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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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Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover
The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...
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Humanoid Robot That Sees and Maps
New computer-vision algorithms enable the humanoid robot Roboray to build real-time three-dimensional visual maps for more efficient movement.
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Teaching a Computer to Play 'Concentration' Advances Security, nderstanding of the Human Mind
A new software designed to play the game Concentration could lead to better computer security and a greater understanding of how the human mind works.
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Move Over Messi, Here Come the Robots
More than 1,000 soccer-playing robots from 40 countries are competing against each other in the RoboCup soccer tournament.
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Nus Team Creates Realistic Robot Carp, First Robot Fish With Autonomous 3D Movement in Asia
A robot fish is ready to be programmed for specific functions, such as exploring the nooks and corners of wreckage for underwater archeology.
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Artificial Intellience in Mental Healthcare
The mental healthcare field is seeking to use artificial intelligent agents to provide training, consultation, and treatment services.
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Siri’s Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative
SRI International has created a predictive assistant called Bright that reduces cognitive overload by providing specific information at the right time.
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Robo-Pets May Contribute to Quality of Life For Those With Dementia
Therapeutic robot companions improve anxiety and the quality of life for people with mid- to late-stage dementia, according to a pilot study.
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Researcher Dreams p Machines That Learn Without Humans
Yoshua Bengio recently had a vision—a vision of how to build computers that learn like people do.
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nderwater Drones Are Multiplying Fast
The next army of unmanned drones are scurrying beneath the ocean's surface.
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Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.
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All the Items Fit to Print
3-D printing has come of age. It promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries and profoundly change the way people buy and consume.
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What the Digital Brains of the Future Might Be Like
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...
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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...
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3D Printing Powered By Thought
It's definitely not a bird. Nor is it a plane. The garish orange piece of plastic, small enough to hold in the palm of a hand, could pass for a missing limb of...
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
A researcher is trying to make deep learning more accessible to researchers.
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
The Tempest—wingspan 3.2 metres, cruising speed 75 knots—was designed to fly into severe storms.
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
Andrew Ng wants to bring deep learning—an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software into the DIY era.
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