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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Approach Trains Robots to Match Human Dexterity and Speed
In an engineering laboratory here, a robot has learned to screw the cap on a bottle, even figuring out the need to apply a subtle backward twist to find the thread...
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Mit's Humanoid Robot Goes to Robot Boot Camp
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.
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Wolfram's Id Project Launch Touts Imageidentify Function
Wolfram Research's artificial intelligence-based Language Identification Project is equipped with an ImageIdentify function.
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Between the Lines
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...
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Hacking the Brain
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...
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Predictive Analytics Provides Powerful Benefits to Healthcare
Medical treatment is on the verge of a "radical transformation" thanks to statistical data analysis techniques that predict future outcomes.
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Computers Harness Language Translation
Statistical machine-translation technologies developed at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have helped the Army become less reliant on human translators.
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Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans...
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Say Hello to Machines That Read Your Emotions to Make You Happy
EmoSPARK is an artificial intelligence-based device that can gauge a person's mood based on what they say and how they say it.
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What a Dinosaur's Mating Scream Sounds Like
Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy...
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Baidu's Artificial-Intelligence Supercomputer Beats Google at Image Recognition
Chinese search giant Baidu says it has invented a powerful supercomputer that brings new muscle to an artificial-intelligence technique giving software more power...
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Robots, Hungry for Power, Are Too Weak to Take Over the World
Today's robots may just be too hungry and unfit to take over the world any time soon.
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How Daimler Built the World's First Self-Driving Semi
Christian Urban waves his hands to make a point, then looks at his nails and cracks wise about needing a manicure.
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Google's Self-Driving Cars of Tomorrow Face the Mean Streets of Today
Google says its self-driving cars will be good for road safety because they can pay better attention to the road than humans do.
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Even Robots Now Have Their Own Virtual World
In a month's time, a motley assortment of robots will attempt to navigate a punishing obstacle course laid out in a fairground park in Pomona, California.
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Nasa Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts For Further Study
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...
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