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Lessons From Cockroaches Could Inform Robotics
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Lessons From Cockroaches Could Inform Robotics

Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in, researchers have found. These insights could help...

A New 'virtual Moderator' Helps Reach Consensus in Troubled Negotiations
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A New 'virtual Moderator' Helps Reach Consensus in Troubled Negotiations

A new fuzzy ontology-based system can help with decision-making, according to researchers at the University of Granada and Abo Akademi.  

Humans and Robots Work Better Together Following Cross-Training
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Humans and Robots Work Better Together Following Cross-Training

Swapping roles improves the performance of robots and human teammates working side-by-side.

Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?
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Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?

For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...

Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers
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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers

Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...

NASA's 'Crazy' Robot Lab
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NASA's 'Crazy' Robot Lab

It's three in the afternoon, and in their NASA lab in Silicon Valley, California, two engineers are playing with a toy designed for toddlers.

Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market

When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.

Drone Home
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Drone Home

A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...

Award Will Accelerate Research on ­AV Simulations ­sing Supercomputers
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Award Will Accelerate Research on ­AV Simulations ­sing Supercomputers

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Wu Feng, associate professor at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues a project to improve the simulation speed...

Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

Cornell Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence
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Cornell Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence

 By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as...

The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins
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The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins

The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple's Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite.

Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
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Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros

Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros (U.S. $1.34 billion) each were announced...

The Job Market of 2045
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The Job Market of 2045

Rice University professor Moshe Vardi predicts that by 2045 artificial intelligence machines will be able to perform a significant percentage of human work. "We...

Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company

Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.

IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave

At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.

Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe

The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...

Andrew Schwartz: Brain Control For Artificial Limbs
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Andrew Schwartz: Brain Control For Artificial Limbs

When Jan Scheuermann grasped a chocolate bar and raised it to her mouth last year, it was a neuroscience breakthrough.

Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car

Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...

Machine Perception Lab Shows Child-Like Robot on Video
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Machine Perception Lab Shows Child-Like Robot on Video

The world is getting its first glimpse at a new humanoid robot in action mimicking the expressions of a one-year-old child. The robot will be used in studies on...
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