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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Watson Wannabes: 4 Open Source Projects For Machine Intelligence
Four groups have been developing IBM Watson-like systems based on open source work.
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Ccc Brain Workshop: Research Interfaces Between Brain Science and Computer Science
A recent workshop on the interfaces between brain research and computer science brought together neuroscientists and computer scientists over speeches and panel...
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Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Threat – Yet
New York University professor Gary Marcus says "superintelligent" machines are unlikely to arrive soon, but we already place a great deal of power in the hands...
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Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Two Robots, One Challenge, Endless Possibility
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing robots that can enter dangerous places.
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More-Flexible Digital Communication
Researchers say they have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate.
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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Toshiba Android Will Take You For a Trip Down the ncanny Valley
Researchers have developed Aiko Chihiro, a lifelike communication android.
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New Research Will Help Robots Know Their Limits
Three U.K. universities are teaming up to ensure future autonomous robots and systems will be safer, and capable of making decisions based on laws and ethics.
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Engineer Applies Robot Control Theory to Improve Prosthetic Legs
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to help amputees walk.
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to nderstand Emotions
Quoc Le sees the world as a series of numbers.
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Carnegie Mellon's Cobot Robots Reach 1,000-Kilometer Milestone of Autonomous Operation
Robots deployed at Carnegie Mellon University have collectively reached 1,000 kilometers of autonomous operation.
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Brain Inspired Data Engineering
IMDEA Networks launched the BRAin inspired Data Engineering (BRADE-CM) research project in October.
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Google Can Now Tell You're Not a Robot With Just One Click
When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program’s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer...
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MIT Engineers Have High Hopes For Cheetah Robot
A new cheetah-inspired robot can run on batteries at speeds of more than 10 miles per hour, jump about 16 inches high, land safely, and continue running for 15...
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Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking says he worries about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Firmer Footing For Robots With Smart Walking Sticks
The SupraPed robotic platform uses "smart staffs" inspired by walking sticks to better balance and move over uneven terrain.
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How Google 'translates' Pictures Into Words sing Vector Space Mathematics
Translating one language into another has always been a difficult task.
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