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Happy Birthday to Moore's Law
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Happy Birthday to Moore's Law

Few revolutions can be said to have lasted for half a century, or to have wrought disruptive change at a predictable pace.

Uv Light Robot to Clean Hospital Rooms Could Help Stop Spread of 'superbugs'
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Uv Light Robot to Clean Hospital Rooms Could Help Stop Spread of 'superbugs'

Researchers are studying the effectiveness of a germ-zapping robot to clean hospital rooms, which could prevent the spread of "superbugs" — saving countless dollars...

Ibm Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer's Controversial Brain Algorithms
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Ibm Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer's Controversial Brain Algorithms

For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...

Will This One-Armed Robot Put You Out of a Job?
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Will This One-Armed Robot Put You Out of a Job?

Sawyer the one-armed robot can do many things.

Graphics in Reverse
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Graphics in Reverse

MIT researchers will demonstrate at an upcoming conference that probabilistic programming can be competitive with conventional programs created with thousands of...

Planes Without Pilots
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Planes Without Pilots

Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...

Autonomous Robots Race in MIT Tunnels
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Autonomous Robots Race in MIT Tunnels

Fully autonomous 1:10-scale model cars navigating through MIT's underground tunnels in a robot race this past January, with the winning team's vehicle running at...

Exoskeleton Improves Efficiency of Human Walking
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Exoskeleton Improves Efficiency of Human Walking

An unpowered exoskeleton developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and North Carolina State helps individuals walk using less energy.

Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities

Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.

AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans

Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.

For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains

Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.

Researchers Use Unmanned Aircraft to Inspect Energy Pipeline Route
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Researchers Use Unmanned Aircraft to Inspect Energy Pipeline Route

A test flight using a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to inspect an energy pipeline route was completed last week at Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia...

­nmanned Aerial Systems Will Detect Pests, Diseases in Food Crops
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­nmanned Aerial Systems Will Detect Pests, Diseases in Food Crops

Kansas State University is leading an international, multimillion-dollar project that is looking at unmanned aerial systems to detect pest insects and diseases...

Teaching Robots to Be Moral
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Teaching Robots to Be Moral

"Chappie," the highest-grossing movie in America last weekend, is, to put it mildly, not a great film; the critics have given it a twenty-nine on Rotten Tomatoes...

If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
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If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?

Let me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you're reading. Maybe you're right. Maybe not.

Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project

Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...

Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
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Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality

"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.

Twenty-Five Teams to Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
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Twenty-Five Teams to Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

Twenty-five teams from the international robotics community will compete for $3.5 million in prizes in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, a test of capabilities ...

Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge

When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...

Better Machine Learning
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Better Machine Learning

Research scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni is tackling some of the bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.
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