Israel Will Show Off to Obama
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The Secret of the Wonder Weapon That Israel Will Show Off to Obama


Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning

Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.

MIT 'cheetah' Robot Rivals Running Animals in Efficiency
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MIT 'cheetah' Robot Rivals Running Animals in Efficiency

MIT custom designed electric motors for the four-legged cheetah-bot robot to minimize energy waste and improve efficiency.

Connecting the Neural Dots
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Connecting the Neural Dots

In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...
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