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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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Bison Enables Complex Nuclear Fuel Modeling, Simulation
BISON is a new software designed to make it easier for researchers to gain insight into processes they would not otherwise have resources to simulate.
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How the Fifa 14 Soccer Video Game Finally Got Its Physics Right
When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale last week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air.
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Roboy is a four-foot-tall humanoid robot with a set of muscles inspired by the human musculoskeletal system.
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.
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Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.
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Human Robot Getting Closer
Researchers are implementing the cognitive process of the human brain in robots, which could lead to the development of the latest version of the iCub robot.
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Software Helps Linguists Reconstruct, Decipher Ancient Languages
Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.
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The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg sing Thought Alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...
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Military Lags in Push For Robotic Ground Vehicles
While private companies are moving forward with self-driving vehicles, the U.S. military has been slow to deploy the technology.
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Empty F-16 Jet Tested By Boeing and .s. Air Force
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.
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Music Site Chatbot Wins AI Loebner Contest
A chatbot called Mitsuku was judged most convincingly human artificial intelligence program of the contestants in the Loebner contest.
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Robots Take Over
A recent study suggests that for periods of less than one second, the financial world becomes a cyberenvironment inhabited by packs of aggressive trading algorithms...
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Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice
GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta.
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How Robots Can Trick You Into Loving Them
I like to think of my Roomba as cute and industrious.
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Moose Enables 'plug and Play' Simulations
Idaho National Laboratory researchers are developing MOOSE, a software framework for simulating the behavior of complex systems.
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Tough Robo-Challenge Casts Robots as Rescuers
Global robotics specialists are competing to design a robot that can perform emergency-response duties during disasters.
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Tiny Recon Robots Herald New Generation of Drones
Ex-U.S. Marine Ernest Langdon pulls a pin and throws a small black object onto the ground. But it doesn't explode.
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
Artificial intelligence research has advanced significantly, but much work remains before computers can truly replicate or surpass human intelligence.
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