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Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch ­dacity

Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...

Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots
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Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots

Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.

Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform For Medical Robotics Research
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Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform For Medical Robotics Research

Seven identical robots created and built at the UW will be flown to campuses across the country, where they will provide the first common research platform to develop...

Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA
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Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors...

Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...

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First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside Sri's Amazing R&d

Who invented Siri?

Flight of the Warbots
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Flight of the Warbots

How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.

Medical Robotics Experts Advance Nasa 'satellite Surgery' Project
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Medical Robotics Experts Advance Nasa 'satellite Surgery' Project

Johns Hopkins University engineers are applying their expertise with medical robotics to show NASA how to fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running...

Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
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Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations

Paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy and colleagues have developed artificial neural network models that predict prime locations to search for fossils.

Reading, Writing and Robotics: Bringing Cultural Education to Texas School Districts
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Reading, Writing and Robotics: Bringing Cultural Education to Texas School Districts

VGo, a sleek white remotely-controlled robot , will soon be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich cultural education for children in grades K-12 across...

Students ­se Futuristic Technology to Dive Into the Past
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Students ­se Futuristic Technology to Dive Into the Past

A new partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Watermen's Museum in historic Yorktown Virginia lets schoolchildren use robotic subs...

More Jobs Predicted For Machines, Not People
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More Jobs Predicted For Machines, Not People

A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, according to two researchers at the...

Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges

During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...

Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch
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Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch

A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated...

'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids
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'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids

Plans to develop the "smart" grid cannot succeed without the creation of new "thinking machines" that can learn and adapt to new situations, says Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy...

WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation
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WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation

Four years after the launching a robotics engineering program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the only university in the United States with bachelor's, master's...

Ready For the Robot Revolution?
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?

Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...

AI Demo Shows How Chatbots Soon Sink Into Non Sequiturs and Nonsense
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AI Demo Shows How Chatbots Soon Sink Into Non Sequiturs and Nonsense

An exchange between two robot avatars set up as a demonstration for an artificial intelligence class at Cornell University quickly devolved into conversational...

Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World
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Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World

As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course

A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...
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